Questions tagged [sampling]
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Alternative to the Sampling Theorem / Invertible transform with sampling criteria
I seek a transform $T$ that operates on real-valued $x(t)$, that
Is perfectly invertible
Has discrete counterpart with continuous reconstructor
Provides conditional reconstruction guarantees
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Invertibility of the sampling matrix
Given a function $f: \mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ sampled as a matrix $F_{ij}$ on some ractangle $[a,b]\times[c,d]\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ with steps $\Delta x$ and $\Delta y$ as the stepsizes so ...
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Given iid samples from the joint distribution $P$ of pair of r.v.'s $(X,Y)$, how to get iid samples from independence coupling $P_X \otimes P_Y$?
Let $(X,Y)$ be a pair of random variables on a measure space $\mathcal T \subseteq \text{"subsets of }\mathbb R^2\text{"}$, with joint probability distribution $P$.
We don't assume $X$ and $Y$ are ...
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Integral of $\ln(1/|f|)$ for $f$ bandlimited
I came across the following assertion: if $f\in PW_\infty([-a,a])$, i.e. the Bernstein space of functions in $L^\infty(\mathbb{R})$ which are the Fourier transform of a distribution supported on $[-a,...
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Shift-invariant spaces
We can define a shift-invariant space as
$$V_{\varphi}(\mathbb{Z}):=\left\{\sum_{k\in\mathbb{Z}}c_k\varphi(\cdot-k):(c_k)\in \ell_2\right\},$$
where convergence of the series is taken to be in $L^2(\...
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Probability of an edge in a random graph
Consider a vertex set $V$ and a degree sequence $(d_v)_{v\in V}$. I want to know the probability that an edge exists between two given vertices $u$ and $v$ in a random graph with this degree sequence.
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Correlating two matrices $A,B$ with stochastic dependency structure imposed by cross-validation
Consider a labelled data set
$$D = \{(x_1, y_1),...,(x_n, y_n)\} $$
on which we want to evaluate a machine learning algorithm using $k$-fold cross validation with $m$ different random seeds. This ...
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Intuition of the "work" done by random variables in Monte Carlo methods (incl. MCL)
(I've tried Math SE, but have so far come up empty handed, so I'm trying my luck here.)
I would like to get a better intuitive understanding of why Monte Carlo works so well in approximating a ...
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Injectivity of the covolution operator $f \mapsto (k*f(s))_{s \in S}$ via sampling at $S=\alpha \mathbb Z$
Let $S \subset \mathbb R$ be a uniform grid, say $S = \alpha \mathbb Z, \alpha >0$.
Let $k$ be a square integrable function and $A$ the operator which maps $f \in L^2(\mathbb R)$ to the sequence
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Which operations commute with fractional translation?
Let $\mathbf{v}$ be a real signal (i.e., an infinitely long vector).
A translation operation $T_{s}\mathbf{v}$ with integer $s$ is trivially
defined by $\forall i,s:\left(T_{s}\mathbf{v}\right)_{i}=v_{...
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Sampling after sorting vs sorting without sampling
Given a probability distribution $(p_1,\cdots,p_d)$ and integer $k$.
We can sample the distribution $k$ times. For any obtained sample $(X_1,\cdots,X_d)$ with $X_i$ denoting the occurrence of $i$, we ...
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Subset estimation from positive and negative samples
I am looking for the name of the following (family of) problems:
given a known set $K$ and an unknown subset $G \subset K$, and the values of the characteristic function $\mathbb 1_{G}(x_i)$ for some ...
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Distribution of a two-part sampling process
I have a known distribution $f(x)$ (in fact, I can safely assume that $f(x)$ is the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, i.e. $f(x)\propto x^2 \exp(-x^2)$). I take $N$ samples from the distribution, but am ...
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Random sampling from modified Erlang distribution [closed]
I am tasked with randomly sampling from the following probability density function, which is a modified Erlang Function:
$$f(k,q,\nu)=\frac{(k q)^{k-1}}{[(k-1) !]^{v}} \quad \text { with } \quad q \...
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Column subset selection with least angle optimization
Given a matrix $A$ I need to select a "representative" subset of its columns so that the each non-selected column is as close as possible to a selected one.
Formally:
Given $A \in \mathbb{R}...
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Fast sampling of matroids
In his classic paper, Donald E. Knuth described how random matroids of fixed rank can be generated.
What is the currently the fastest (in terms of mixing behaviour) known way to sample matroids of ...
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Are two degree sequences compatible, for random simple graph generation?
Consider a set $V$ of $n$ vertices, and three degree sequences $a_i$, $b_i$ and $c_i$ such that $c_i = a_i+b_i$, $i=1..n$.
Assume these degree sequences are graphical: there exist simple graphs (no ...
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Relation between signal derivative and frequency spectrum
I want to sample a signal whose derivative I know to be bounded by physical constraints. The sampling is disturbed by gaussian noise, hence I need to filter the sample with a lowpass filter.
Since I ...
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Sampling i.i.d. variables with restrictions
General Problem: Suppose $X_1,\ldots,X_n \sim \mathbb{P}_X^{\otimes n}$ is a finite sequence of i.i.d. (real- or integer-valued) random variables. Suppose $A\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ is a set of "...
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Probability that a random multigraph is simple
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Consider a given sequence of $n$ integers $d_1$, $d_2$, $\cdots$, $d_n$ with $\sum_i d_i$ even and $d_i\le n$ for all $i$. One may sample a random multi-graph having this degree sequence ...
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Interior point of a convex polytope
Suppose the convex polytope is the set of feasible solutions $\mathbf{x}\in\mathbb{R}^n$ for the linear system $\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}=\mathbf{b}\,,\; \mathbf{A}\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$ subject to ...
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Condition on the point cloud matrix making the points "generic" in the uniform sense
For a matrix $X\in\mathbb{R}^{d\times n}$, what condition can I impose on $X$ to make the collection of its columns generic in the sense that they look like the result of uniformly sampling a convex ...
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Yates-Grundy draw-by-draw sampling inclusion probabilities
Is there an efficient algorithm to calculate the inclusion probabilities (the probability that an item will be included in a sample) in the Yates-Grundy draw-by-draw sampling?
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Invariant measure vs Riemannian measure on Stiefel manifold
I'm interested in sampling uniformly from the Stiefel manifold $V(k, n)$, but while researching how to do this I came to wonder the following.
In Edelman et al. [1] there are presented two ...
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Random optimization problem
Let $V$ be a set of $n$-dimensional vectors such that, for each ${\bf v}\in V$ and for each index $i\in [n-1]$, we have $0\le v_{i+1}\le v_i$. Let $P(\cdot)$ be a discrete probability distribution ...
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What is the pdf of Laplace distribution conditioned on a plane? How can I sample from it?
Our goal is to sample from the Laplace distribution conditioned on a linear subspace. Here are the details of this problem.
Let
$$p(x) \propto \exp(-\|x\|_1/\sigma)$$
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Using common samples to numerically estimate pairwise equality of three random variables
Let $X,Y,Z$ be three discrete random variables which I can numerically sample. I need to numerically estimate the probability that $X=Y$ and the probability that $X=Z$. I would like to know whether ...
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Can computers take uniform samples from a polytope?
For each $r \in \mathbb N $ write $\mathbb Z/ 10^r = \{a/10^r: a \in \mathbb Z\}$ and $P(r)$ for the lattice $(\mathbb Z/10^r)^N \subset \mathbb R^N$.
Suppose the plane $P \subset \mathbb R^N$ is ...
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Use Importance sampling for multimodal and multivariate distribution draws, how to choose proposal distribution?
I'm in trouble trying to generate samples following a particular distribution which is not numerically known perfectly. Let us consider a $R^n$ space provided with an orthonormal base $( e_{1},...,e_{...
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Draw samples from distribitions in the neighborhood of a fixed distribution
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Sorry in advance for vagueness. I'm still trying to get my ideas right on this one.
Setup
So, let $P$ be a distribution on a Euclidean space $X$ with an $\ell_p$ metric, and let $P_\...
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Expectation inequality for sampling without replacement
Is the following proposition correct?
$X_1, X_2, X_3$ are uniformly at random sampled from a finite set $\mathcal X$ without replacement.
$f : \mathcal X^2 \rightarrow \mathbb R_{\ge0}$ is symmetric:...
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Minimize the variance of a Boltzmann distribution
N.B.: Sorry for cross-posting from https://stats.stackexchange.com/posts/347804/edit (I realized it was the wrong venue for the question, but couldn't find an easy way to transfer the question here).
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Uniform sampling of random connected graph with given number of vertices/edges
I am looking for algorithms for the exact uniform sampling of connected labelled graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges. By "exact" I mean that every such graph should be generated with precisely (not ...
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Sampling with non-uniform probabilities
Let $p_1,p_2,...,p_n$ are given probabilities. ($\sum_{i=1}^n p_i =1, p_i \geq 0 $). Is there any distribution, which picks $k\leq n$ distinct elements from $1,2,...,n$ such that $P(i \in S) = k p_i$ ...
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Plancharel-Pólya inequality for functions of exponential type
If $f(z)$ is an entire function of exponential type $\tau$ and $p$ a positive number such that that $$\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}|f(x)|^pdx<\infty$$
then it can be proven that $$\int_{-\infty}^{+\...
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Combinatorial computational problem about 0-1 vectors and sampling algorithms
Let $M \in \{0,1\}^{m\times n}$, where $n\gg 1$ and $m\le n$. A procedure consisting of the following three steps is repeated $t\gg 1$ times:
A row $\require{amsmath} \boldsymbol{r}$ of $M$ picked in ...
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Sampling set: relatively dense and uniformly discrete
The Paley-Wiener space of a domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ is the set $$PW_\Omega:=\{f\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^d):\text{supp}\widehat{f}\subset\Omega\}.$$
We say that a discrete set $\Lambda\subset\...
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Randomly covering a sphere
Let $S$ be the $n$-dimensional unit sphere in the Euclidean space. Further,
let $X_1,\ldots,X_k$ and $Y_1,\ldots,Y_m$ be iid $S$-valued random variables with common (unknown) distribution $\mu$. With $...
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How to measure distribution of high-dimensional data
I have to methods of projecting random samples in $\mathbb{R}^n$ onto a manifold defined by $C(q)=0$, which is a lower-dimensional subset. Now, samples in $\mathbb{R}^n$ are uniformly distributed. ...
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RMHMC sampling in non-parametric setup
The aim is to sample distributions using Fisher information (as mass matrix in Hamiltonian MCMC sampling). Details can be found in http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.190.580&...
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Expected value of parametrized Gibbs distribution w.r.t another probability distribution
Let $\mu$ be a compactly supported probability measure on a finite-dimensional euclidean space (for simplicity) $\mathbb E$, and suppose $\mu$ has density. For a random point $x \sim \mu$,
consider ...
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How to sample a path between 2 states in a Markov chain
Given an ergodic Markov chain and 2 states $x$ and $y$, how may one algorithmically sample a path (of finite length) $x =: s_0 \rightarrow s_1 \rightarrow \ldots \rightarrow s_T = y$ between $x$ and $...
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Bounding function by random sampling
Let $f(x): \mathbf{C} \to \mathbf{C}$ be a complex valued polynomial of degree $n$, and suppose that for a random point $z$ sampled uniformly from the unit disk $|z|\leq 1$ we have
$$\mathbf{P}_{z}( |...
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Efficiently Sampling of Multivariate Distributions in the Vicinity of a Manifold
I am given a multivariate distribution, that maps each point of $\mathbb{R}^n$ to its probability of being drawn as sample and, the convolution $\mathcal{S_r}\times\mathcal{M}$ of a manifold $\mathcal{...
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Sampling from a particular multivariate probability distribution
Given $3$ real variables $x_1, x_2, x_3 \equiv \bf{x}$, consider their probability density function (PDF)
\begin{equation}
P({\bf x}) = C \, p(x_1) \cdots p(x_3) \exp[f({\bf x})],
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2-step sampling from a conditional density
The setting is as follows:
We are given two random variables $X : \Omega \to \mathbb{R}$ and $\Theta : \Omega \to T$ for some 'parameter space' $T \subset \mathbb{R}$, and
1) we know the density of $...
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Sampling Theorem for non-bandlimited Functions
The classical Shannon sampling theorem states that
a bandlimited function with $\mbox{supp } \hat f\subset [-1/2,1/2]$ can be uniquely determined by its samples $(f(i))_{i\in \mathbb{Z}}$ (The symbol $...
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Simulate a graph from a certain distribution
I am wondering if anyone can indicate whether the following is a solved problem. I don't care about time of the algorithm currently.
Consider a general probability distribution F on simple graphs ...
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Sample integer points of cross-polytope uniformly
For $r,d\in\mathbb{N}$, let
$$C_{r,d}=\{x\in\mathbb{Z}^d: \|x\|_1\le r\}\subset\mathbb{Z}^d$$
be the set of integer points of the $d$-dimensional cross-polytope with radius $r$.
What is (...
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Efficient sampling from a polytope with large number of contraints [duplicate]
As far as I know, the most popular way to sample from a polytope (in H-representation)
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{P} := \{z \in \mathbb{R}^n | (Az)_j \le b_j\; \forall j=1,2,\ldots,m\}
\end{equation}
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