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This paper establishes the theoretical foundations for the asymptotic separability of Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) in high dimensions by extending the classical Feldman-H\'ajek theorem. We first prove that a countable mixture of Gaussian…
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By fixing all parameters in a phylogenetic likelihood model except for one branch length, one obtains a one-dimensional likelihood function. In this work, we introduce a mathematical framework to characterize the shapes of such…
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In Soda'06, Chaudhuri, Chen, Mihaescu and Rao study algorithmic properties of the tandem duplication - random loss model of genome rearrangement, well-known in evolutionary biology. In their model, the cost of one step of duplication-loss…
A method based on mapping a symbolic sequence into a set of patterns (strings resulting from the sequence parsing) is proposed as a tool for the reconstruction of ancestral sequences. The set union of patterns comprises all the patterns…
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A fundamental tool in topological data analysis is persistent homology, which allows extraction of information from complex datasets in a robust way. Persistent homology assigns a module over a principal ideal domain to a one-parameter…
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We show that a broad class of $(+,\diamond)$ vector products (for binary integer functions $\diamond$) are equivalent under one-to-polylog reductions to the computation of the Hamming distance. Examples include: the dominance product, the…