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In the study of natural and artificial complex systems, responses that are not completely determined by the considered decision variables are commonly modelled probabilistically, resulting in response distributions varying across decision…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-07 Athénaïs Gautier , David Ginsbourger , Guillaume Pirot

There are some real life issues that are exists in nature which has early failure. This type of problems can be modelled either by a complex distribution having more than one parameter or by finite mixture of some distribution. In this…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Brijesh P. Singh , Utpal Dhar Das , Sandeep Singh

Recent innovations in diffusion probabilistic models have paved the way for significant progress in image, text and audio generation, leading to their applications in generative time series forecasting. However, leveraging such abilities to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Yuansan Liu , Sudanthi Wijewickrema , Dongting Hu , Christofer Bester , Stephen O'Leary , James Bailey

The theory of probability, based on very general rules referred to as the Cox-Polya-Jaynes Desiderata, can be used both as a theory of random mass phenomena and as a quantitative theory of plausible inference about the parameters of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-05-19 Tomaz Podobnik , Tomi Zivko

Diffusion probabilistic models have quickly become a major approach for generative modeling of images, 3D geometry, video and other domains. However, to adapt diffusion generative modeling to these domains the denoising network needs to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Peiye Zhuang , Samira Abnar , Jiatao Gu , Alex Schwing , Joshua M. Susskind , Miguel Ángel Bautista

A flexible model is developed for multivariate generalized spherical distributions, i.e. ones with level sets that are star shaped. To work in dimension above 2 requires tools from computational geometry and multivariate numerical…

Computation · Statistics 2015-10-26 John P Nolan

Structured prediction provides a general framework to deal with supervised problems where the outputs have semantically rich structure. While classical approaches consider finite, albeit potentially huge, output spaces, in this paper we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-27 Alessandro Rudi , Carlo Ciliberto , Gian Maria Marconi , Lorenzo Rosasco

We propose and analyze an algorithm to approximate distribution functions and densities of perpetuities. Our algorithm refines an earlier approach based on iterating discretized versions of the fixed point equation that defines the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-11-08 Margarete Knape , Ralph Neininger

The first part is expository: it explains how finite fields may be used to prove theorems on infinite fields by a reduction mod p process. The second part gives a variant of P.Smith's fixed point theorem which applies in any characteristic.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-03-25 Jean-Pierre Serre

Matrices are very popular and widely used in mathematics and other fields of science. Every mathematician has known the properties of finite-sized matrices since the time of study. In this paper, we consider the basic theory of infnite…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Lukasz Matysiak , Weronika Przewozniak , Natalia Rulinska

The technique of wrapping of a univariate probability distribution is very effective in getting a circular form of the underlying density. In this article, we introduce the circular (wrapped) version of xgamma distribution and study its…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-03-04 Hazem Al-Mofleh , Subhradev Sen

In this note, we define a Gaussian probability distribution over matrices. We prove some useful properties of this distribution, namely, the fact that marginalization, conditioning, and affine transformations preserve the matrix Gaussian…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-22 Shane Barratt

This article introduces new methods for inference with count data registered on a set of aggregation units. Such data are omnipresent in epidemiology due to confidentiality issues: it is much more common to know the county in which an…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-20 Benjamin M. Taylor , Ricardo Andrade-Pacheco , Hugh J. W. Sturrock

We use spectral theory and algebraic geometry to establish a higher-degree analogue of a Szemer\'edi--Trotter-type theorem over finite fields, with an application to polynomial expansion.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Nuno Arala , Sam Chow

Hyper-differential sensitivity analysis with respect to model discrepancy was recently developed to enable uncertainty quantification for optimization problems. The approach consists of two primary steps: (i) Bayesian calibration of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Joseph Hart , Bart van Bloemen Waanders , Jixian Li , Timbwaoga A. J. Ouermi , Chris R. Johnson

Learning of a smooth but nonparametric probability density can be regularized using methods of Quantum Field Theory. We implement a field theoretic prior numerically, test its efficacy, and show that the data and the phase space factors…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilya Nemenman , William Bialek

Characterizations of paracompact finite $C$-spaces via continuous selections are given. We apply these results to obtain some properties of finite $C$-spaces. Factorization theorems and a completion theorem for finite $C$- spaces are also…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Vesko Valov

This paper is concerned with the theoretical understanding of $\alpha$-stable sheets $U$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$. Our motivation for this is in the context of Bayesian inverse problems, where we consider these processes as prior distributions,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-13 Neil K. Chada , Sari Lasanen , Lassi Roininen

Motivated by the need, in some Bayesian likelihood free inference problems, of imputing a multivariate counting distribution based on its vector of means and variance-covariance matrix, we define a generic multivariate discrete…

Applications · Statistics 2011-03-28 Marcos Capistrán , J. Andrés Christen

The concept of cutting is first explicitly introduced. By the concept, a convex expansion for finite distributive lattices is considered. Thus, a more general method for drawing the Hasse diagram is given, and the rank generating function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-30 Xu Wang , Xuxu Zhao , Haiyuan Yao