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48 results for spherical Gaussians

The study bounds the stability of Gaussian mixtures under small perturbations.

problem Stability of Gaussian mixtures under small changes in distribution.
method Deriving an explicit bound on parameter stability of spherical Gaussian Mixture Models (sGMM) in a pre-defined model class.
result Upper bound on parameter distance of close sGMMs to the original sGMM, dependent only on the original model.

Revisits Gaussian process model with spherical harmonics for scalable deep learning.

problem Scaling Gaussian process models to large input dimensions with high frequency learning.
method Introduces new kernels related to deep models, variational learning of spherical harmonic phases, and sparseness in eigenbasis.
result Enables scaling to larger input dimensions and learning of high frequency variations.

Corrected whitening restores orthogonality in high-dimensional spherical Gaussian mixtures.

problem In high-dimensional data, standard whitening fails to preserve orthogonality of mixture means.
method Derived exact limits for whitened means dot products using random matrix theory, constructed a corrected whitening matrix.
result Corrected whitening allows for improved estimation of spherical Gaussian mixtures in the large-dimensional regime.

Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere via spherical curves.

problem Existence and uniqueness of spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.
method Continuous function of distance to axis, spherical angular momentum of spherical curves.
result Existence and uniqueness theorem for spherical helicoidal surfaces in 3-sphere.

Bayesian approach approximates probability functions of Gaussian mixtures.

problem Approximating probability functions of non-spherical Gaussian mixtures.
method Bayesian decomposition, spherical radial decomposition, random sampling.
result Established differentiability and integral representation of gradient for probability functions.

New method clusters non-spherical Gaussian mixtures with fewer samples and time.

problem Clustering non-spherical Gaussian mixtures with arbitrary component covariances.
method Sum-of-Squares method for finding low-dimensional projections.
result Improved clustering algorithms with fewer samples and time complexity.

Researchers found multiple spherical Ricci metrics on tori with rotational symmetry.

problem Constructing and analyzing spherical Ricci metrics with rotational symmetry.
method Explicitly constructed a two-parameter family of metrics with rotational symmetry and showed their existence on tori.
result Infinitely many non-isometric spherical Ricci metrics can be realized on the same torus.

Enhances Gaussian processes with spherical features for better scalability and flexibility.

problem Lack of representation learning in Gaussian processes compared to deep neural networks.
method Introduces spherical inter-domain features to improve GP approximation and scalability.
result The method alleviates limitations and improves scalability compared to alternative strategies.

Bayesian framework for sphere regression using Gaussian fields.

problem Nonparametric regression on the sphere with Gaussian priors.
method Isotropic Gaussian field priors, harmonic structure, exact posterior distributions, optimal spectral truncation, posterior contraction rates.
result Sharp posterior contraction rates for Gaussian priors with polynomially decaying angular power spectra.

In the present study we consider the generalized rotational surfaces in Euclidean spaces. Firstly, we consider generalized spherical curves in Euclidean (n+1)(n+1)-space En+1\mathbb{E}^{n+1}. Further, we introduce some kind of generalized spherical surfaces in Euclidean spaces E3\mathbb{E}^{3} and % \mathbb{E}^{4} respect…

2016-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphisms between spherical surfaces are rigid.

problem Rigidity of minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphisms between spherical surfaces.
method Proving that any minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphism between two closed spherical surfaces with cone singularities is an isometry.
result Minimal Lagrangian diffeomorphisms between spherical surfaces are rigid (i.e., they are isometries).

Study free energy in spherical spin glasses, proving universality dichotomy.

problem Analyzing free energy in spherical spin glass models with different tail exponents.
method Introduced a tail-adapted normalization and used universality dichotomy.
result Sharp universality dichotomy for free energy across different tail exponents.

New Fourier features improve high-precision approximation in large-scale problems.

problem Designing scalable, high-precision Fourier features for large-scale kernel methods.
method Introducing a new family of quadrature rules that accurately approximate the Gaussian measure in higher dimensions.
result Improved approximation bounds with new Fourier features.

New method uses spherical harmonics to simplify learning single-index models.

problem Learning single-index models with unknown one-dimensional projections.
method Proposes using spherical harmonics instead of Hermite polynomials to capture rotational symmetry.
result Characterizes the complexity of learning single-index models under arbitrary spherically symmetric input distributions.

Polynomial networks converge to Gaussian processes at a rate of O(n^(-1/2)).

problem Understanding the convergence rate of polynomial networks to Gaussian processes.
method Examined one-hidden-layer neural networks with random weights, focusing on polynomial activations and their convergence rate in the 2-Wasserstein metric.
result The rate of convergence for polynomial networks to Gaussian processes is $O(n^{- rac{1}{2}})$.

Third-order PDEs describe spherical and pseudospherical surfaces.

problem Equations for spherical and pseudospherical surfaces.
method Classification of third-order PDEs using compatibility conditions and linear problems.
result Explicit classification of equations describing spherical and pseudospherical surfaces.

Developed a diffusion model on spherical data, addressing geometric and stochastic challenges.

problem Diffusion models on spherical data face unique geometric and stochastic issues.
method Extended spectral diffusion to spherical harmonics, introducing modified stochastic differential equations.
result Introduced a geometry-dependent inductive bias in spectral diffusion models.

Study on spherical conical metrics and their reducibility on compact Riemann surfaces.

problem Existence and geometric structure of reducible spherical conical metrics.
method Analysis of monodromy groups and geometric cutting of surfaces.
result Existence of reducible spherical conical metrics with saddle points on the same geodesic.

Study sharp upper bounds for Aharonov-Bohm eigenvalues on surfaces.

problem Finding sharp upper bounds for eigenvalues of magnetic Laplacian.
method Isoperimetric inequalities and bounds in terms of Gaussian curvature.
result Maximal first eigenvalue for geodesic disk on simply connected surfaces.

Noise in SGD affects overparameterized models, favoring sparse solutions.

problem Understanding and mitigating implicit bias in SGD with parameter-dependent noise.
method Theoretical analysis of a quadratically-parameterized model with label noise and Gaussian noise.
result SGD with label noise recovers sparse ground-truth solutions, while SGD with Gaussian noise overfits dense solutions.

Derives TAP approximation for Bayesian linear regression.

problem Log-normalizing constant of posterior distribution in high-dimensional linear regression.
method Variational representation and Thouless-Anderson-Palmer approximation.
result Proves TAP approximation for spherical prior in proportional asymptotic regime.

Study spherical convex bodies using LpL_p-floating areas and curvature entropy.

problem Analogous isoperimetric inequalities for spherical convex bodies.
method Introduced LpL_p-floating areas and curvature entropy for spherical convex bodies.
result Established isoperimetric inequalities and dual isoperimetric inequalities.

Statistical and machine-learning algorithms are frequently applied to high-dimensional data. In many of these applications data is scarce, and often much more costly than computation time. We provide the first sample-efficient polynomial-time estimator for high-dimensional spherical Gaussian mixtures. For mixtures of a…

2014-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Method for factor analysis in short panels without assuming sphericity or Gaussianity.

problem Factor analysis in short panels without assuming sphericity or Gaussianity.
method Pseudo maximum likelihood method and asymptotically uniformly most powerful invariant test.
result Systematic risk explains a large part of cross-sectional total variance in bear markets but is not spanned by observed factors.

Study on complexity of random polynomials with deterministic spikes, identifying phase transitions.

problem Complexity of random Gaussian polynomials with deterministic spikes on a sphere.
method Variational formulas, Kac-Rice formula, determinant asymptotics of finite-rank perturbation of Gaussian Wigner matrices.
result Identification of a topological phase transition in the complexity function.

A new method using spherical harmonics approximates the Sliced-Wasserstein distance.

problem Approximating the Sliced-Wasserstein distance between probability measures.
method Spherical Harmonics Control Variates (SHCV) method for Monte Carlo approximation of the SW distance.
result SHCV method provides an improved rate of convergence compared to Monte Carlo for general measures.

Unified analysis simplifies Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma for data reduction.

problem Efficiently reducing high-dimensional data while preserving geometry.
method Unified analysis of various JL constructions using probabilistic tools.
result First rigorous proof and extension of spherical construction's effectiveness.

In this paper, we study the spherical indicatrices of W-direction curves in three dimensional Euclidean space which were defined by using the unit Darboux vector field W of a Frenet curve, in [11]. We obtain the Frenet apparatus of these spherical indicatrix curves and the characterizations of being general helix and s…

2015-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

We study singularities of constant positive Gaussian curvature surfaces and determine the way they bifurcate in generic 1-parameter families of such surfaces. We construct the bifurcations explicitly using loop group methods. Constant Gaussian curvature surfaces correspond to harmonic maps, and we examine the relations…

2017-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the spherical cap packing problem with a probabilistic approach. Such probabilistic considerations result in an asymptotic sharp universal uniform bound on the maximal inner product between any set of unit vectors and a stochastically independent uniformly distributed unit vector. When the set of unit vectors …

2015-11-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved sample complexity for Gaussian Mixture Models using Pair Correlation Factor.

problem Understanding the sample complexity of Gaussian Mixture Models.
method Introducing Pair Correlation Factor (PCF) to measure clustering of component means and improving sample complexity bounds.
result The Pair Correlation Factor (PCF) more accurately determines the difficulty of parameter recovery in Gaussian Mixture Models.

In this paper, we study the problem of learning a mixture of Gaussians with streaming data: given a stream of NN points in dd dimensions generated by an unknown mixture of kk spherical Gaussians, the goal is to estimate the model parameters using a single pass over the data stream. We analyze a streaming version of …

2017-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Abstract: Generalizes SGMs to infinite-dimensional Hilbertian setting.

problem Difficulties in extending SGMs to infinite-dimensional settings.
method Uses Gamma and Malliavin Calculus, Dirichlet forms, Wiener chaoses, and time-reversal formula.
result Generalized SGMs to Hilbertian setting with finite-dimensional entropic convergence bounds.

New neural network solves Nirenberg problem for curvature on sphere.

problem Prescribing Gaussian curvature on S2S^2 for metrics conformal to the round metric.
method Mesh-free physics-informed neural network (PINN) that directly parametrises the conformal factor.
result Neural network achieves very low losses for realisable curvatures, distinguishing them from non-realisable ones.