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48 results for density of forms

The paper classifies biharmonic quadratic maps between spheres, proving their energy density properties.

problem Classifying non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms between spheres.
method Proving non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms have constant energy density and classifying them.
result Non-harmonic biharmonic quadratic forms have constant energy density (m+1)/2(m+1)/2.

Develops efficient methods for approximating densities of financial models with jumps.

problem Approximating densities of affine jump diffusions with state-independent jump intensities.
method Recursive approach for deriving closed-form solutions to moments, constructing density approximations via moment matching.
result Superior computational efficiency and precision in option pricing and simulation compared to existing techniques.

Study recovers Riemannian quantities from noisy data densities.

problem Recovering geometric structure from noisy data on submanifolds.
method Derive uniform small-noise expansions of noisy density and its derivatives; construct estimators for tangent spaces, intrinsic dimension, and second fundamental form.
result Fundamental Riemannian quantities identifiable from density derivatives.

Let MmM^m be a minimal properly immersed submanifold in an ambient space close, in a suitable sense, to the space form Nkn\mathbb{N}^n_k of curvature k0-k\le 0. In this paper, we are interested in the relation between the density function Θ(r)Θ(r) of MmM^m and the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator. In particular, …

2014-07-20abs ↗pdf ↗

DDN models flexible free-form conditional distributions.

problem Difficulty in explicitly approximating arbitrary conditional distributions.
method Deconvolutional neural network framework for discretizing continuous domains.
result DDN outperforms other density-estimation methods on various tasks.

Meta-learning improves relative density-ratio estimation from limited data.

problem Estimating relative density-ratios from few instances.
method Meta-learning using neural networks to extract and embed dataset information for relative DRE.
result Meta-learning enables efficient and effective adaptation to few instances for relative DRE.

We give a construction of a Poisson transform mapping density valued differential forms on generalized flag manifolds to differential forms on the corresponding Riemannian symmetric spaces, which can be described entirely in terms of finite dimensional representations of reductive Lie groups. Moreover, we will explicit…

2016-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Non-parametric estimation of a multivariate density estimation is tackled via a method which combines traditional local smoothing with a form of global smoothing but without imposing a rigid structure. Simulation work delivers encouraging indications on the effectiveness of the method. An application to density-based c…

2016-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes approximate Stein classes for efficient truncated density estimation.

problem Difficulties in estimating truncated density models due to intractable normalising constants and boundary conditions.
method Adapts score matching to solve the problem, introduces approximate Stein classes and a novel discrepancy measure, TKSD.
result TKSD does not require a fixed weighting function and can be evaluated using only boundary samples, leading to improved accuracy.

GGMPs improve non-Gaussian conditional density estimation.

problem Multimodality, heteroscedasticity, and strong non-Gaussianity in conditional density estimation.
method GGMP combines local Gaussian mixture fitting, cross-input component alignment, and per-component heteroscedastic GP training.
result GGMPs improve distributional approximation on synthetic and real-world datasets.

Proposes a method to partition univariate data into unimodal subsets.

problem Partitioning univariate multimodal data into unimodal subsets.
method Recursive splitting around valley points of the data density using properties of critical points on the convex hull of the ecdf plot.
result Obtains a hierarchical statistical model of the initial dataset as a mixture of UMMs.

We consider odd Laplace operators acting on densities of various weight on an odd Poisson (= Schouten) manifold MM. We prove that the case of densities of weight 1/2 (half-densities) is distinguished by the existence of a unique odd Laplace operator depending only on a point of an ``orbit space'' of volume forms. This…

2002-05-18abs ↗pdf ↗

New method minimizes robust density power-based divergences for general parametric densities.

problem Computational complexity of minimizing DPD for general parametric densities.
method Stochastic approach to minimize DPD for general parametric density models.
result Proposed method can be applied to minimize other density power-based γ-divergences.

Proposes a new method for high-dimensional density estimation.

problem Estimating high-dimensional probability density functions efficiently.
method Tensorizing flow method combining tensor-train and flow-based generative modeling.
result Efficiently constructs an approximate density in tensor-train form and trains a flow model to match empirical distribution.

Quantum method improves neural density estimation in high dimensions.

problem High-dimensional density estimation with poor performance and high computational complexity.
method Adaptive Fourier features based on quantum density matrices, integrated with neural networks.
result Competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods in various datasets.

Consider two manifolds~MmM^m and NnN^n and a first-order Lagrangian L(u)L(u) for mappings u:MNu:M\to N, i.e., LL is an expression involving uu and its first derivatives whose value is an mm-form (or more generally, an mm-density) on~MM. One is usually interested in describing the extrema of the functional $\Cal L(u) =…

1994-06-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a lower and an upper bound for the conformal dimension of the boundaries of certain small cancellation groups. We apply these bounds to the few relator and density models for random groups. This gives generic bounds of the following form, where ll is the relator length, going to infinity. (a) $1 + 1/C < \Cdim(…

2010-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops method to compute Chern-Simons potentials from higher-dimensional Pontryagin densities.

problem Computing Chern-Simons potentials from higher-dimensional Pontryagin densities.
method Systematic approach using a generic affine connection with non-vanishing torsion and non-metricity.
result Algorithm and code for determining Chern-Simons potential from Pontryagin density in arbitrary even dimensions.

E2^2M optimizes tensor density estimation by relaxing αα-divergence to KL-divergence.

problem Analytical challenges in traditional αα-divergence optimization for tensor-based density estimation.
method E2^2M algorithm: relaxes optimization to KL-divergence, then applies tensor many-body approximation.
result Flexible modeling of various low-rank structures and their mixtures.

New framework quantifies uncertainty in flexible density-based clustering.

problem Uncertainty quantification in clustering with non-parametric density estimation.
method Martingale posterior distributions and density-based clustering.
result Efficient GPU-compatible inference on clustering structures with uncertainty.

DRCD identifies causal direction between continuous and discrete variables using density ratio monotonicity.

problem Inferring causal direction between continuous and discrete variables from observational data.
method Density Ratio-based Causal Discovery (DRCD) method.
result DRCD identifies causal direction between continuous and discrete variables using density ratio monotonicity.

In this paper we investigate the geometry of the likelihood of the unknown parameters in a simple class of Bayesian directed graphs with hidden variables. This enables us, before any numerical algorithms are employed, to obtain certain insights in the nature of the unidentifiability inherent in such models, the way pos…

2013-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Adaptive multi-stage density ratio estimation improves learning of latent space EBM.

problem Learning energy-based models in latent space is computationally expensive and challenging.
method Adaptive multi-stage density ratio estimation using NCE to bridge the gap between prior and posterior densities.
result The method enables more expressive prior models and sharpens the latent space EBM.

Intra-day price spreads are of interest to electricity traders, storage and electric vehicle operators. This paper formulates dynamic density functions, based upon skewed-t and similar representations, to model and forecast the German electricity price spreads between different hours of the day, as revealed in the day-…

2020-02-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We model the dynamics of asset prices and associated derivatives by consideration of the dynamics of the conditional probability density process for the value of an asset at some specified time in the future. In the case where the price process is driven by Brownian motion, an associated "master equation" for the dynam…

2010-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce closed-form transition density expansions for multivariate affine jump-diffusion processes. The expansions rely on a general approximation theory which we develop in weighted Hilbert spaces for random variables which possess all polynomial moments. We establish parametric conditions which guarantee existen…

2011-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Novel unsupervised random forests improve density estimation and data synthesis.

problem Density estimation and data synthesis for complex tabular data.
method Recursive unsupervised random forests with alternating generation and discrimination rounds.
result Provable consistency and smooth densities with fast execution.