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We study here the error of numerical integration on metric measure spaces adapted to a decomposition of the space into disjoint subsets. We consider both the error for a single given function, and the worst case error for all functions in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Luca Brandolini , William W. L. Chen , Leonardo Colzani , Giacomo Gigante , Giancarlo Travaglini

Analyzing correlation between variables is often both the tool and the goal of modern science. A crucial question is whether the correlation between two variables is a direct correlation or only an indirect correlation through a confounder.…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-22 Shengjun Wu , Jeffery Wu

Estimating the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between random variables is a fundamental problem in statistical analysis. For continuous random variables, traditional information-theoretic estimators scale poorly with dimension and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mikil Foss , Andrew Lamperski

Pinsker's inequality sets a lower bound on the Umegaki divergence of two quantum states in terms of their trace distance. In this work, we formulate corresponding estimates for a variety of quantum and classical divergences including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Kläre Wienecke , Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek

Score-matching generative models have proven successful at sampling from complex high-dimensional data distributions. In many applications, this distribution is believed to concentrate on a much lower $d$-dimensional manifold embedded into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-25 Peter Potaptchik , Iskander Azangulov , George Deligiannidis

In this paper we discuss various connections between geometric discrepancy measures, such as discrepancy with respect to convex sets (and convex sets with smooth boundary in particular), and applications to numerical analysis and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-18 Josef Dick

We establish quantitative comparisons between classical distances for probability distributions belonging to the class of convex probability measures. Distances include total variation distance, Wasserstein distance, Kullback-Leibler…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Arnaud Marsiglietti , Puja Pandey

We investigate the average coherence with respect to a complete set of complementary measurements. By using a Wigner-Yanase skew information-based coherence measure introduced in [Phys. Rev. A \textbf{96}, 022130, 2017], we evaluate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Bin Chen , Shao-Ming Fei

The purpose of this paper is twofold. On a technical side, we propose an extension of the Hausdorff distance from metric spaces to spaces equipped with asymmetric distance measures. Specifically, we focus on the family of Bregman…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Tuyen Pham , Hana Dal Poz Kouřimská , Hubert Wagner

Firstly, assuming Gaussianity, equations for the following information theory measures are presented: total correlation/coherence (TC), dual total correlation/coherence (DTC), O-information, TSE complexity, and redundancy-synergy index…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-18 Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui , Kieko Kochi , Toshihiko Kinoshita

Given $M \geq 2$ distributions defined on a general measurable space, we introduce a nonparametric (kernel) measure of multi-sample dissimilarity (KMD) -- a parameter that quantifies the difference between the $M$ distributions. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Zhen Huang , Bodhisattva Sen

We examine a family of intrinsic performance measures in terms of probability distributions that generalize Hellinger distance and Fisher information. They are applied to quantum metrology to assess the uncertainty in the detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Alfredo Luis , Alfonso Rodil

Generative models have achieved remarkable success across a range of applications, yet their evaluation still lacks principled uncertainty quantification. In this paper, we develop a method for comparing how close different generative…

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The asymmetric skew divergence smooths one of the distributions by mixing it, to a degree determined by the parameter $\lambda$, with the other distribution. Such divergence is an approximation of the KL divergence that does not require the…

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In this paper, we delve deeper into the Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence loss and mathematically prove that it is equivalent to the Decoupled Kullback-Leibler (DKL) Divergence loss that consists of (1) a weighted Mean Square Error (wMSE)…

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A well-known technique in estimating probabilities of rare events in general and in information theory in particular (used, e.g., in the sphere-packing bound), is that of finding a reference probability measure under which the event of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Rami Atar , Neri Merhav

It is often necessary to make sampling-based statistical inference about many probability distributions in parallel. Given a finite computational resource, this article addresses how to optimally divide sampling effort between the samplers…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-02-18 Nicholas Heard , Melissa Turcotte

Classical inequalities used in information theory such as those of de Bruijn, Fisher, and Kullback carry over from the setting of probability theory on Euclidean space to that of unimodular Lie groups. These are groups that posses…

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In traditional recommender system literature, diversity is often seen as the opposite of similarity, and typically defined as the distance between identified topics, categories or word models. However, this is not expressive of the social…

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