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48 results for Gaussian measures

Study on geometric Jensen-Shannon divergence for Gaussian measures in Hilbert space.

problem Computing divergence between Gaussian measures in infinite-dimensional Hilbert space.
method Closed form expression and regularization for divergence calculation.
result Closed form expression and regularization for Geometric Jensen-Shannon divergence.

Study convergence and approximations of entropic regularized Wasserstein distances for Gaussian and RKHS measures.

problem Convergence and approximations of entropic regularized Wasserstein distances in Gaussian and RKHS settings.
method Analysis of convergence and finite sample approximations of entropic regularized Wasserstein distances in Gaussian and RKHS settings.
result Strictly weaker convergence in 2-Sinkhorn divergence for Gaussian measures compared to exact 2-Wasserstein distance.

The space of Gaussian measures on a Euclidean space is geodesically convex in the L2L^2-Wasserstein space. This space is a finite dimensional manifold since Gaussian measures are parameterized by means and covariance matrices. By restricting to the space of Gaussian measures inside the L2L^2-Wasserstein space, we manag…

2008-01-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Study entropic regularization of Gaussian measures and processes on Hilbert space.

problem Regularizing 2-Wasserstein distance for infinite-dimensional Gaussian measures and processes.
method Minimum Mutual Information property, closed form formulas, Fréchet differentiability, Sinkhorn barycenter equation.
result Entropic 2-Wasserstein distance and Sinkhorn divergence are Fréchet differentiable in Hilbert space.

Study on conditioning Gaussian measures on nonlinear observations, including representer theorem and mode estimation.

problem Conditioning Gaussian measures on nonlinear observations in Bayesian inference and machine learning.
method Representer theorem, novel mode definition, maximum a posteriori estimation, Laplace approximation.
result Identification of infinite-dimensional Gaussian and finite-dimensional non-Gaussian components in conditioned measures.

Study non-Gaussian measures' concentration properties in metric spaces.

problem Concentration properties for non-linear Gaussian functionals with non-Gaussian tails.
method Prove generalised Transportation-Cost Inequalities (TCIs) for specific functionals.
result Extended TCIs for rough volatility and Parabolic Anderson Model.

Paper presents characteristic function of Tsallis q-Gaussian and its applications.

problem Modeling input quantities in measurement models using Tsallis q-Gaussians.
method Developed a characteristic function and proposed a numerical method for its inversion.
result Exact probability distribution of output quantities can be determined.

Real-world measurement noise in applications like robotics is often correlated in time, but we typically assume i.i.d. Gaussian noise for filtering. We propose general Gaussian Processes as a non-parametric model for correlated measurement noise that is flexible enough to accurately reflect correlation in time, yet sim…

2019-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Method identifies low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional probability measures.

problem Identifying low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional probability measures.
method Extends prior work on minimizing majorizations of the Kullback-Leibler divergence to identify optimal approximations within a specific class of measures.
result Connection between dimensional logarithmic Sobolev inequality and approximations with the ansatz.

This study describes the Fisher-Rao metric on Gaussian measures in infinite-dimensional spaces.

problem Understanding the Fisher-Rao metric in infinite-dimensional Gaussian settings.
method Explicit description and generalization of finite-dimensional quantities to infinite-dimensional Hilbert spaces.
result The Fisher-Rao metric and related geometric quantities generalize from finite to infinite dimensions.

FPI methods compute barycenters of Gaussian sets for various dissimilarity measures.

problem Efficiently compute barycenters of Gaussian sets for multiple dissimilarity measures.
method Fixed-Point Iterations (FPI) for several dissimilarity measures.
result FPI provides a useful toolbox for fusion/reduction of Gaussian sets.

A qq-Gaussian measure is a generalization of a Gaussian measure. This generalization is obtained by replacing the exponential function with the power function of exponent 1/(1q)1/(1-q) (q1q\neq 1). The limit case q=1q=1 recovers a Gaussian measure. For 1q<31\leq q <3, the set of all qq-Gaussian densities over the real line …

2020-02-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes a new framework for accurate uncertainty representation and propagation.

problem Inaccurate representation and propagation of uncertainty in measurement systems.
method The paper introduces a comprehensive framework using Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) for representing and propagating quantitative attributes in measurement systems.
result GMMs offer improved accuracy in representing and propagating measurement uncertainty compared to traditional Gaussian methods, while maintaining computational tractability.

Extends Gaussian process theory to Banach spaces.

problem Extending Gaussian process theory to Banach spaces.
method Investigates the connection between Gaussian processes and Gaussian random elements in reproducing kernel Banach spaces.
result Characterizes positive definite functions that arise from covariance operators in Banach space setting.

The paper analyzes Laplace learning for Gaussian measure data in infinite dimensions, proving convergence.

problem Analyzing Laplace learning for infinite-dimensional Gaussian measure data.
method Minimizes Dirichlet energy on a graph constructed from the full dataset.
result Proves pointwise convergence of the graph Dirichlet energy for Gaussian measure data.

Kernel embeddings separate distinct probability distributions, simplifying testing.

problem Testing equality of non-atomic probability distributions.
method Kernel covariance embeddings and Gaussian measures in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.
result Testing for singularity between Gaussian measures is equivalent to testing for equality of non-atomic probability distributions.

Paper introduces a new distance measure for Gaussian Mixture Models.

problem Developing a new distance measure for Gaussian Mixture Models.
method Embedding K-component Gaussian Mixture Models into the manifold of symmetric positive definite matrices and calculating a lower bound for the Fisher-Rao metric.
result Demonstrated effectiveness through experiments on standard datasets.

The study analyzes the evolution of Gaussian measures under a specific gradient flow.

problem Analyzing the evolution of Gaussian measures under a specific gradient flow.
method Derives ordinary differential equations governing the evolution of mean, covariance, and mass under the HK-Boltzmann gradient flow.
result Exponential convergence to equilibrium demonstrated through Polyak-Lojasiewicz-type inequalities.

This paper deals with chain graphs under the classic Lauritzen-Wermuth-Frydenberg interpretation. We prove that the regular Gaussian distributions that factorize with respect to a chain graph GG with dd parameters have positive Lebesgue measure with respect to Rd\mathbb{R}^d, whereas those that factorize with respect…

2010-08-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Gaussian random vectors exhibit the loss of dimension phenomena, which relate to their joint survival tail behaviour. Besides, the fact that the components of such vectors are light-tailed complicates the approximations of various multivariate risk measures significantly. In this contribution we derive precise approxim…

2018-03-14abs ↗pdf ↗

This work studies Gaussian geometry under entropy-regularized 2-Wasserstein distance.

problem Understanding Gaussian distributions in uncertainty quantification and diffusivity.
method Entropy-regularized 2-Wasserstein distance, closed-form solutions, fixed-point characterization.
result Closed-form expressions for the 2-Sinkhorn divergence and fixed-point barycenter.

New method detects causal relationships from noisy measurements.

problem Discover causal relationships from noisy, imperfect measurements.
method Transformed Independent Noise (TIN) condition and ordered group decomposition.
result Identifies causal graph structure without over-complete ICA.

Novel method uses Gaussian process to estimate particle sizes from scattering data.

problem Estimating particle size distributions from noisy optical scattering measurements.
method Constrained Gaussian process regression with normalization constraints.
result Accurately reconstructs particle size distributions from noisy data.

This paper addresses Gaussian Process regression over probability measures, revealing a non-stationarity issue between Euclidean and Wasserstein kernels.

problem Non-stationarity issue between Euclidean and Wasserstein kernels in Gaussian Process regression over probability measures.
method Assuming Euclidean input space, applying algebraic transformation based on uncovered non-stationarity relationship to create a non-stationary and Wasserstein-based Gaussian Process model.
result An algebraic transformation simplifies learning a non-stationary Gaussian Process model over probability measures.

This work proposes new methods for variational inference using gradient flows on Gaussian measures.

problem Developing algorithmic guarantees for variational inference.
method Proposes principled methods for variational inference using gradient flows on the Bures--Wasserstein space of Gaussian measures.
result Strong theoretical guarantees for log-concave posteriors.

This work extends entropic optimal transport to non-product reference couplings, focusing on Gaussian cases.

problem Finding a diffuse coupling between two measures with non-product reference couplings.
method Reduction of the entropic optimal transport problem to a matrix optimization problem.
result Complete description of the solution for non-product reference couplings, including primal and dual variables.

A new method optimizes robustness measures under input uncertainty using randomized Gaussian process upper confidence bound.

problem Optimizing robustness measures under input uncertainty.
method Randomized robustness measure GP-UCB (RRGP-UCB) that samples β from a chi-squared-based distribution.
result RRGP-UCB provides tight bounds on expected regret.

Agents learn state ambiguity from non-linear sensor data using Gaussian approximations.

problem Learning state representation from non-linear sensor data.
method Second-order Taylor approximation of Gaussian distribution for non-linear measurement functions.
result Induces a preference for states based on inferability from observations.

Many sensors, such as range, sonar, radar, GPS and visual devices, produce measurements which are contaminated by outliers. This problem can be addressed by using fat-tailed sensor models, which account for the possibility of outliers. Unfortunately, all estimation algorithms belonging to the family of Gaussian filters…

2015-09-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum neural networks converge to Gaussian processes as they grow.

problem Understanding the convergence of quantum neural networks to Gaussian processes.
method Analyzing Haar random unitary and orthogonal deep QNNs, considering input states, measurement observables, and non-independence of unitary matrix entries.
result Quantum neural networks outputs converge to Gaussian processes in the limit of large Hilbert space dimension.

It is shown that mm disjoint sets with fixed Gaussian volumes that partition Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} with minimum Gaussian surface area must be (m1)(m-1)-dimensional. This follows from a second variation argument using infinitesimal translations. The special case m=3m=3 proves the Double Bubble problem for the Gaussian measure,…

2018-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Random Gaussian fields on 4D Riemannian manifolds with conformal invariance.

problem Characterizing and analyzing Gaussian fields on 4D Riemannian manifolds.
method Constructing and analyzing co-biharmonic Gaussian fields with covariance kernels defined by the Paneitz operator.
result Rigorous derivation of quantum Liouville measure for γ<8|γ|<\sqrt8.

We prove that the ring $\Aff{\R}{M}$ of all polynomials defined on a real algebraic variety MRnM\subset\R^n is dense in the Hilbert space $L^2(M,e^{-|x|^2}\deμ)$, where $\deμ$ denotes the volume form of MM and $\deν=e^{-|x|^2}\deμ$ the Gaussian measure on MM.

1998-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We investigate the low-dimensional structure of deterministic transformations between random variables, i.e., transport maps between probability measures. In the context of statistics and machine learning, these transformations can be used to couple a tractable "reference" measure (e.g., a standard Gaussian) with a tar…

2017-03-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian framework predicts aerodynamic uncertainty from sparse measurements.

problem Calibrating aerodynamic models with sparse and uncertain measurements.
method Bayesian latent Gaussian process for surrogate model calibration.
result Calibrated surrogate model accurately predicts aerodynamic uncertainty.

A novel kernel-based test detects equality versus singularity of two probability measures.

problem Detecting equality versus singularity of two probability distributions.
method Combines kernel mean and kernel covariance embeddings to construct a likelihood ratio test statistic.
result The test statistic satisfies a '0/\infty' law, vanishing under the null and diverging under the alternative.

We propose a new multivariate dependency measure. It is obtained by considering a Gaussian kernel based distance between the copula transform of the given d-dimensional distribution and the uniform copula and then appropriately normalizing it. The resulting measure is shown to satisfy a number of desirable properties. …

2017-08-24abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a new functional measure of tail dependence for weakly dependent (asymptotically independent) random vectors, termed weak tail dependence function. The new measure is defined at the level of copulas and we compute it for several copula families such as the Gaussian copula, copulas of a class of Gaussian mi…

2014-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Optical scatterometry is a method to measure the size and shape of periodic micro- or nanostructures on surfaces. For this purpose the geometry parameters of the structures are obtained by reproducing experimental measurement results through numerical simulations. We compare the performance of Bayesian optimization to …

2019-03-28abs ↗pdf ↗