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Elliptical processes generalize Gaussian and Student-t models with fat tails and computational efficiency.

problem Need for models with fat tails and computational tractability.
method Represent elliptical distributions as continuous mixtures of Gaussian distributions, derive closed-form expressions for marginal and conditional distributions.
result Elliptical processes offer advantages in robust regression compared to Gaussian processes.

We investigate the class of tempered stable distributions and their associated processes. Our analysis of tempered stable distributions includes limit distributions, parameter estimation and the study of their densities. Regarding tempered stable processes, we deal with density transformations and compute their pp-var…

2019-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian Gaussian Processes layer detects out-of-distribution data in medical imaging.

problem Detecting out-of-distribution data in medical imaging tasks.
method Parameter-efficient hierarchical convolutional Gaussian Processes in Wasserstein-2 space.
result Uncertainty estimates enable superior out-of-distribution detection compared to previous methods.

Bayesian layer improves image segmentation and out-of-distribution detection.

problem Outlier detection in image segmentation.
method Parameter-efficient hierarchical convolutional Gaussian Processes in Wasserstein-2 space.
result Uncertainty estimates improve out-of-distribution detection.

The fractional Poisson process (FPP) is a counting process with independent and identically distributed inter-event times following the Mittag-Leffler distribution. This process is very useful in several fields of applied and theoretical physics including models for anomalous diffusion. Contrary to the well-known Poiss…

2011-04-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study on gamma-related OU processes with simulation methods.

problem Distributional properties and simulation of gamma-related OU processes.
method Investigation of gamma and bilateral gamma laws, derivation of closed-form densities and characteristic functions, and development of efficient simulation algorithms.
result Efficient algorithms for generating gamma-related OU processes with significantly faster performance than existing methods.

The Volterra square-root process shows non-uniqueness of limiting distributions and regularity of its law.

problem Non-uniqueness of limiting distributions in the Volterra square-root process.
method Establishing existence of limiting distributions using integrability of the Volterra convolution kernel and exponential-affine transformation.
result The limiting distributions of the Volterra square-root process depend on the initial state and belong to weighted Besov spaces.

NDPs learn to sample from complex function distributions using neural networks and diffusion models.

problem Learning rich distributions over functions with neural networks.
method NDPs use denoising diffusion models and custom attention blocks to incorporate stochastic process properties.
result NDPs can capture functional distributions close to true Bayesian posteriors and outperform neural processes.

Monge-Kantorovich distances, otherwise known as Wasserstein distances, have received a growing attention in statistics and machine learning as a powerful discrepancy measure for probability distributions. In this paper, we focus on forecasting a Gaussian process indexed by probability distributions. For this, we provid…

2017-01-31abs ↗pdf ↗

The seemingly disjoint problems of count and mixture modeling are united under the negative binomial (NB) process. A gamma process is employed to model the rate measure of a Poisson process, whose normalization provides a random probability measure for mixture modeling and whose marginalization leads to an NB process f…

2012-09-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Characterizes Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes linked to tempered stable distributions.

problem Understanding Lévy-driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes and their properties.
method Characterizes the Lévy triplet and deduces transition laws for finite variation Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes associated with tempered stable distributions.
result Provides algorithms for generating skeleton of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes related to exponentially-modulated tempered stable laws.

We investigate the pricing of cliquet options in a geometric Meixner model. The considered option is of monthly sum cap style while the underlying stock price model is driven by a pure-jump Meixner--Lévy process yielding Meixner distributed log-returns. In this setting, we infer semi-analytic expressions for the clique…

2018-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Personal income distributions in Japan are analyzed empirically and a simple stochastic model of the income process is proposed. Based on empirical facts, we propose a minimal two-factor model. Our model of personal income consists of an asset accumulation process and a wage process. We show that these simple processes…

2005-05-25abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a stochastic process driven by the memory effect with novel distributions which include both exponential and leptokurtic heavy-tailed distributions. A class of the distributions is analytically derived from the continuum limit of the discrete binary process with the renormalized auto-correlation. The moment …

2012-03-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Process capability index (PCI) is a commonly used statistic to measure ability of a process to operate within the given specifications or to produce products which meet the required quality specifications. PCI can be univariate or multivariate depending upon the number of process specifications or quality characteristi…

2018-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

CQNPs enhance predictive performance and distribution modeling using quantile regression.

problem Limited predictive likelihood of Gaussian models for complex distributions.
method Introducing Conditional Quantile Neural Processes (CQNPs) that focus on estimating informative quantiles.
result Significant improvements in predictive performance and better modeling of multimodal distributions.

Gaussian process priors are commonly used in aerospace design for performing Bayesian optimization. Nonetheless, Gaussian processes suffer two significant drawbacks: outliers are a priori assumed unlikely, and the posterior variance conditioned on observed data depends only on the locations of those data, not the assoc…

2018-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers use Gaussian processes to approximate Lagrange multipliers for Maximum-Entropy distributions.

problem Finding Lagrange multipliers for Maximum-Entropy distributions is computationally challenging.
method Employed Gaussian processes to approximate the Lagrange multipliers as a map of moments. Optimized hyperparameters by maximizing log-likelihood.
result Data-driven Maximum-Entropy closure performs well in approximating non-equilibrium distributions.

Skew Gaussian Processes improve classification performance by allowing asymmetry.

problem Limited use of Gaussian processes in applications requiring asymmetry.
method Propose Skew-Gaussian processes (SkewGPs) as a non-parametric prior over functions, extending the multivariate Unified Skew-Normal distribution to stochastic processes.
result SkewGPs provide better performance than symmetric Gaussian processes in classification tasks.

A new method for deep Wishart processes improves kernel-based models.

problem Inference in deep Wishart processes is challenging due to the need for flexible distributions over positive semi-definite matrices.
method Developed a novel approach to flexible distributions over positive semi-definite matrices using the Bartlett decomposition of the Wishart probability density. Used this to create an approximate posterior for the DWP.
result Improved performance of inference in the DWP compared to DGP with equivalent prior.

This work introduces a new model for complex stochastic processes.

problem Difficulties in representing non-stationary distributions with conventional models.
method Recurrent Autoregressive Flows using normalizing flows with recurrent neural connections.
result Demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed model through experiments.

We find the explicit expression for the equilibrium wealth distribution of the Directed Random Market process, recently introduced by Martínez-Martínez and López-Ruiz, which turns out to be a Gamma distribution with shape parameter 12\frac{1}{2}. We also prove the convergence of the discrete-time process describing the…

2014-04-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a class of Lévy processes for modelling financial market fluctuations: Bilateral Gamma processes. Our starting point is to explore the properties of bilateral Gamma distributions, and then we turn to their associated Lévy processes. We treat exponential Lévy stock models with an underlying bilateral Gamma pr…

2019-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes multivariate Hawkes processes and their induced population processes.

problem Analyzing the time-dependent joint probability distribution of multivariate Hawkes processes.
method Exact and asymptotic analysis of general multivariate Hawkes processes and their induced population processes.
result Full characterization of the time-dependent joint transform of the multivariate population process and its intensity process.

Improved variational approximation for deep Wishart process models.

problem Improving predictive performance of deep Wishart process models.
method Generalizing the Bartlett decomposition of the Wishart distribution to allow linear combinations of rows and columns.
result Better predictive performance achieved with minimal additional computation cost.

Paper introduces DQPOPE for estimating return distributions in reinforcement learning.

problem Estimating the entire return distribution from off-policy data.
method Deep quantile process regression for distributional off-policy evaluation.
result DQPOPE achieves statistical advantages by estimating full return distribution with same sample size.

We analyze the Levy processes produced by means of two interconnected classes of non stable, infinitely divisible distribution: the Variance Gamma and the Student laws. While the Variance Gamma family is closed under convolution, the Student one is not: this makes its time evolution more complicated. We prove that -- a…

2007-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for faster prediction in distributed Gaussian processes.

problem Inefficient aggregation of distributed Gaussian processes with correlations.
method Proposes a novel approach for aggregated prediction in distributed GPs that incorporates correlations among experts.
result Results in more stable predictions in less time compared to state-of-the-art methods.

We consider fully connected feed-forward deep neural networks (NNs) where weights and biases are independent and identically distributed as symmetric centered stable distributions. Then, we show that the infinite wide limit of the NN, under suitable scaling on the weights, is a stochastic process whose finite-dimension…

2020-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Consider a reference Markov process with initial distribution π0π_{0} and transition kernels {Mt}t[1:T]\{M_{t}\}_{t\in[1:T]}, for some TNT\in\mathbb{N}. Assume that you are given distribution πTπ_{T}, which is not equal to the marginal distribution of the reference process at time TT. In this scenario, Schrödinger addressed t…

2019-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

DistGP models multi-robot mapping with distributed Gaussian process learning.

problem Collaborative mapping by multiple robots with limited local data.
method Sparse Gaussian process with factorisation and distributed training via GBP.
result DistGP achieves superior accuracy and robustness compared to DiNNO.

Deep Gaussian Processes improve likelihood-free inference for complex distributions.

problem Limited flexibility of Bayesian Optimization with GPs for multimodal distributions.
method Proposes Deep Gaussian Processes (DGPs) as a surrogate model for likelihood-free inference.
result DGPs outperform GPs on multimodal distributions while maintaining comparable performance on unimodal cases.

Modified lognormal distribution with flexible tails for skewed data.

problem Skewed and fat-tailed data in natural and engineering datasets.
method Developed a family of three-parameter non-Gaussian probability density functions based on generalized kappa-exponential and kappa-logarithm functions.
result Closed-form analytic expressions for statistical functions and maximum-likelihood estimation.

Under the Basel II standards, the Operational Risk (OpRisk) advanced measurement approach is not prescriptive regarding the class of statistical model utilised to undertake capital estimation. It has however become well accepted to utlise a Loss Distributional Approach (LDA) paradigm to model the individual OpRisk loss…

2011-02-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A robust Gaussian process model using Huber likelihood for outlier resistance.

problem Outliers in observational data sets affect Gaussian process regression's robustness.
method Proposes a Gaussian process model with Huber likelihood and weights based on projection statistics.
result Demonstrates improved statistical efficiency and robustness to outliers.

The study analyzes a model for aggregate losses with dependent and overdispersed inter-losses times.

problem Analyzing aggregate loss models with dependent and overdispersed inter-losses times.
method The study uses a two-state Markovian arrival process (MAP2) and a Markov renewal process to model the inter-losses times. Severities are modeled using a heavy-tailed, double-Pareto Lognormal distribution. The model is estimated via direct maximization of the likelihood function.
result The model with dependence and overdispersion in inter-losses times leads to higher capital charges compared to a Poisson process.