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Fine-tuning and naturalness, the sensitivity of low-energy observables to small changes in the fundamental parameters of a theory, are cornerstones of physics beyond the Standard Model. We propose a new measure of fine-tuning based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 James Halverson , Thomas R. Harvey , Michael Nee

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is a fundamental quantity to represent the characteristics of a stochastic model, including deep neural networks (DNNs). The present study reveals novel statistics of FIM that are universal among a wide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-10 Ryo Karakida , Shotaro Akaho , Shun-ichi Amari

We address the fundamental limits of learning unknown parameters of any stochastic process from time-series data, and discover exact closed-form expressions for how optimal inference scales with observation length. Given a parametrized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Paul M. Riechers

In many statistical applications that concern mathematical psychologists, the concept of Fisher information plays an important role. In this tutorial we clarify the concept of Fisher information as it manifests itself across three different…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Alexander Ly , Maarten Marsman , Josine Verhagen , Raoul Grasman , Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

Structured optical beams possess rich spatial features that are commonly characterized using entropic measures of field complexity. However, such measures do not directly quantify the operational usefulness of optical structure for…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 J. Sumaya-Martinez , J. Mulia-Rodriguez

An Edgeworth-type expansion is established for the relative Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of sums of i.i.d. random variables, satisfying moment conditions. The validity of the central limit theorem is…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-05-01 S. G. Bobkov , G. P. Chistyakov , F. Götze

Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) sets the ultimate precision limit for parameter estimation and is therefore a central quantity in quantum metrology. In time-dependent many-body systems, however, maximizing QFI is a highly non-trivial task…

A common approach to analyzing categorical correlated time series data is to fit a generalized linear model (GLM) with past data as covariate inputs. There remain challenges to conducting inference for short time series length. By treating…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Xu Gao , Hernando Ombao , Daniel Gillen

Braunstein and Caves (1994) proposed to use Helstrom's {\em quantum information} number to define, meaningfully, a metric on the set of all possible states of a given quantum system. They showed that the quantum information is nothing else…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Barndorff-Nielsen , R. D. Gill

We prove that two well-known measures of information are interrelated in interesting and useful ways when applied to nonequilibrium circumstances. A nontrivial form of the lower bound for the Fisher information measure is derived in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-06 Takuya Yamano

We derive a connection between performance of estimators the performance of the ideal observer on related detection tasks. Specifically we show how Shannon Information for the task of detecting a change in a parameter is related to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Eric Clarkson

Training-free conditional diffusion models have received great attention in conditional image generation tasks. However, they require a computationally expensive conditional score estimator to let the intermediate results of each step in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kaiyu Song , Hanjiang Lai

The absence of compelling theoretical model requires the parameterizing the dark energy to probe its properties. The parametrization of the equation of state of the dark energy is a common method. We explore the theoretical optimization of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Seokcheon Lee

The subjects of the paper are the likelihood method (LM) and the expected Fisher information (FI) considered from the point od view of the construction of the physical models which originate in the statistical description of phenomena. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-10-08 E. W. Piotrowski , J. Sladkowski , J. Syska , S. Zajac

Scalable and effective exploration remains a key challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). While there are methods with optimality guarantees in the setting of discrete state and action spaces, these methods cannot be applied in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Rein Houthooft , Xi Chen , Yan Duan , John Schulman , Filip De Turck , Pieter Abbeel

This paper applies the recently axiomatized Optimum Information Principle (minimize the Kullback-Leibler information subject to all relevant information) to nonparametric density estimation, which provides a theoretical foundation as well…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-28 Alexis Akira Toda

For latent class models where the class weights depend on individual covariates, we derive a simple expression for computing the score vector and a convenient hybrid between the observed and the expected information matrices which is always…

Computation · Statistics 2015-11-13 Antonio Forcina

This paper focuses on the problem of finding a particular data recommendation strategy based on the user preferences and a system expected revenue. To this end, we formulate this problem as an optimization by designing the recommendation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Shanyun Liu , Yunquan Dong , Pingyi Fan , Rui She , Shuo Wan

Fisher Information is a key notion in the whole field of quantum metrology. It allows for a direct quantification of maximal achievable precision of estimation of parameters encoded in quantum states using the most general quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Stanislaw Kurdzialek , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

Recently proposed methods in data subset selection, that is active learning and active sampling, use Fisher information, Hessians, similarity matrices based on gradients, and gradient lengths to estimate how informative data is for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Andreas Kirsch , Yarin Gal
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