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48 results for Poisson approximation

This paper develops a general method for constructing Poisson integrators.

problem Lack of a general theory for Poisson integrators due to geometric challenges.
method Adapting structural results about symplectic realizations to create geometric approximations.
result Developed a general approach for constructing geometric integrators on Poisson manifolds.

Multivariate Poisson approximation of the length spectrum of random surfaces is studied by means of the Chen-Stein method. This approach delivers simple and explicit error bounds in Poisson limit theorems. They are used to prove that Poisson approximation applies to curves of length up to order o(loglogg)o(\log\log g) with gg

2016-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows convergence rates for BSDEs approximated by compound Poisson processes.

problem Analyzing convergence rates of BSDEs driven by Lévy processes.
method Approximating Lévy processes by compound Poisson processes and studying BSDEs.
result Optimal convergence rates derived for BSDEs in L2\mathbb L^2-norm and Wasserstein distance.

New neural network approach solves Poisson equations efficiently.

problem Approximating solutions to Poisson equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions.
method Using shallow ReLUα-networks to solve Laplace operator equations.
result Neural networks can approximate solutions to the Laplace operator with Dirichlet boundary conditions efficiently.

We derive Gaussian approximations for random forest predictions using region-based stabilization.

problem Improving the accuracy of random forest predictions for Poisson process data.
method Region-based stabilization and Malliavin-Stein method for multivariate Gaussian approximation.
result Established Gaussian approximation bounds for random forest predictions under Poisson process.

Paper tackles Bayesian image restoration in low-photon Poisson imaging problems.

problem Bayesian inference in challenging low-photon Poisson imaging problems.
method Plug-and-play (PnP) Langevin sampling strategies with accelerated methods and mirror sampling.
result Effective PnP Langevin sampling methods for low-photon Poisson imaging problems.

Study Poisson cohomology and linearize Lie algebra structures.

problem Linearize Poisson structures on sl2(C)\mathfrak{sl}_2(\mathbb{C}).
method Calculate Poisson cohomology, construct homotopy operators, develop Nash-Moser method.
result Show that Poisson structures linearizable at zero are flat.

A beta-negative binomial (BNB) process is proposed, leading to a beta-gamma-Poisson process, which may be viewed as a "multi-scoop" generalization of the beta-Bernoulli process. The BNB process is augmented into a beta-gamma-gamma-Poisson hierarchical structure, and applied as a nonparametric Bayesian prior for an infi…

2011-12-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We develop a Bayesian Poisson matrix factorization model for forming recommendations from sparse user behavior data. These data are large user/item matrices where each user has provided feedback on only a small subset of items, either explicitly (e.g., through star ratings) or implicitly (e.g., through views or purchas…

2013-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops data subsampling techniques for Poisson regression models.

problem Efficiently approximating Poisson regression loss functions with coresets.
method Introduces coresets for Poisson regression with novel complexity parameters and domain shifting.
result Sublinear coresets exist for Poisson regression with 1±ε1\pm\varepsilon approximation guarantee.

We consider random walks on locally compact groups, extending the geometric criteria for the identification of their Poisson boundary previously known for discrete groups. First, we prove a version of the Shannon-McMillan-Breiman theorem, which we then use to generalize Kaimanovich's ray approximation and strip approxi…

2018-12-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We classify real Poisson structures on complex toric manifolds of type (1,1)(1,1) and initiate an investigation of their Poisson cohomology. For smooth toric varieties, such structures are necessarily algebraic and are homogeneous quadratic in each of the distinguished holomorphic coordinate charts determined by the open …

2016-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The Poisson model is frequently employed to describe count data, but in a Bayesian context it leads to an analytically intractable posterior probability distribution. In this work, we analyze a variational Gaussian approximation to the posterior distribution arising from the Poisson model with a Gaussian prior. This is…

2017-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We compare various extensions of the Bradley-Terry model and a hierarchical Poisson log-linear model in terms of their performance in predicting the outcome of soccer matches (win, draw, or loss). The parameters of the Bradley-Terry extensions are estimated by maximizing the log-likelihood, or an appropriately penalize…

2018-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes convergence rates for stochastic approximation and reinforcement learning.

problem Establishing almost sure convergence rates for stochastic approximation and reinforcement learning under Markovian noise.
method A novel Lyapunov drift construction that applies a Poisson-equation based correction for Markovian noise to the Moreau-envelope smoothing for contractive mappings.
result Almost sure convergence rates for specific learning rates are derived, with rates arbitrarily close to o(n12η)o(n^{1 - 2η}) and o(n1)o(n^{-1}).

Proposes a method to handle sparse multiway count data with false zeros using zero-truncated Poisson regression.

problem Handling sparse multiway count data corrupted by false zeros.
method Zero-truncated Poisson regression with tensor completion.
result Accurate estimation of multiway count data from approximately IR2log22(I)IR^2\log_2^2(I) non-zero counts.

We study generalized complex manifolds from the point of view of symplectic and Poisson geometry. We start by showing that every generalized complex manifold admits a canonical Poisson structure. We use this fact, together with Weinstein's classical result on the local normal form of Poisson manifolds, to prove a local…

2004-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper describes a fast algorithm for recovering low-rank matrices from their linear measurements contaminated with Poisson noise: the Poisson noise Maximum Likelihood Singular Value thresholding (PMLSV) algorithm. We propose a convex optimization formulation with a cost function consisting of the sum of a likeliho…

2014-07-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural nets solve high-dim PDEs with boundary conditions.

problem Solving high-dimensional elliptic PDEs with boundary conditions.
method Probabilistic representation and sampling method for deep neural networks.
result Deep neural networks can approximate solutions to the Poisson equation on finite domains.

The paper shows robustness of Hilbert space-valued stochastic volatility models to perturbations.

problem Robustness of Hilbert space-valued stochastic volatility models to measurement or approximation errors.
method Quantifying the error induced by volatility perturbations and studying robustness of volatility process with finite dimensional approximations.
result Explicit bounds for the induced error in terms of approximation of the underlying parameter.

We describe a simple and efficient procedure for approximating the Lévy measure of a Gamma(α,1)\text{Gamma}(α,1) random variable. We use this approximation to derive a finite sum-representation that converges almost surely to Ferguson's representation of the Dirichlet process based on arrivals of a homogeneous Poisson process.…

2011-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We present an approximate Bayesian inference approach for estimating the intensity of an inhomogeneous Poisson process, where the intensity function is modelled using a Gaussian process (GP) prior via a sigmoid link function. Augmenting the model using a latent marked Poisson process and Pólya--Gamma random variables w…

2018-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Poisson factorization is a probabilistic model of users and items for recommendation systems, where the so-called implicit consumer data is modeled by a factorized Poisson distribution. There are many variants of Poisson factorization methods who show state-of-the-art performance on real-world recommendation tasks. How…

2017-03-04abs ↗pdf ↗

PILNO uses neural operators to solve PDEs efficiently on point clouds.

problem Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on point cloud data efficiently.
method Physics-informed low-rank neural operator framework combining low-rank kernel approximations and an encoder-decoder architecture.
result PILNO efficiently approximates solution operators of PDEs on point cloud data, satisfying PDE constraints and boundary conditions.

This paper optimizes subsampling for large datasets using Poisson distribution.

problem Efficiently subsample large datasets for quasi-likelihood estimation.
method Derives optimal Poisson subsampling probabilities and develops a distributed subsampling framework.
result Consistent and asymptotically normal estimators are obtained.

We study the Hochschild homology groups of the algebra of complete symbols on a foliated manifold (M,F)(M,F). The first step is to relate these groups to the Poisson homology of (M,F)(M,F) and of other related foliated manifolds. We then establish several general properties of the Poisson homology groups of foliated manifold…

2002-04-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep FPF approximates gain function for high-dimensional particle filtering.

problem Approximating the exact gain function in high-dimensional settings.
method Represent the gain function as a neural network gradient and solve a variational Poisson equation via optimization.
result The approach allows parallel processing of particles and is applicable to high-dimensional problems.

Derives a Hamiltonian model for 3D axially symmetric magnetohydrodynamics.

problem Modeling of 3D axially symmetric magnetohydrodynamics.
method Hamiltonian formulation and matrix discretization.
result First discrete model for 3D magnetohydrodynamics compatible with underlying Lie-Poisson structure.

Develops scalable autoencoder for document networks.

problem Sparse and skewed latent node representations in document relational networks.
method Combines graph Poisson factor analysis with Weibull-based graph inference networks.
result Extracts high-quality hierarchical latent document representations.

Geometrically proves twisted Poincaré duality for orientable Poisson manifolds.

problem Establishing twisted Poincaré duality for Poisson manifolds.
method Geometrically reinterprets algebraic constructions of twisted Poisson modules and Poisson chain complexes.
result Explicit chain isomorphism between Poisson cochain and chain complexes with coefficients in Poisson modules.