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Most popular path in weighted cylic directed graph
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I have a graph $G=(V,E)$ with weighted edges, all weights are positive integers $w(e)\in\mathbb{N}\setminus\{0\}$. The weights represent the popularity/count of each edge, for example $w(e) = ...
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Approximate max weight path in directed graph
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This question is related to the fact one can't use Bellman-Ford to find max weight paths in directed graphs with cycles. The reason is that giving a new graph $\tilde{G}$ with negative weights ...
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Chebyshev’s inequality problem in one exercises I can't understand if I did it right or not
This is what do I have to solve:
Byron Book: Exercise 8.3 chapter 8
Verify the use of Chebyshev’s inequality in (8.6) of Example 8.16. Show that if the population
mean is indeed 48.2333 and the ...
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Separating labelled points with a plane, minimizing label variance
Suppose we have observations with associated labels $\{({\bf x}_1, y_1), ({\bf x}_2, y_2), \dots, ({\bf x}_n, y_n)\}$ where ${\bf x}_i \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and $y_i \in \mathbb{R}$.
Can we efficiently ...
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Tracking approximate values of specific percentiles
At the moment I use HdrHistogram to track approximate distribution of a stream of values. But I don't really need all percentiles, just three of them. Is there some algorithm to track specific ...
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Differential Privacy with only positive noise
The Laplace mechanism is a standard way of making the output of a function $f$ differentially private.
More concretely, let $\Delta_f$ be the sensitivity of $f$, i.e. the maximum value by which the ...
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How to implement conditional probability distribution on set-valued Random Variables
I'm trying to implement conditional probability distribution when the events of two RVs are sets. If I try to extrapolate concepts from real or categorical variables to sets things become confusing ...
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Averaging a list of variances
In a setting where I have n clients each owns a subset of the dataset, each computes the mean and variance on his data and send them to the server. The server would average all means and variances. ...
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Is this statistical group summation unambiguously reversible?
Let $X$ be a finite multisubset of $\mathbb{N}^2$. Let's introduce the following notation:
$A$ is a set of all first elements of pairs from $X$ and $B$ is a set of all second elements of pairs from $X$...
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what is instrument validation in computer science?
I'm writing an assignment involving some statistics comparing different implementation methods for web applications. I'll be using some downloaded software and web pages I create, on both virtualized ...
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Algorithm to mapping given probabilities to empirical probabilities
Consider following problem statement:
You have given $n$ actions. You can perform any of them. Each action gives you success with some probability. The challenge is to perform given finite number of ...
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Find the average number of steps to sort an array by randomly selecting two elements
I have sequence of an unique numbers from 1 to 10 in randomly order (for example: list = [7, 5, 3, 4, 2, 6, 10, 1, 9, 8]). I can choose two random number and if the list from left number larger then ...
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SGD statistical guarantee
I have a question regard online learning with SGD. Is there a way to give a statistical guarantee that the value obtained after $n$ samples deviates at most $\epsilon$ from the real value?
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How to handle distribution of values with same attributes into different classes
I'm a student studying a data mining course and have come across a problem.
I need to explain the problem with the help of an example scenario as I do not know how to explain the problem in any other ...
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Chebyshev inequality comparison
Given $n$ distinct values $(x_i)_{i=1}^{n}$ with mean $\mu$ and standard deviation $s$, for all $i$, we have $|x_i−\mu| ≤ s \sqrt{n − 1}$.
How does this inequality compare with Chebyshev inequality as ...
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Efficiently selecting a random subset of size $m$ from a set of size $n$
This is a cross post of my question here on math.se.
I have a list of $n$ items and would like to randomly select an $m$ set from it efficiently (in terms of time complexity). Also, I want all ...
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In a machine learning system, why use differentially private SGD if our input data is already perturbed by a DP mechanism?
I'm trying to implement my own version of a deep neural network with differential privacy to preserve the privacy of the parties involved in the training dataset.
I'm using the method by Abadi et al. ...
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Gaussian distribution with condition?
What does this expression mean?
Normal distribution with condition
I am reading a research paper and found the following expression (Eq.28 in the paper below).
It means a Gaussian distribution, but ...
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Algorithm for Estimating Number of Unique Monthly Visitors
Is there a way to estimate the number of unique monthly visitors to a site based on a limited sample of one week of data? I have information about when a given user visited the site. This isn't as ...
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What is the optimal algorithm for playing the hangman word game?
Suppose we are playing the game hangman. My opponent and I both have access to the dictionary during the game. My opponent picks a word from the dictionary with knowledge of the algorithm which I will ...
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Minimizing Trimmed Distances
I'm trying to understand what is the minimum of the following function,
$$
f(\mu) = \frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^n F\left(\frac{\pi(i)}{n}\right) (x_i - \mu )^2
$$
where $F$ is a step function that assign $...
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Does this problem have a formal name?
I have come across the following problem but am unable to understand the solution for it. Hence I would like to know if it has a formal name then, I can search for it and read about it in more detail. ...
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How to find clusters of a set of points in n-dimensional space that are furthest from unwanted points
I have a list of 25 points and their coordinates in a 512-dimensional space. I have 8 target points and 17 points I need to avoid (the 17 points to avoid also have differences in priority of how ...
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Amount of expected loop iterations when searching an array by random index
Lets say we have an array A of size n. It has 1 as its first index and n as its last index. It contains a value x, with x occurring k times in A where 1<=k<=n
If we have a search algorithm like ...
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Kullback-Liebler Divergence
For $P(x)=N(\mu,\sigma^2)$ and $Q(x)=N(0,1)$ I am supposed to calculate $KL(P(x)||Q(x))$, here is what I did
\begin{align*}
KL(P(x)||Q(x)) & = \int P(x) \cdot \log\left(\frac{P(x)}{Q(x)}\...
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Measures of performance in machine learning
I'm new to machine learning and struggle to interpret the results I get from different measures of performance. If for several prediction models I have e.g. accuracy, precision, recall, F1, FPR, and ...
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Suggestion for a good statistics book for computer scientists, in preparation of machine learning
We (a group of CS postdocs and Ph.D. students) are starting a shared reading of a machine learning book ("An Introduction to Statistical Learning", James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani).
Before diving ...
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The No-Free-Lunch Theorem and K-NN consistency
In computational learning, The NFL theorem states that there is no universal learner. For every learning algorithm , there is a distribution that causes the learner to output a hypotesis with a large ...
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What is the purpose of standardization in machine learning?
I'm just getting started with learning about K-nearest neighbor and am having a hard time understanding why standardization is required. Reading through, I came across a section saying
When ...
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Estimation of the number of solutions by Counting
This is a question from a quantum computation textbook.
Consider a classical algorithm for counting the number of solutions to a problem. The algorithm samples uniformly and independently $k$ times ...
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What kind of standard deviation must be used in optimization algorithms?
I would like to ask about the standard deviation of objective function value.
There are two types of standard deviations:
Population standard deviation
Sample standard deviation
In metaheuristic ...
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Assumption of a generation of the dataset by a probability distribution
Consider the following paragraph from the deeplearningbook
The training and test data are generated by a probability distribution
over datasets called the data-generating process. We typically ...
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How can we get small test error reducing only train error?
My question is about mathematical part of machine learning algorithms, especially about using it in neural networks. We train network reducing train error and I was thinking about how then test error ...
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How good (or bad) is my makeshift PRNG?
Say I have designed a makeshift PRNG for my personal amusement, now I would like to see how good it is. How do I benchmark its "randomness"? Ideally, I want to know a statistics test, such that if I ...
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How to go about designing a quiz that changes difficulty based on user performance?
I thought about using a machine learning algorithm to learn the performance patterns of the quiz taker and model the next quiz based on how he/she performed. So each question will have a difficulty ...
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identify abrupt frame changes in a video
The frames of live streams or videos, in general, do not flow smoothly. A sports game would have multiple cameras recording the game and hence, there will be camera switches in the stream. I am ...
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probability of collision
my data's range is from 1 to 9 and I have two subsets of integers from this range.
the hash function takes each of this subsets and calculate product of these three integers and maps this set to the ...
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Optimize Algorithm For Shut in Box Game
This game is a simplified version of Shut the Box. There are 9 tiles (1,2,3,4,5...9). The initial tiles are unflipped. You have 2 dices.
Each round, the player rolls the 2 dices and their sum is S.
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Is there a fast algorithm for computing the rolling mode of an array of integers?
I was wondering if there exists an efficient algorithm for calculating the "rolling mode of an array of integers.
By rolling mode I mean that we have an array of integers of size $n$ and a sliding ...
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Median of two sorted arrays of different size in logarithmic time?
The solution given in Cormen is as follows:
Reading this solution, the first doubt that comes in my mind is what if the median lies in array B. According to this solution, we are applying binary ...
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Locality sensitive hashing with non-scalal values
Locality sensitive hashing works well when matching is between vectors of scalars, but I now need to extend LSH to compare matrices. Each matrix is formed of n readings from m sensors forming a n by m ...
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How to find a possibility of match in Naive Bayes Classifier?
My math level is very very poor so I can't get the statistics.
Can anyone explain in simple words?
I.e. if I have frequency data:
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Testing two distributions, both accept null hypothesis
I have a sample that is collected to verify the accuracy of a new random number generator.
Applying the goodness of fit test to check if this sample comes from the Standard Normal Distribution and ...
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Examples of bad statistics in Computer Science
I am preparing class materials for the applied statistics class for Ph.D. students and want to present them with examples of bad statistics in different fields of computer science. I am especially ...
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What is the reason behind getting same result by maximum likelihood estimate and smoothing?
I know that Good-Turing smoothing helps us to trim a bit of probability from some more frequent events and give it to the events we've never seen. Thus it keeps our model from assigning zero ...
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SimRank++ on a weighted graph (why the formula reflects the influncee of the weight)
In the paper "Simrank++：Query Rewriting through Link Analysis of the Click Graph"(http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/1/1453903.pdf), the formula to compute the similarity between $q$ and $q'$ is as follows:
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Inequality over the entropy of an integer-valued random variable
I stumbled upon this inequality over a course on Information Theory :
If $Z\in\mathbb{N}$ with finite mean, then $H(Z) \leq E(Z)\times h(\frac 1 {E(Z)})$ where $h$ is the binary entropy function
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Applying graph “adjustment” algorithms to Elo rating system
I'm trying to address what I perceive to be a potential shortcoming in the Elo Rating System (predominantly used by the international Chess community to rate + rank players). I have a two-player game ...
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maximizing inner product of vectors in an ellipsoid and a given vector
I have been wrestling with this for quite a long time but couldn't convince myself that the following is true:
What I do understand: $\theta_a$ denotes the set of points that are within the ellipsoid....
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Update model parameter with new data, discarding old data
I have this dataset, and I am using y = (a * x^n) / (b + x^n) Hill function as the model, where a is the limit of the Hill curve,...
