This paper discusses the possibility of truly nonparametric inference about functionals of an unknown density. Examples considered include: discrete functionals, such as the number of modes of a ...

We present a method of estimating density-related functionals, without prior knowledge of the density's functional form. The approach revolves around the specification of an explicit formula for a new ...

As an alternative to using these hand-crafted functionals, Microsoft’s Paola Gori-Giorgi, Jan Hermann, Rianne van den Berg, and colleagues built a deep learning model that inferred an XC ...