Revealing the fundamental principles of how neural circuits are organized and operate is a key challenge in neuroscience. In the past 60 years, intensive effort has been invested in characterizing the ...

TensorFlow Probability is a library for probabilistic reasoning and statistical analysis in TensorFlow. As part of the TensorFlow ecosystem, TensorFlow Probability provides integration of ...

Abstract: This paper studies the allocation of simulation effort in a ranking-and-selection (R&S) problem with the goal of selecting a system whose performance is within a given tolerance of the best.

Food safety is crucial to both national development and public well-being. Amid the increasingly complex food safety landscape, regulating firms' production practices is essential for effectively ...

Abstract: Importance sampling (IS) is a powerful tool for rare-event estimation. However, in many settings, we need to estimate not only the performance expectation but also its gradient. In this ...

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