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20242026
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5 papers

math.PR2026

History estimation in random recursive trees: Pointwise approach via iterated Jordan centralities

Johannes Bäumler, Simon Briend, Joost Jorritsma

We study the problem of estimating the arrival times of vertices in a uniform random recursive tree from its unlabeled structure. We adopt a pointwise perspective and analyze the d…

math.PR2026

Does freezing impede the growth of random recursive trees?

Anna Brandenberger, Simon Briend, Hannah Cairns +2

Uniform attachment with freezing is an extension of the classical model of random recursive trees, in which trees are recursively built by attaching new vertices to old ones. In th…

stat.ML2025

On the quality of randomized approximations of Tukey's depth

Simon Briend, Gábor Lugosi, Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira

Tukey's depth (or halfspace depth) is a widely used measure of centrality for multivariate data. However, exact computation of Tukey's depth is known to be a hard problem in high d…

stat.ML2025

Broadcasting in random recursive dags

Simon Briend, Luc Devroye, Gabor Lugosi

A uniform -{\sc dag} generalizes the uniform random recursive tree by picking parents uniformly at random from the existing nodes. It starts with ''roots''. Each of the…

stat.ML2024

Estimating the history of a random recursive tree

Simon Briend, Christophe Giraud, Gábor Lugosi +1

This paper studies the problem of estimating the order of arrival of the vertices in a random recursive tree. Specifically, we study two fundamental models: the uniform attachment…