CoMEt: a statistical approach to identify combinations of mutually exclusive alterations in cancer

MDM Leiserson, HT Wu, F Vandin, BJ Raphael - Genome biology, 2015 - Springer
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease with different combinations of genetic alterations driving
its development in different individuals. We introduce CoMEt, an algorithm to identify …

A fast and unbiased procedure to randomize ecological binary matrices with fixed row and column totals

G Strona, D Nappo, F Boccacci, S Fattorini… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
A well-known problem in numerical ecology is how to recombine presence-absence
matrices without altering row and column totals. A few solutions have been proposed, but all …

[HTML][HTML] From point process observations to collective neural dynamics: Nonlinear Hawkes process GLMs, low-dimensional dynamics and coarse graining

W Truccolo - Journal of Physiology-Paris, 2016 - Elsevier
This review presents a perspective on capturing collective dynamics in recorded neuronal
ensembles based on multivariate point process models, inference of low-dimensional …

A Bayesian methodology for systemic risk assessment in financial networks

A Gandy, LAM Veraart - Management Science, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
We develop a Bayesian methodology for systemic risk assessment in financial networks
such as the interbank market. Nodes represent participants in the network, and weighted …

Neuronal ensemble synchrony during human focal seizures

W Truccolo, OJ Ahmed, MT Harrison… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Seizures are classically characterized as the expression of hypersynchronous neural
activity, yet the true degree of synchrony in neuronal spiking (action potentials) during …

A method for making inferences in network analysis: Comment on Forbes, Wright, Markon, and Krueger (2017).

D Steinley, M Hoffman, MJ Brusco, KJ Sher - 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Forbes, Wright, Markon, and Krueger (2017) make a compelling case for
proceeding cautiously with respect to the overinterpretation and dissemination of results …

Reparameterizing the birkhoff polytope for variational permutation inference

S Linderman, G Mena, H Cooper… - International …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many matching, tracking, sorting, and ranking problems require probabilistic reasoning
about possible permutations, a set that grows factorially with dimension. Combinatorial …

Comparing QUBO models for quantum annealing: integer encodings for permutation problems

P Codognet - International Transactions in Operational …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
QUBO (quadratic unconstrained binary optimization) has become the modeling language for
quantum annealing and quantum‐inspired annealing solvers. We present different …

Lower bounds for contingency tables via Lorentzian polynomials

P Brändén, J Leake, I Pak - Israel Journal of Mathematics, 2023 - Springer
We present a new lower bound on the number of contingency tables, improving upon and
extending previous lower bounds by Barvinok [Bar09, Bar16] and Gurvits [Gur15]. As an …

[HTML][HTML] Adjustable network reconstruction with applications to CDS exposures

A Gandy, LAM Veraart - Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper is concerned with reconstructing weighted directed networks from the total in-and
out-weight of each node. This problem arises for example in the analysis of systemic risk of …