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Reducing the error of Monte Carlo Algorithms by Learning Control Variates
Brendan D. Tracey, David H. Wolpert
Monte Carlo (MC) sampling algorithms are an extremely widely-used technique to estimate expectations of functions f(x), especially in high dimensions. Control variates are a very p…
physics.soc-ph2016
Dynamics of beneficial epidemics
Andrew Berdahl, Christa Brelsford, Caterina De Bacco +12
Pathogens can spread epidemically through populations. Beneficial contagions, such as viruses that enhance host survival or technological innovations that improve quality of life,…