Estimates conditional Brenier maps using entropic optimal transport.
problem Non-parametric estimation of conditional Brenier maps.
method Entropic optimal transport for scalable non-parametric estimation.
result Entropic optimal transport maps asymptotically converge to conditional Brenier maps.
A new statistical model uses Orlicz-Sobolev spaces with Gaussian weight.
problem Statistical modeling of infinite-dimensional probability measures.
method Affine statistical bundle on Gaussian Orlicz-Sobolev space.
result Provides tools for solving infinite-dimensional evolution problems.
Adapts POD basis for parametric ROMs using pGP.
problem Updating POD basis for accurate system behavior over parameter space.
method Formulates problem as supervised statistical learning, uses pGP to learn mapping between parameter space and Grassmann manifold.
result Proposes pGP for optimal estimation of POD basis parameters and quantifies uncertainty.
Theoretical guarantees for neural estimators in parametric statistics are derived.
problem Lack of theoretical guarantees for neural estimators in parametric statistics.
method Decompose risk into terms and verify assumptions for convergence.
result Derive theoretical guarantees for neural estimators.
We develope a new and general notion of parametric measure models and statistical models on an arbitrary sample space Ω which does not assume that all measures of the model have the same null sets. This is given by a diffferentiable map from the parameter manifold M into the set of finite measures or probability me…
Geometric regularisation improves statistical models by avoiding degeneracy loci.
problem Non-identifiability, singular information, and moment indeterminacy in statistical models.
method Develops the geometric regularisation of distribution-kernel pairs (T,φ) using Whitney, Thom, and Mather theorems. result Finite-dimensional weak transversality theorem for generic kernels, avoiding degeneracy strata of high codimension.
Adaptive algorithm improves nonlinear data assimilation for non-Gaussian systems.
problem Challenges of non-Gaussian statistics in data assimilation.
method Triangular measure transport with P-spline basis functions and an information criterion.
result Automatic selection of parsimonious parametrization for efficient adaptation.
We present the FuSSO, a functional analogue to the LASSO, that efficiently finds a sparse set of functional input covariates to regress a real-valued response against. The FuSSO does so in a semi-parametric fashion, making no parametric assumptions about the nature of input functional covariates and assuming a linear f…
A new framework for brain mapping using statistical agnostic methods.
problem Estimating brain connectivity with limited data and controlling false positives.
method Statistical Agnostic Mapping (SAM) based on concentration inequalities.
result Relieves instability and provides less conservative p-value correction.
Cookbook transforms constrained statistical inference into unconstrained problems.
problem Transforming constrained statistical inference into unconstrained problems.
method Bijective and diffeomorphisms parametrizations.
result Maintains statistical inference properties like identifiability.
Study investigates XAI methods in clinical gait analysis.
problem Limited understanding of machine learning models in healthcare.
method XAI methods, specifically Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP), to explain ML predictions.
result Explanations from LRP show promising statistical and clinical relevance.
This note is concerned with accurate and computationally efficient approximations of moments of Gaussian random variables passed through sigmoid or softmax mappings. These approximations are semi-analytical (i.e. they involve the numerical adjustment of parametric forms) and highly accurate (they yield 5% error at most…
Motivated by the need for parametric families of rich and yet tractable distributions in financial mathematics, both in pricing and risk management settings, but also considering wider statistical applications, we investigate a novel technique for introducing skewness or kurtosis into a symmetric or other distribution.…
Contrary to standard statistical models, unnormalised statistical models only specify the likelihood function up to a constant. While such models are natural and popular, the lack of normalisation makes inference much more difficult. Here we show that inferring the parameters of a unnormalised model on a space Ω can …
Paper solves recovery of parametrizations from Legendre data.
problem Recovering parametrizations from Legendre data.
method Systematic and widely-applicable method to recover parametrizations from Gauss mapping and height function.
result Showed how to recover parametrization from dense subset of real-analytic parametrizations.
We propose the use of statistical emulators for the purpose of valuing mortality-linked contracts in stochastic mortality models. Such models typically require (nested) evaluation of expected values of nonlinear functionals of multi-dimensional stochastic processes. Except in the simplest cases, no closed-form expressi…
We investigate artificial neural networks as a parametrization tool for stochastic inputs in numerical simulations. We address parametrization from the point of view of emulating the data generating process, instead of explicitly constructing a parametric form to preserve predefined statistics of the data. This is done…
Constructing exponential families from statistical manifolds.
problem The central problem of constructing exponential families from statistical manifolds.
method Constructive approach proving every compact statistical manifold admits a foliation of Hessian manifolds.
result Compact orientable leaves are either finite quotients of flat torus or mapping torus with periodic monodromy.
Unified geometric interpretation of statistical estimation inequalities.
problem Curvature corrections in parametric statistical estimation.
method Cartan-geometric jet bundle formulation and jet prolongations.
result Unified geometric interpretation of higher-order information inequalities.
Improved spatial distribution learning with Bayesian transport maps and parametric shrinkage.
problem Learning non-Gaussian spatial distributions with limited training data.
method Proposed ShrinkTM approach using Bayesian transport maps with parametric shrinkage.
result ShrinkTM outperforms existing BTM, especially with few training samples.
A tractable pseudo-metric for non-parametric distributions via SPD geometry.
problem Computing distances between non-parametric probability distributions is intractable.
method Two-stage framework: projection onto parametric family, embedding into SPD matrices.
result Closed-form pseudo-metric for two-sample hypothesis testing.
We provide a framework to approximate the 2-Wasserstein distance and the optimal transport map, amenable to efficient training as well as statistical and geometric analysis. With the quadratic cost and considering the Kantorovich dual form of the optimal transportation problem, the Brenier theorem states that the optim…
Parametric UMAP learns a mapping from data to embeddings.
problem Representing and learning from structured data.
method Parametric optimization over neural network weights for UMAP.
result Parametric UMAP performs comparably to non-parametric UMAP with faster online embeddings.
Enhances selective inference for generalized lasso using parametric programming.
problem Low statistical power in selective inference for generalized lasso.
method Parametric programming to compute solution paths and identify model selection events.
result Improves selective inference power and practicality for various problems.
Parametric images provide insight into the spatial distribution of physiological parameters, but they are often extremely noisy, due to low SNR of tomographic data. Direct estimation from projections allows accurate noise modeling, improving the results of post-reconstruction fitting. We propose a method, which we name…
We derive upper bounds on the complexity of ReLU neural networks approximating the solution maps of parametric partial differential equations. In particular, without any knowledge of its concrete shape, we use the inherent low-dimensionality of the solution manifold to obtain approximation rates which are significantly…
Near-optimal rates for multi-task learning with shared representations.
problem Approximation and statistical complexity of learning multiple operators.
method Multiple Neural Operators (MNO) architecture and comparison with DeepONet.
result Near-optimal upper and lower bounds for approximation and generalization.
Examines algorithmic modeling across three cultures.
problem Tackles algorithmic modeling in different cultural contexts.
method Uses parametric regressions, interpretable algorithms, and complex algorithms.
result Extension of Leo Breiman's thesis to include cultural differences.
We establish an optimal regularity result for parametrized two-dimensional stationary varifolds. Namely, we show that the parametrization map is a smooth minimal branched immersion and that the multiplicity function is constant. We provide some applications of this regularity result, especially in the calculus of varia…
The contour maps of the error of historical resp. parametric estimates for large random portfolios optimized under the risk measure Expected Shortfall (ES) are constructed. Similar maps for the sensitivity of the portfolio weights to small changes in the returns as well as the VaR of the ES-optimized portfolio are also…
Develops coresets for scalable multivariate distribution estimation.
problem Handling large-scale data in non-parametric or semi-parametric regression and density estimation.
method Novel coreset construction for multivariate conditional transformation models (MCTMs).
result Substantial data reduction with high log-likelihood accuracy.
A nonparametric two-sample test using a parametric integral probability metric
problem Detecting distributional differences between two independent samples
method Propose a new two-sample test statistic based on a newly introduced integral probability metric (IPM)
result Establish theoretical guarantees for the associated two-sample testing procedure
Breiman's two cultures reconciled through blending statistical thinking.
problem Tension between parametric statistical and machine learning approaches.
method Establishing a link between parametric statistical and machine learning frameworks.
result Integrated statistical thinking can bridge the gap between two cultures.
A new algorithm difFOCI improves feature learning from data.
problem Feature selection and learning from data.
method Parametric, differentiable approximation of FOCI method.
result Improves feature learning with better management of spurious correlations.
Study provides guarantees for kernel clustering under non-parametric mixtures.
problem Statistical guarantees for kernel-based clustering without strong assumptions.
method Non-parametric mixture models, kernel-based clustering, consistency guarantees.
result Necessary and sufficient separability conditions for consistent clustering recovery.
We use meromorphic quadratic differentials with higher order poles to parametrize the Teichmüller space of crowned hyperbolic surfaces. Such a surface is obtained on uniformizing a compact Riemann surface with marked points on its boundary components, and has non-compact ends with boundary cusps. This extends Wolf's pa…
New framework for privacy-preserving statistical inference using robust statistics.
problem Privacy-preserving statistical inference with robust statistics.
method Introducing a general framework for parametric inference with differential privacy guarantees using M-estimators and test statistics.
result Demonstrated that differential privacy is weaker than robustness and can be achieved by randomizing robust M-estimators.
One of the main challenges in the parametrization of geological models is the ability to capture complex geological structures often observed in the subsurface. In recent years, generative adversarial networks (GAN) were proposed as an efficient method for the generation and parametrization of complex data, showing sta…
Proposes a private empirical bootstrap for Gaussian Differential Privacy.
problem Quantifying uncertainty in massive data under Differential Privacy.
method Gaussian Differential Private Bootstrap by Subsampling.
result Consistent and efficient private inference method.
Study contact structures on lens spaces, classifying rational knots.
problem Classify rational knots in lens spaces.
method One-parametric convex surface theory to classify Legendrian and transverse rational unknots.
result Determine the contact mapping class group of lens spaces.
We consider the question of learning in general topological vector spaces. By exploiting known (or parametrized) covariance structures, our Main Theorem demonstrates that any continuous linear map corresponds to a certain isomorphism of embedded Hilbert spaces. By inverting this isomorphism and extending continuously, …
New statistical biharmonic maps derived from a variation problem.
problem Variation problem for mappings between statistical manifolds.
method Statistical biharmonic maps derived from the Euler-Lagrange equation.
result Improper affine hyperspheres induce examples of statistical biharmonic maps.
Proposes a parametric t-SNE without perplexity tuning.
problem Non-parametric t-SNE's perplexity parameter limits DR quality.
method Multi-scale parametric t-SNE with deep neural network.
result Produces reliable embeddings with competitive neighborhood preservation.
Enhances Pontryagin-Thom theorem for manifold maps.
problem Identifying map spaces with moduli spaces of submanifolds.
method Space-level enhancement of Pontryagin-Thom theorem.
result Maps from manifolds to Thom spaces identified with moduli spaces of submanifolds.
This work proposes a new method to match distributions across different spaces using cycle-consistent maps.
problem Matching distributions across different spaces with consistent bidirectional maps.
method A novel unbalanced Monge optimal transport formulation for matching distributions on different spaces, employing cycle-consistent maps.
result The proposed discrepancy captures the cycle-consistent GAN framework and provides theoretical support.
New parametrization of 3-spheres using Johnson subgroups.
problem Constructing integral homology 3-spheres.
method Intrinsic description of equivalence relation on fourth Johnson subgroup.
result Intrinsic description of equivalence relation using fourth Johnson handlebody subgroups.
Author presents the second variational formula for statistical biharmonic maps.
problem Developing a formula for statistical biharmonic maps.
method Introduced the second variational formula for the statistical bi-energy functional.
result The second variational formula can be represented using Hessian curvature in Hessian manifolds.
Paper introduces FNM framework for learning finite-dimensional parametrized models.
problem Efficiently learning finite-dimensional parametrized models from limited data.
method Fourier Neural Mappings (FNMs) framework for operator learning.
result End-to-end learning of PtO maps can be less data-efficient than learning the solution operator first.