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48 results for distributional definition

A definition for elliptical tempered stable distribution, based on the characteristic function, have been explained which involve a unique spectral measure. This definition provides a framework for creating a connection between infinite divisible distribution, and particularly elliptical tempered stable distribution, w…

2014-08-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study compares synthetic and distributional Ricci curvature bounds.

problem Comparing synthetic and distributional approaches to lower Ricci curvature bounds.
method Analyzes synthetic via weak displacement convexity and distributional via non-negativity of Ricci-tensor.
result Distributional bounds imply entropy bounds for C1C^1 metrics and vice versa for C1,1C^{1,1} under convergence condition.

New definition of Bäcklund transformation for surface isometric deformation.

problem Defining Bäcklund transformation in surface isometric deformation.
method Proving generic 4D integrable rolling distribution splits into 1D family of 3D distributions.
result Introducing new definition of Bäcklund transformation.

New definition resolves ambiguity in non-stationary bandit classification.

problem Ambiguity in classifying non-stationary bandits using existing definitions.
method Introducing a formal definition that resolves ambiguity and provides a unified approach.
result Unified approach applicable to both Bayesian and frequentist formulations, resolves classification issues.

A microeconomic model is developed, which accurately predicts the shape of personal income distribution (PID) in the United States and the evolution of the shape over time. The underlying concept is borrowed from geo-mechanics and thus can be considered as mechanics of income distribution. The model allows the resoluti…

2009-03-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Expected Shortfall (ES) in several variants has been proposed as remedy for the defi-ciencies of Value-at-Risk (VaR) which in general is not a coherent risk measure. In fact, most definitions of ES lead to the same results when applied to continuous loss distributions. Differences may appear when the underlying loss di…

2001-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Defines a similarity measure for classification distributions.

problem Measuring similarity between classification distributions.
method Proposes task similarity, a novel measure quantifying performance of source distributions on target distributions.
result Empirical task similarity correlates with transfer efficiency and semantic similarity of source distributions.

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.

A family of probability distributions parametrized by an open domain ΛΛ in RnR^n defines the Fisher information matrix on this domain which is positive semi-definite. In information geometry the standard assumption has been that the Fisher information matrix tensor is positive definite defining in this way a Riemannia…

2015-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

The main purpose of this paper is to formalize the modelling process, analysis and mathematical definition of corruption when entering into a contract between principal agent and producers. The formulation of the problem and the definition of concepts for the general case are considered. For definiteness, all calculati…

2018-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Defines Wodzicki residue using groupoids and fibered distributions.

problem Defining and understanding the Wodzicki residue in noncommutative geometry.
method Using groupoid language and filtered manifolds, defining the residue and showing its properties.
result The groupoidal residue is a trace on pseudodifferential operators and matches the usual residue in certain cases.

A new metric for comparing probability measures on graphs, scalable and negative definite.

problem Optimal transport's high complexity and indefiniteness for kernel machines.
method Sobolev transport metric for graph metrics, closed-form formula, negative definiteness.
result Sobolev transport yields a scalable and negative definite metric.

New spectral mixture representation for isotropic kernels simplifies random Fourier features.

problem Applying Random Fourier Features to complex kernels.
method Decompose isotropic kernels into scale mixtures of α-stable random vectors.
result Constructive spectral sampling formula for various kernels.

Optimal transport (\OT) theory defines a powerful set of tools to compare probability distributions. \OT~suffers however from a few drawbacks, computational and statistical, which have encouraged the proposal of several regularized variants of OT in the recent literature, one of the most notable being the \textit{slice…

2019-02-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved Bayesian learning rule handles positive-definite constraints efficiently.

problem Bayesian learning rule struggles with positive-definite constraints.
method Proposes an improved rule using Riemannian gradient methods for block-coordinate natural parameterization.
result Outperforms existing methods without increased computation.

Gaussian belief propagation (GaBP) is an iterative algorithm for computing the mean of a multivariate Gaussian distribution, or equivalently, the minimum of a multivariate positive definite quadratic function. Sufficient conditions, such as walk-summability, that guarantee the convergence and correctness of GaBP are kn…

2012-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We give definition of a holonomy flag in subRiemannian geometry --- a generalization of a Riemannian holonomy algebra --- and calculate it for the 3D subRiemannian Lie groups. We rewrite and give new interpretation for the Codazzi equations for the (2,3)(2,3)-distributions on the SU(2)SU(2) and the Heisenberg group.

2015-12-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified learning bound for covariate and concept shifts.

problem Generalization under distribution shift in machine learning.
method Support-agnostic definitions of covariate and concept shifts using entropic optimal transport, leading to a unified error bound applicable to various loss functions and label spaces.
result Development of estimators for shifts with concentration guarantees and the DataShifts algorithm for quantifying and estimating the error bound.

With the aim of building machine learning systems that incorporate standards of fairness and accountability, we explore explicit subgroup sample complexity bounds. The work is motivated by the observation that classifier predictions for real world datasets often demonstrate drastically different metrics, such as accura…

2019-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Fairness measures fail in predictive settings that intentionally shift outcomes.

problem Fairness measures fail in performative prediction settings.
method Formalized concept shift and counterfactual outcomes.
result Predictors that are fair during training become unfair during deployment.

The paper presents two schemes for sampling matrices from specific distributions on a manifold.

problem Sampling matrices from Gibbs distributions on the manifold of positive semi-definite matrices with fixed rank.
method Two explicit schemes based on Euler-Maruyama discretization of the Riemannian Langevin equation with Brownian motion on the manifold.
result Numerical validation of the schemes using specific energy functions and metrics.

The study defines and analyzes semi-invariant submanifolds in complex contact metric manifolds.

problem Characterizing semi-invariant submanifolds in complex contact metric manifolds.
method Definition and derivation of relations, integrability conditions of distributions.
result Obtained useful relations and integrability conditions for semi-invariant submanifolds.

Epsilon-machines are minimal, unifilar presentations of stationary stochastic processes. They were originally defined in the history machine sense, as hidden Markov models whose states are the equivalence classes of infinite pasts with the same probability distribution over futures. In analyzing synchronization, though…

2011-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

A new imputation method estimates missing values by matching observed marginals from masked data.

problem Missing values in data undermine statistical and machine learning analysis.
method Estimates a distribution from masked observations using positive semi-definite kernel density estimation.
result The method yields both single and multiple imputations from the same fitted density, with statistical consistency and fast adaptive excess risk.

We are concerned with obtaining well-calibrated output distributions from regression models. Such distributions allow us to quantify the uncertainty that the model has regarding the predicted target value. We introduce the novel concept of distribution calibration, and demonstrate its advantages over the existing defin…

2019-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce a wrapped Gaussian for SPD matrices, enhancing data analysis.

problem Handling circular and non-flat data distributions on SPD manifolds.
method Introduced a non-isotropic wrapped Gaussian using the exponential map, derived theoretical properties, and proposed a maximum likelihood framework.
result Demonstrated the robustness and flexibility of the wrapped Gaussian model on synthetic and real-world datasets.

Pseudo-holomorphic curves on almost complex manifolds have been much more intensely studied than their "dual" objects, the plurisubharmonic functions. These functions are defined classically by requiring that the restriction to each pseudo-holomorphic curve is subharmonic. In this paper subharmonic functions are define…

2011-07-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Reinforcement learning (RL) tasks are challenging to implement, execute and test due to algorithmic instability, hyper-parameter sensitivity, and heterogeneous distributed communication patterns. We argue for the separation of logical component composition, backend graph definition, and distributed execution. To this e…

2018-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

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 statistical properties of the bid-ask spread of a frequently traded Chinese stock listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange are investigated using the limit-order book data. Three different definitions of spread are considered based on the time right before transactions, the time whenever the highest buying price or th…

2006-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a new algorithm for graph learning with covariance constraints.

problem Graphical models and factor analysis not jointly leveraged in graph learning processes.
method Penalized maximum likelihood estimation of an elliptical distribution with Riemannian optimization.
result Effectiveness of the proposed approach demonstrated on real-world data sets.

We investigate the probability distribution of order imbalance calculated from the order flow data of 43 Chinese stocks traded on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Two definitions of order imbalance are considered based on the order number and the order size. We find that the order imbalance distributions of individual stoc…

2017-07-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce and study covariance fields of distributions on a Riemannian manifold. At each point on the manifold, covariance is defined to be a symmetric and positive definite (2,0)-tensor. Its product with the metric tensor specifies a linear operator on the respected tangent space. Collectively, these operators form…

2008-07-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider examples of the H\mathbb H-type groups with the natural horizontal distribution generated by the commutation relations of the group. In the contrast with the previous studies we furnish the horizontal distribution with the Lorentzian metric, which is nondegenerate metric of index 1 instead of a positive de…

2008-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New distances for comparing multivariate normal distributions.

problem Comparing multivariate normal distributions efficiently and accurately.
method Approximated Fisher-Rao distance and pullback SPD cone distances.
result Efficient computation of distances between normal distributions.

We provide a mathematical definition of fragility and antifragility as negative or positive sensitivity to a semi-measure of dispersion and volatility (a variant of negative or positive "vega") and examine the link to nonlinear effects. We integrate model error (and biases) into the fragile or antifragile context. Unli…

2012-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗