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Main Authors: Kryhin, Serhii, Mouzykantskii, Tatiana, Sudhir, Vivishek
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22294
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author Kryhin, Serhii
Mouzykantskii, Tatiana
Sudhir, Vivishek
author_facet Kryhin, Serhii
Mouzykantskii, Tatiana
Sudhir, Vivishek
contents The extraction of signals from noise is a common problem in all areas of science and engineering. A particularly useful version is that of forecasting: determining a causal filter that estimates a future value of a hidden process from past observations. Current techniques for deriving the filter require that the noise be well described by rational power spectra. However, scale-free noises, whose spectra scale as a non-integer power of frequency, are ubiquitous in practice. We establish a method, together with performance guarantees, that solves the forecasting problem in the presence of scale-free noise. Via the duality between estimation and control, our technique can be used to design control for distributed systems. These results will have wide-ranging applications in neuroscience, finance, fluid dynamics, and quantum measurements.
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spellingShingle Forecasting in the presence of scale-free noise
Kryhin, Serhii
Mouzykantskii, Tatiana
Sudhir, Vivishek
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
Signal Processing
The extraction of signals from noise is a common problem in all areas of science and engineering. A particularly useful version is that of forecasting: determining a causal filter that estimates a future value of a hidden process from past observations. Current techniques for deriving the filter require that the noise be well described by rational power spectra. However, scale-free noises, whose spectra scale as a non-integer power of frequency, are ubiquitous in practice. We establish a method, together with performance guarantees, that solves the forecasting problem in the presence of scale-free noise. Via the duality between estimation and control, our technique can be used to design control for distributed systems. These results will have wide-ranging applications in neuroscience, finance, fluid dynamics, and quantum measurements.
title Forecasting in the presence of scale-free noise
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22294