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Publications (6)

cs.AI2026

An AI system to help scientists write expert-level empirical software

Eser Aygün, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Gheorghe Comanici +39

The cycle of scientific discovery is frequently bottlenecked by the slow, manual creation of software to support computational experiments\cite{hannay2009how}. To address this, we…

quant-ph2020

Quantum Optimization with a Novel Gibbs Objective Function and Ansatz Architecture Search

Li Li, Minjie Fan, Marc Coram +2

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a standard method for combinatorial optimization with a gate-based quantum computer. The QAOA consists of a particular ansa…

stat.ME2012

A general spline representation for nonparametric and semiparametric density estimates using diffeomorphisms

Ethan Anderes, Marc Coram

A theorem of McCann shows that for any two absolutely continuous probability measures on R^d there exists a monotone transformation sending one probability measure to the other. A…

stat.ME2008

Two Dimensional Density Estimation using Smooth Invertible Transformations

Ethan Anderes, Marc Coram

We investigate the problem of estimating a smooth invertible transformation f when observing independent samples X_1, ..., X_n ~ P \circ f, where P is a known measure. We focus on…

stat.AP2007

Improving population-specific allele frequency estimates by adapting supplemental data: an empirical Bayes approach

Marc Coram, Hua Tang

Estimation of the allele frequency at genetic markers is a key ingredient in biological and biomedical research, such as studies of human genetic variation or of the genetic etiolo…

math.ST2006

Consistency of Bayes estimators of a binary regression function

Marc Coram, Steven P. Lalley

When do nonparametric Bayesian procedures ``overfit''? To shed light on this question, we consider a binary regression problem in detail and establish frequentist consistency for a…