Shuhei MANO

E-mail: smano at ism.ac.jp

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8562, Japan

More information is available on my page in Researchmap.

Research Interests

I work in probability and statistics. My interest lies in the structure of models and translating it into algorithms for computation and inference.

Recent Papers

1. A class of Gaussian fields on Z^d_q, with Robert Griffiths. arXiv: 2602.19469
2. Gaussian free fields on Hamming graphs and lattice spin systems. arXiv: 2512.24199
3. A class of long range circulant random walks on Z_q^d, with Robert Griffiths. Stoch. Proc. Appl. 201: 105038, 21pp. (2026) paper arXiv: 2510.22554
4. Asymptotic bias reduction of maximum likelihood estimates via penalized likelihoods with differential geometry, with Masayo Y. Hirose. Bernoulli 32(3): 1922-1946 (2026) paper arXiv: 2011.14747
5. Symmetric quantum walks on Hamming graphs and their limit distributions, with Robert Griffiths. Symmetry, Integrability and Geom. Methods and Appl. (SIGMA) 22(063), 22pp. (2026) paper arXiv: 2509.26243
6. Algorithm for direct sampling from conditional distributions of toric models, with Nobuki Takayama. Algebraic Stat. 17(1): 151-181 (2026) paper arXiv: 2110.14992
7. Spectral analysis of hierarchical continuous-time quantum walks, with Jiro Akahori, Yusuke Ide, Tomoki Kato, Norio Konno, and Akihiro Narimatsu. Int. J. Quantum Inf. 2650014, 12pp. (2026) paper arXiv: 2510.12043
8. Direct sampling from conditional distributions by sequential maximum likelihood estimations. Algebraic Stat. 16(2): 175-199 (2025) paper arXiv: 2502.00812 poster code in R
9. Representations of finite Markov chains and direct sampling. J. Japan Stat. Soc. Ser. J. 55(1): 177-194 (2025) paper (in Japanese with English abstract)
10. Asymptotic UMVUE: Asymptotic moments matching the UMVUE under the Ewens sampling formula, with Masayo Y. Hirose. Calcutta Stat. Assoc. Bull. 75(2): 197-219 (2023) paper
11. A measure-on-graph-valued diffusion: a particle system with collisions and its applications. Mathematics. Special Issue: Random Combinatorial Structures,10: 4081, 21pp. (2022)

Book

• Partitions, Hypergeometric Systems, and Dirichlet Processes in Statistics, Springer, 2018. errata

Miscellanea

• Genji-ko is a clustering: around Bell's number. Movie at Kyoto University (in Japanese). A public lecture in 2021 around integer partitions: from a classic art of refinement to deep learning
• Recognition, a recreation in Bayesian updating. Column of Inst. Stat. Math. News 129 (2015)

Last updated: July 8, 2026