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most citedA Kernel Method for Exact Tail Asymptotics --- Random Walks in the Quarter Plane

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46 papers

math.ST2026

Scale Analysis and Shape Selection for the Generalized Gaussian Mechanism under Approximate Differential Privacy

Xiang Zhang, Mohamedou Ould Haye, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

Differential privacy provides a rigorous framework for protecting private information, typically achieved by adding random noise to query results. The generalized Gaussian family i…

math.PR2026

Matrix-analytic methods for queues with Marshall--Olkin dependent servers

Qihui Bu, Suman Thapa, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

We study multiserver queues with Marshall--Olkin dependent service mechanisms, heterogeneous servers, and fixed idle-set assignment. An explicit matrix-analytic solution links the…

math.NA2026

GTH Algorithm, Censored Markov Chains, and -Factorization in Block-Form

Qihui Bu, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

In 1985, Grassmann, Taksar, and Heyman published their celebrated paper, in which they introduced a numerically stable algorithm for computing the stationary probabilities of a fin…

math.PR2025

Markov Modelling Approach for Queues with Correlated Service Times -- the Model

Suman Thapa, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

Demand for studying queueing systems with multiple servers providing correlated services was created about 60 years ago, motivated by various applications. In recent years, the imp…

math.ST2024

Statistical inference for mean-field queueing systems

Ioannis Lambadaris, Ahmed Sid-Ali, Wei Sun +1

Mean-field limits have been used now as a standard tool in approximations, including for networks with a large number of nodes. Statistical inference on mean-filed models has attra…

math.OC2024

Exponentially Weighted Algorithm for Online Network Resource Allocation with Long-Term Constraints

Ahmed Sid-Ali, Ioannis Lambadaris, Yiqiang Q. Zhao +2

This paper studies an online optimal resource reservation problem in communication networks with job transfers where the goal is to minimize the reservation cost while maintaining…

stat.ML2023

Online Optimization for Network Resource Allocation and Comparison with Reinforcement Learning Techniques

Ahmed Sid-Ali, Ioannis Lambadaris, Yiqiang Q. Zhao +2

We tackle in this paper an online network resource allocation problem with job transfers. The network is composed of many servers connected by communication links. The system opera…

cs.CR2023

Robbed withdrawal

Ze Chen, Ruichao Jiang, Javad Tavakoli +1

In this article we show that Theorem 2 in Lie et al. (2023) is incorrect. Since Wombat Exchange, a decentralized exchange, is built upon Lie et al. (2023) and Theorem 2 is fundamen…

math.OC2023★ 1 cited

Online Optimization for Randomized Network Resource Allocation with Long-Term Constraints

Ahmed Sid-Ali, Ioannis Lambadaris, Yiqiang Q. Zhao +2

In this paper, we study an optimal online resource reservation problem in a simple communication network. The network is composed of two compute nodes linked by a local communicati…

cs.LG2022

Hitting time for Markov decision process

Ruichao Jiang, Javad Tavakoli, Yiqinag Zhao

We define the hitting time for a Markov decision process (MDP). We do not use the hitting time of the Markov process induced by the MDP because the induced chain may not have a sta…

math.PR2022

Matrix-analytic methods for solving Poisson's equation with applications to Markov chains of GI/G/1-type

Jinpeng Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

In this paper, we are devoted to developing matrix-analytic methods for solving Poisson's equation for irreducible and positive recurrent discrete-time Markov chains (DTMCs). Two s…

math.DG2022

Laplacian operator on statistical manifold

Ruichao Jiang, Javad Tavakoli, Yiqiang Zhao

In this paper, we define a Laplacian operator on a statistical manifold, called the vector Laplacian. This vector Laplacian incorporates information from the Amari-Chentsov tensor.…

math.PR2021

Local stability of McKean-Vlasov equations arising from heterogeneous Gibbs systems using limit of relative entropies

D. A. Dawson, A. Sid-Ali, Y. Q. Zhao

A family of heterogeneous mean-field systems with jumps is analyzed. These systems are constructed as a Gibbs measure on block graphs. When the total number of particles goes to in…

math.PR2021

Large-time behavior of finite-state mean-field systems with multi-classes

Donald A. Dawson, Ahmed Sid-Ali, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

We study in this paper the large-time asymptotics of the empirical vector associated with a family of finite-state mean-field systems with multi-classes. The empirical vector is co…

math.PR2021★ 1 cited

GTH Algorithm, Censored Markov Chains, and -Factorization

Yiqiang Q. Zhao

In this paper, we provide a review on the GTH algorithm, which is a numerically stable algorithm for computing stationary probabilities of a Markov chain. Mathematically the GTH al…

q-fin.RM2021

Estimating value at risk and conditional tail expectation for extreme and aggregate risks

Suman Thapa, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

In this paper, we investigate risk measures such as value at risk (VaR) and the conditional tail expectation (CTE) of the extreme (maximum and minimum) and the aggregate (total) of…

math.PR2021

Construction of New Copulas with Queueing Application

Suman Thapa, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

In this paper, we construct a bound copula, which can reach both Frechet's lower and upper bounds for perfect positive and negative dependence cases. Since it covers a wide range o…

math.PR2021★ 1 cited

Equilibrium and Socially optimal of a double-sided queueing system with two-mass point matching time

Zhen Wang, Cheryl Yang, Liwei Liu +1

We study a passenger-taxi double-ended queue with impatient passengers and two-point matching time in this paper. The system considered in this paper is different from those consid…

math.PR2021

Kernel Method -- An Analytic Approach for Tail Asymptotics in Stationary Probabilities of 2-Dimensional Queueing Systems

Yiqiang Q. Zhao

In this paper, we provide a review on the kernel method, which is one of the options for characterizing so-called exact tail asymptotic properties in stationary probabilities of tw…

math.PR2021

Augmented truncation approximations to the solution of Poisson's equation for Markov chains

Jinpeng Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

Poisson's equation has a lot of applications in various areas. Usually it is hard to derive the explicit expression of the solution of Poisson's equation for a Markov chain on an i…

math.PR2020★ 1 cited

Propagation of chaos and large deviations in mean-field models with jumps on block-structured networks

Donald A. Dawson, Ahmed Sid-Ali, Yiqiang Q. Zhao

A system of interacting multiclass finite-state jump processes is analyzed. The model under consideration consists of a block-structured network with dynamically changing multi-col…

math.DG2020★ 2 cited

Information geometry and Frobenius algebra

Ruichao Jiang, Javad Tavakoli, Yiqiang Zhao

We show that a Frobenius sturcture is equivalent to a dually flat sturcture in information geometry. We define a multiplication structure on the tangent spaces of statistical manif…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 9 cited

Electric Polarization in Inhomogeneous Crystals

Yiqiang Zhao, Yang Gao, Di Xiao

We derive the charge density up to second order in spatial gradient in inhomogeneous crystals using the semiclassical coarse graining procedure based on the wave packet method. It…

math.NT2020★ 1 cited

An upper bound and criteria for the Galois group of weighted walks with rational coefficients in the quarter plane

Ruichao Jiang, Javad Tavakoli, Yiqiang Zhao

Using Mazur's theorem on torsions of elliptic curves, an upper bound 24 for the order of the finite Galois group associated with weighted walks in the quarter plane $…