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Publications (34)

math.ST2017

Low-rank diffusion matrix estimation for high-dimensional time-changed Lévy processes

Denis Belomestny, Mathias Trabs

The estimation of the diffusion matrix of a high-dimensional, possibly time-changed Lévy process is studied, based on discrete observations of the process with a fixed distan…

math.ST2024

A Wasserstein perspective of Vanilla GANs

Lea Kunkel, Mathias Trabs

The empirical success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) caused an increasing interest in theoretical research. The statistical literature is mainly focused on Wasserstein G…

math.ST2014

Calibration of self-decomposable Lévy models

Mathias Trabs

We study the nonparametric calibration of exponential Lévy models with infinite jump activity. In particular our analysis applies to self-decomposable processes whose jump density…

math.ST2014

High-frequency Donsker theorems for Lévy measures

Richard Nickl, Markus Reiß, Jakob Söhl +1

Donsker-type functional limit theorems are proved for empirical processes arising from discretely sampled increments of a univariate Lévy process. In the asymptotic regime the sam…

math.PR2015

Rough differential equations driven by signals in Besov spaces

David J. Prömel, Mathias Trabs

Rough differential equations are solved for signals in general Besov spaces unifying in particular the known results in Hölder and p-variation topology. To this end the paracontro…

math.ST2026

Statistical inference for the stochastic wave equation based on discrete observations

Anton Tiepner, Mathias Trabs, Eric Ziebell

The wave speed of a stochastic wave equation driven by Riesz noise on the unbounded multidimensional spatial domain is estimated based on discrete measurements. Central limit theor…

math.ST2019

On central limit theorems for power variations of the solution to the stochastic heat equation

Markus Bibinger, Mathias Trabs

We consider the stochastic heat equation whose solution is observed discretely in space and time. An asymptotic analysis of power variations is presented including the proof of a c…

math.ST2018

Sparse covariance matrix estimation in high-dimensional deconvolution

Denis Belomestny, Mathias Trabs, Alexandre B. Tsybakov

We study the estimation of the covariance matrix of a -dimensional normal random vector based on independent observations corrupted by additive noise. Only a general no…

math.ST2015

Spectral estimation for diffusions with random sampling times

Jakub Chorowski, Mathias Trabs

The nonparametric estimation of the volatility and the drift coefficient of a scalar diffusion is studied when the process is observed at random time points. The constructed estima…

math.ST2025

Asymptotic confidence bands for centered purely random forests

Natalie Neumeyer, Jan Rabe, Mathias Trabs

In a multivariate nonparametric regression setting we construct explicit asymptotic uniform confidence bands for centered purely random forests. Since the most popular example in t…

cs.LG2024

Calibrating Bayesian Generative Machine Learning for Bayesiamplification

Sebastian Bieringer, Sascha Diefenbacher, Gregor Kasieczka +1

Recently, combinations of generative and Bayesian machine learning have been introduced in particle physics for both fast detector simulation and inference tasks. These neural netw…

math.ST2018

Bayesian inverse problems with unknown operators

Mathias Trabs

We consider the Bayesian approach to linear inverse problems when the underlying operator depends on an unknown parameter. Allowing for finite dimensional as well as infinite dimen…

stat.ML2023

Dimensionality Reduction and Wasserstein Stability for Kernel Regression

Stephan Eckstein, Armin Iske, Mathias Trabs

In a high-dimensional regression framework, we study consequences of the naive two-step procedure where first the dimension of the input variables is reduced and second, the reduce…

math.ST2019

Volatility estimation for stochastic PDEs using high-frequency observations

Markus Bibinger, Mathias Trabs

We study the parameter estimation for parabolic, linear, second-order, stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) observing a mild solution on a discrete grid in time and sp…

hep-ph2024

Classifier Surrogates: Sharing AI-based Searches with the World

Sebastian Bieringer, Gregor Kasieczka, Jan Kieseler +1

In recent years, neural network-based classification has been used to improve data analysis at collider experiments. While this strategy proves to be hugely successful, the underly…

math.ST2019

Parameter estimation for SPDEs based on discrete observations in time and space

Florian Hildebrandt, Mathias Trabs

Parameter estimation for a parabolic linear stochastic partial differential equation in one space dimension is studied observing the solution field on a discrete grid in a fixed bo…

math.ST2016

Adaptive confidence bands for Markov chains and diffusions: Estimating the invariant measure and the drift

Jakob Söhl, Mathias Trabs

As a starting point we prove a functional central limit theorem for estimators of the invariant measure of a geometrically ergodic Harris-recurrent Markov chain in a multi-scale sp…

math.PR2014

On infinitely divisible distributions with polynomially decaying characteristic functions

Mathias Trabs

We provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the characteristics of an infinitely divisible distribution under which its characteristic function decays polynomially. Unde…

math.ST2023

Dispersal density estimation across scales

Marc Hoffmann, Mathias Trabs

We consider a space structured population model generated by two point clouds: a homogeneous Poisson process with intensity as a model for a parent generation toge…

stat.ML2026

On the minimax optimality of Flow Matching through the connection to kernel density estimation

Lea Kunkel, Mathias Trabs

Flow Matching has recently gained attention in generative modeling as a simple and flexible alternative to diffusion models. While existing statistical guarantees adapt tools from…

stat.ML2024

AdamMCMC: Combining Metropolis Adjusted Langevin with Momentum-based Optimization

Sebastian Bieringer, Gregor Kasieczka, Maximilian F. Steffen +1

Uncertainty estimation is a key issue when considering the application of deep neural network methods in science and engineering. In this work, we introduce a novel algorithm that…

q-fin.PR2012

Option calibration of exponential Lévy models: Confidence intervals and empirical results

Jakob Söhl, Mathias Trabs

Observing prices of European put and call options, we calibrate exponential Lévy models nonparametrically. We discuss the efficient implementation of the spectral estimation proce…

hep-ph2023

Calomplification -- The Power of Generative Calorimeter Models

Sebastian Bieringer, Anja Butter, Sascha Diefenbacher +7

Motivated by the high computational costs of classical simulations, machine-learned generative models can be extremely useful in particle physics and elsewhere. They become especia…

math.ST2015

Quantile estimation for Lévy measures

Mathias Trabs

Generalizing the concept of quantiles to the jump measure of a Lévy process, the generalized quantiles , for , are given by the smallest values such that a jum…

math.ST2023

Nonparametric calibration for stochastic reaction-diffusion equations based on discrete observations

Florian Hildebrandt, Mathias Trabs

Nonparametric estimation for semilinear SPDEs, namely stochastic reaction-diffusion equations in one space dimension, is studied. We consider observations of the solution field on…

math.ST2014

Information bounds for inverse problems with application to deconvolution and Lévy models

Mathias Trabs

If a functional in an inverse problem can be estimated with parametric rate, then the minimax rate gives no information about the ill-posedness of the problem. To have a more preci…

math.ST2023

A PAC-Bayes oracle inequality for sparse neural networks

Maximilian F. Steffen, Mathias Trabs

We study the Gibbs posterior distribution for sparse deep neural nets in a nonparametric regression setting. The posterior can be accessed via Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorith…

math.ST2016

Adaptive quantile estimation in deconvolution with unknown error distribution

Itai Dattner, Markus Reiß, Mathias Trabs

Quantile estimation in deconvolution problems is studied comprehensively. In particular, the more realistic setup of unknown error distributions is covered. Our plug-in method is b…

math.ST2026

Asymptotic confidence bands for the histogram regression estimator

Natalie Neumeyer, Jan Rabe, Mathias Trabs

Asymptotic uniform confidence bands are constructed for a multivariate nonparametric regression model with heteroscedastic noise, employing histogram estimators under flexible part…

math.PR2019

Paracontrolled distribution approach to stochastic Volterra equations

David J. Prömel, Mathias Trabs

Based on the notion of paracontrolled distributions, we provide existence and uniqueness results for rough Volterra equations of convolution type with potentially singular kernels…

stat.ME2018

Profiting from correlations: Adjusted estimators for categorical data

Tobias Niebuhr, Mathias Trabs

To take sample biases and skewness in the observations into account, practitioners frequently weight their observations according to some marginal distribution. The present paper d…

math.CA2025

Characterization of Besov spaces with dominating mixed smoothness by differences

Paul Nikolaev, David J. Prömel, Mathias Trabs

Besov spaces with dominating mixed smoothness, on the product of the real line and the torus as well as bounded domains, are studied. A characterization of these function spaces in…

stat.ML2025

The surrogate Gibbs-posterior of a corrected stochastic MALA: Towards uncertainty quantification for neural networks

Sebastian Bieringer, Gregor Kasieczka, Maximilian F. Steffen +1

MALA is a popular gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo method to access the Gibbs-posterior distribution. Stochastic MALA (sMALA) scales to large data sets, but changes the targ…

math.ST2012

A uniform central limit theorem and efficiency for deconvolution estimators

Jakob Söhl, Mathias Trabs

We estimate linear functionals in the classical deconvolution problem by kernel estimators. We obtain a uniform central limit theorem with -rate on the assumption that th…