Anna Brandenberger
MIT Mathematics

abrande[at]mit.edu

Here are some relevant publications. For a complete list, see Google Scholar.

detection and inference in random networks

  • Detecting Abrupt Changes in Point Processes: Fundamental Limits and Applications, with Elchanan Mossel and Anirudh Sridhar. Preprint. 2025. arXiv.
  • Finding the root in random nearest neighbor trees, with Cassandra Marcussen, Elchanan Mossel and Madhu Sudan. Preprint. 2024. arXiv.
  • Leaf Stripping on Uniform Attachment Trees, with Louigi Addario-Berry, Simon Briend, Nicolas Broutin and Gábor Lugosi. 2024. Random Structures & Algorithms, 67: e70023. arXiv. journal.
  • Errors are Robustly Tamed in Cumulative Knowledge Processes, with Cassandra Marcussen, Elchanan Mossel and Madhu Sudan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 (5) (2025). Conference version in COLT 2024. arXiv. journal.
  • Root estimation in Galton-Watson trees, with Luc Devroye and Marcel Goh. Random Structures & Algorithms 61: 520-542 (2022). arXiv. journal.

structure of random trees and graphs

  • Asymptotics for the harmonic descent chain and applications to critical beta-splitting trees, with Byron Chin and Elchanan Mossel. Preprint. 2025. arXiv.
  • Does freezing impede the growth of random recursive trees? with Simon Briend, Hannah Cairns, Robin Khanfir and Igor Kortchemski. Preprint. 2025. arXiv.
  • Temporal connectivity of Random Geometric Graphs, with Serte Donderwinkel, Céline Kerriou, Gábor Lugosi and Rivka Mitchell. Preprint. 2025. arXiv.
  • Universal height and width bounds for random trees, with Louigi Addario-Berry, Jad Hamdan and Céline Kerriou. Electronic Journal of Probability 27: 1-24 (2022). arXiv. journal.
  • The Horton-Strahler number of conditioned Galton-Watson trees, with Luc Devroye and Tommy Reddad. Electronic Journal of Probability 26: 1-29 (2021). journal.

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