One of the earliest models of stochastic growth was originally developed for simulating the appearance of various biological patterns;in particular, bacterial colonies. Although it received little attention from biolo...
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(纸本)0819427934
One of the earliest models of stochastic growth was originally developed for simulating the appearance of various biological patterns;in particular, bacterial colonies. Although it received little attention from biologists, some twenty years later it was adopted by crystallographers, solid state researchers, other physicists and chemists. Because of the model's flexibility it is being used by them after modifications appropriate to the application, in order to simulate their physical study objects under a variety of conditions. Only within the last few years has there been any interest in using this and similar digital models to represent the possible products of biological processes. It is also worth noting that aside from its relevance to probabilistically influenced pattern formation, the model has possible use in image processing for image compression and as an information-lossless way to code, regions, contours, or line segments.
We investigate stochastic, distributed algorithms that can accomplish separation and integration behaviors in self-organizing particle systems, an abstraction of programmable matter. These particle systems are compose...
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(纸本)9781450357951
We investigate stochastic, distributed algorithms that can accomplish separation and integration behaviors in self-organizing particle systems, an abstraction of programmable matter. These particle systems are composed of individual computational units known as particles that have limited memory, strictly local communication abilities, and modest computational power, and which collectively solve system-wide problems of movement and coordination. In this work, we extend the usual notion of a particle system to treat heterogeneous systems by considering particles of different colors. We present a fully distributed, asynchronous, stochastic algorithm for separation, where the particle system self-organizes into segregated color classes using only local information about each particle's preference for being near others of the same color. Conversely, by simply changing the particles' preferences, the color classes become well-integrated. We rigorously analyze the convergence of our distributed, stochastic algorithm and prove that under certain conditions separation occurs. We also present simulations demonstrating our algorithm achieves both separation and integration.
This work proposes and illustrates a stochastic version of the bias-accelerated subset selection (BASS) algorithm used to learn the sampling pattern (SP) in accelerated Cartesian MRI problems. Recently, BASS was combi...
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(纸本)9781665473583
This work proposes and illustrates a stochastic version of the bias-accelerated subset selection (BASS) algorithm used to learn the sampling pattern (SP) in accelerated Cartesian MRI problems. Recently, BASS was combined with ADAM for joint learning of the SP and deep learning reconstruction. However, BASS originally uses all the data in each iteration, taking a long processing time when the training dataset is large. Here, we illustrate that BASS is also very stable when only a small fraction of the dataset is used at each iteration. This version, called stochastic BASS (SBASS), can substantially reduce the SP training time for large datasets, obtaining similar quality measurements of the learned pair of SP and reconstruction.
In this paper, we review recent results concerning stochastic models for coagulation processes and their relationship to deterministic equations. Open problems related to the gelation effect are discussed. Finally, we...
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In this paper, we review recent results concerning stochastic models for coagulation processes and their relationship to deterministic equations. Open problems related to the gelation effect are discussed. Finally, we present some new conjectures based on numerical experiments performed with stochastic algorithms. (C) 2003 IMACS. Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
In this paper stochastic algorithms for global optimization are reviewed. After a brief introduction on random-search techniques, a more detailed analysis is carried out on the application of simulated annealing to co...
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This paper studies the stochastic behavior of the LMS algorithm for a system identification framework when the input signal is a non-stationary white Gaussian process. The unknown system is modeled by the standard ran...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781457705700
This paper studies the stochastic behavior of the LMS algorithm for a system identification framework when the input signal is a non-stationary white Gaussian process. The unknown system is modeled by the standard random walk model. An approximate theory is developed which is based upon the instantaneous average power in the adaptive filter taps. The stability of the algorithm is investigated using this model. Monte Carlo simulations of the algorithm provides strong support for the theoretical approximation.
Many methods for processing classical or quantum data are based on estimating some parameters, e.g. those of adaptive filters, artificial neural networks (including deep learning approaches), blind source separation s...
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(纸本)9781538654774
Many methods for processing classical or quantum data are based on estimating some parameters, e.g. those of adaptive filters, artificial neural networks (including deep learning approaches), blind source separation systems or quantum gates. For classical signals, these methods include stochastic algorithms, such as stochastic gradient descent. We here first introduce a partly related, general, type of stochastic algorithms for quantum data and we prove the asymptotic efficiency of the proposed estimator. We then show the attractiveness of this stochastic approach for the quantum version of blind multiple-input multiple-output system identification and blind source separation: the resulting model estimation methods can operate with a single copy of each considered quantum state, whereas the previous methods require many copies of the same (unknown) states to be available and are thus "less blind". Numerical tests show that good performance is obtained with 10(4) such quantum states.
We consider a distributed multi-agent network system where the goal is to minimize the sum of convex functions, each of which is known (with stochastic errors) to a specific network agent. We are interested in asynchr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424470143
We consider a distributed multi-agent network system where the goal is to minimize the sum of convex functions, each of which is known (with stochastic errors) to a specific network agent. We are interested in asynchronous algorithms for solving the problem over a connected network where the communications among the agent are random. At each time, a random set of agents communicate and update their information. When updating, an agent uses the (sub) gradient of its individual objective function and its own stepsize value. The algorithm is completely asynchronous as it neither requires the coordination of agent actions nor the coordination of the stepsize values. We investigate the asymptotic error bounds of the algorithm with a constant stepsize for strongly convex and just convex functions. Our error bounds capture the effects of agent stepsize choices and the structure of the agent connectivity graph. The error bound scales at best as m in the number m of agents when the agent objective functions are strongly convex.
We propose algorithms for solving high-dimensional Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) that combine a probabilistic interpretation of PDEs, through Feynman-Kac representation, with sparse interpolation. Monte-Carlo ...
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(纸本)9783030434656;9783030434649
We propose algorithms for solving high-dimensional Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) that combine a probabilistic interpretation of PDEs, through Feynman-Kac representation, with sparse interpolation. Monte-Carlo methods and time-integration schemes are used to estimate pointwise evaluations of the solution of a PDE. We use a sequential control variates algorithm, where control variates are constructed based on successive approximations of the solution of the PDE. Two different algorithms are proposed, combining in different ways the sequential control variates algorithm and adaptive sparse interpolation. Numerical examples will illustrate the behavior of these algorithms.
This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is devoted to the problems of Brow- nian semimartingales discretization based on stop- ping times. We start with the study of the optimal discretization for stochastic...
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This thesis consists of two parts. The first part is devoted to the problems of Brow- nian semimartingales discretization based on stop- ping times. We start with the study of the optimal discretization for stochastic integrals. In this context we establish an almost sure lower bound on the renormalized quadra- tic variation of the error and provide a sequence of stopping times which are asymptotically optimal, wi- thout the non-degeneracy assumption. Also we esta- blish an optimal discretization strategy which is com- pletely adaptive to the model. Further we study statistical fluctuations of the discreti- zation errors by showing Central Limit Theorems for general sequences of stopping times. The class of discretization grids is quite large and the limit distri- bution is given explicitly. The results are proved in the multidimensional case both for the process and for the discretization error. We apply these results to the problem of parametric statistical inference for diffusion processes based on observations at general stopping times. The second part is devoted to the problem of un- certainty quantification for stochastic approximation li- mits. In our framework the limit is defined as the zero of a function given by an expectation and typically re- presents the solution to some stochastic optimization problem. The expectation is related to a random va- riable for which the distribution is supposed to depend on an uncertain parameter (Bayesian point of view). Thereby the limit of the algorithm depends on this pa- rameter and is also uncertain. We introduce an algo- rithm called USA (Uncertainty for stochastic Approxi- mation) to efficiently calculate the chaos expansion coefficients of the limit as a function of the uncertain parameter. The convergence and the L 2 -convergence rate of the USA are analysed.
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