Expected excess-risk bound for empirical risk minimization Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
With the Rademacher convention, an empirical risk minimizer has expected excess risk at most twice the Rademacher complexity of its loss class.
Rademacher complexity of quadratic forms Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Frobenius norm Rademacher calculation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Rademacher contraction lemma Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Composition with an -Lipschitz scalar map increases Rademacher complexity by at most the factor after centering at zero.
Rademacher complexity of a convex hull Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A linear functional has the same supremum over a class and its convex hull. Thus taking convex combinations does not increase empirical Rademacher complexity.
Rademacher bound for bounded weighted indicators Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For and a binary class of VC dimension at most , the vectors have norm at most and at most distinct values. The Massart finite-class lemma gives
Massart finite-class lemma Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
Square quotient model of the two-sphere Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Non-Hausdorff quotient of the real line by rational translation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Identify when . Every nonempty saturated open subset of meets every other one because rational translates of any open interval meet any prescribed nonempty open interval. The quotient has multiple points but no two nonempty disjoint open subsets, so it is not Hausdorff.
Universal property of the quotient topology Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
If is the quotient map and a continuous map is constant on each equivalence class, there is a unique continuous map satisfying . It is given by ; continuity follows becausefor every open .
Quotient map Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
M/G/1 queue Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
An queue has Poisson arrivals, independent identically distributed service times, and one server. If service has mean and , its mean busy period isThis follows by decomposing the busy period into the first service and the busy-period descendants of arrivals during that service.
Poisson arrivals see time averages Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Poisson arrivals see time averages says that an exogenous, homogeneous Poisson process samples prearrival states with the same long-run frequencies as observation over time, provided the observed system cannot anticipate future arrivals and the relevant time averages exist. The system may depend on all past arrivals: an ordinary queue does. The required independence is between future increments of the Poisson process and the history available to the system, including its service information. Assume measurable state observations with ordinary piecewise continuous functions as sample paths; write for the state immediately before time .
For a state set , let count offered arrivals by time and let be their times. With a positive finite constant arrival rate, the PASTA equality isalmost surely when the time limit exists. The indicator functions count visits on the left and time spent on the right. For a stationary process with ergodicity, the right side is the stationary probability of . It matters that the arriving customer has not yet changed the observed state.
In the M/M/1 utilization and delay example, server utilization is . Thus PASTA says that 80 percent of offered arrivals find the server busy and 20 percent find the whole queue empty. If an offered arrival seeing population is admitted with conditional probability , using fresh randomness independent of that state, the accepted fraction is , where is the stationary distribution. Multiplying this fraction by the offered rate gives the admitted queue throughput when every admitted customer eventually completes service. Accepted arrivals are selected by state and need not themselves form a Poisson process or see the unconditioned time frequencies.
Arbitrary arrivals need not see time averages. Suppose a customer arrives every two minutes and its service time is exactly one minute, with one server and no other customers. The server is busy half the time, but every arrival finds it idle. A uniformly random initial phase can even make the occupancy a stationary process, without repairing the disagreement. Nevertheless Little's law still gives , with rate measured in customers per minute. This separates Little's law from PASTA.
Ronald W. Wolff's 1982 paper gave a general PASTA theorem under nonanticipation, rather than requiring the observed system to be independent of its driving Poisson process. Its Theorem 1 compares the two long-run fractions; stationarity is a way to establish convergence, not the central sampling condition. [ref]
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/opre.30.2.223. Wolff, Poisson Arrivals See Time Averages, Operations Research 30(2), 223-231
. [ref]https://www.math.purdue.edu/~peterson/Teaching/532/PASTA.pdf. Original paper, section 1 and Theorem 1
. Principal symbol of a partial differential equation Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For a scalar differential operator of order , the principal symbol replaces each order- derivative by and discards lower-order terms. For a quasilinear partial differential equation, the coefficients are evaluated at the prescribed lower-order data.
p-Laplacian Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
The p-Laplacian is the nonlinear divergence-form operatorIt is the Euler-Lagrange operator of the p-energy. For it is degenerately elliptic where .
Quasiconvex subgroup Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
A subgroup is quasiconvex when it is a quasiconvex subset of a Cayley graph. In a hyperbolic group, a finitely generated subgroup is quasiconvex exactly when it is quasi-isometrically embedded.
Quasi-steady rate law for a two-substrate allosteric enzyme Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For sequential binding with dimensionless parameters , the reduced product rate has the formIt is quadratic at low substrate concentration and saturates at high concentration.
Quasigeodesic Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Bilipschitz equivalence Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A bilipschitz equivalence distorts all distances by multiplicative constants bounded away from zero and infinity. Every bilipschitz equivalence is a quasi-isometry.
Quasi-isometrically embedded subgroup Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
A finitely generated subgroup is quasi-isometrically embedded when its inclusion, equipped with word metrics from finite generating sets, is a quasi-isometric embedding. This property is independent of those generating sets.
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