Publications related to Infinite divisibility (probability)

Chung-type law of the iterated logarithm and exact moduli of continuity for a class of anisotropic Gaussian random fields

We establish a Chung-type law of the iterated logarithm and the exact local and uniform moduli of continuity for a large class of anisotropic Gaussian random fields with a harmonizable-type integral representation and the property of strong local nondeterm ...

INT STATISTICAL INST2023

Normal approximation of the solution to the stochastic heat equation with Levy noise

Carsten Hao Ye Chong

Given a sequence L & x2d9;epsilon of Levy noises, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of their variances sigma 2(epsilon) such that the solution to the stochastic heat equation with noise sigma(epsilon)-1L & x2d9;epsilon converges in law ...

SPRINGER2020

Fast ion transport phenomena in turbulent toroidal plasmas

Fabian Manke

In the field of plasma physics, suprathermal ions are encountered e.g. in astrophysical jets, the solar wind, as well as fusion plasmas, where they originate from neutral beam injection or fusion reactions. One aspect of shared interest with astrophysical ...

EPFL2020

On the probability distribution of the local times of diagonally operator-self-similar Gaussian fields with stationary increments

Thomas Mountford, Kamran Kalbasi

In this paper, we study the local times of vector-valued Gaussian fields that are 'diagonally operator-selfsimilar' and whose increments are stationary. Denoting the local time of such a Gaussian field around the spatial origin and over the temporal unit h ...

INT STATISTICAL INST2020

The probability of intransitivity in dice and close elections

Jan Hazla

We study the phenomenon of intransitivity in models of dice and voting. First, we follow a recent thread of research for n-sided dice with pairwise ordering induced by the probability, relative to 1/2, that a throw from one die is higher than the other. We ...

2020

Managing inventory with proportional transaction costs

Semyon Malamud

We solve the problem of optimal inventory management for a CARA market-maker who faces proportional transaction costs and marking to market. Our model accommodates inventory shocks following an arbitrary compound Poisson process. We show that the no-tradin ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2020

Fast Automatic Smoothing for Generalized Additive Models

Anthony Christopher Davison, Yousra El Bachir

Generalized additive models (GAMs) are regression models wherein parameters of probability distributions depend on input variables through a sum of smooth functions, whose degrees of smoothness are selected by L-2 regularization. Such models have become th ...

Microtome Publishing2019

Scalable Byzantine Reliable Broadcast

Rachid Guerraoui, Dragos-Adrian Seredinschi, Matej Pavlovic, Matteo Monti

Byzantine reliable broadcast is a powerful primitive that allows a set of processes to agree on a message from a designated sender, even if some processes (including the sender) are Byzantine. Existing broadcast protocols for this setting scale poorly, as ...

Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fer Informatik2019

Cosmological constraints from the convergence 1-point probability distribution

Jonathan Andrew Blazek

We examine the cosmological information available from the 1-point probability density function (PDF) of the weak-lensing convergence field, utilizing fast L-PICOLA simulations and a Fisher analysis. We find competitive constraints in the Omega(m)-sigma(8) ...

Oxford Univ Press2017

Elliptical tempered stable distribution

Hasan Fallahgoul

Elliptical distributions are useful for modelling multivariate data, multivariate normal and Student t distributions being two special classes. In this paper, we provide a definition for the elliptical tempered stable (ETS) distribution based on its charac ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

A Levy-derived process seen from its supremum and max-stable processes

Sebastian Engelke

We consider a process Z on the real line composed from a Levy process and its exponentially tilted version killed with arbitrary rates and give an expression for the joint law of the supremum (Z) over bar, its time T, and the process Z(T + center dot) - (Z ...

Univ Washington, Dept Mathematics2016

Adaptive polynomial approximation by means of random discrete least squares

Giovanni Migliorati

We address adaptive multivariate polynomial approximation by means of the discrete least-squares method with random evaluations, to approximate in the L2 probability sense a smooth function depending on a random variable distributed according to a given pr ...

Springer2015

Asymptotically Optimal Matching of Multiple Sequences to Source Distributions and Training Sequences

Jayakrishnan Unnikrishnan

Consider a finite set of sources, each producing independent identically distributed observations that follow a unique probability distribution on a finite alphabet. We study the problem of matching a finite set of observed sequences to the set of sources ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Sparsity and Infinite Divisibility

Michaël Unser, Arash Amini

We adopt an innovation-driven framework and investigate the sparse/compressible distributions obtained by linearly measuring or expanding continuous-domain stochastic models. Starting from the first principles, we show that all such distributions are neces ...

2014

MAP Estimators for Self-Similar Sparse Stochastic Models

Michaël Unser, Emrah Bostan, Julien René Pierre Fageot, Ulugbek Kamilov

We consider the reconstruction of multi-dimensional signals from noisy samples. The problem is formulated within the framework of the theory of continuous-domain sparse stochastic processes. In particular, we study the fractional Laplacian as the whitening ...

SampTA2013

Sparse Stochastic Processes and Discretization of Linear Inverse Problems

Michaël Unser, Emrah Bostan, Ulugbek Kamilov, Masih Nilchian

We present a novel statistically-based discretization paradigm and derive a class of maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimators for solving ill-conditioned linear inverse problems. We are guided by the theory of sparse stochastic processes, which specifies cont ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

The Analog Formulation of Sparsity Implies Infinite Divisibility and Rules Out Bernoulli-Gaussian Priors

Michaël Unser, Arash Amini, Ulugbek Kamilov

Motivated by the analog nature of real-world signals, we investigate continuous-time random processes. For this purpose, we consider the stochastic processes that can be whitened by linear transformations and we show that the distribution of their samples ...

Ieee2012

How to Prove the Maxwell Conjecture Via Spatial Coupling - A Proof of Concept

Rüdiger Urbanke, Nicolas Macris, Andrei Giurgiu

Investigations on spatially coupled codes have lead to the conjecture that, in the infinite size limit, the average input-output conditional entropy for spatially coupled low-density parity-check ensembles, over binary memoryless symmetric channels, equals ...

Ieee2012

Practical unconditionally secure two-channel message authentication

Atefeh Mashatan

We investigate unconditional security for message authentication protocols that are designed using two-channel cryptography. (Two-channel cryptography employs a broadband, insecure wireless channel and an authenticated, narrow-band manual channel at the sa ...

2010

A Class Of Mean Field Interaction Models for Computer and Communication Systems

Jean-Yves Le Boudec

We consider models of N interacting objects, where the interaction is via a common resource and the distribution of states of all objects. We introduce the key scaling concept of intensity; informally, the expected number of transitions per object per time ...

2008