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We study a differential geometric construction, the warped product, on the background geometry for information theory. Divergences, dual structures and symmetric 3-tensor are studied under this construction, and we show that warped product…

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Geometric data analysis and learning has emerged as a distinct and rapidly developing research area, increasingly recognized for its effectiveness across diverse applications. At the heart of this field lies curvature, a powerful and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yasharth Yadav , Kelin Xia

The identification of the interfacial molecules in fluid-fluid equilibrium is a long-standing problem in the area of simulation. We here propose a new point of view, making use of concepts taken from the field of computational geometry,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-30 Florencio Balboa Usabiaga , Daniel Duque

We develop a computational framework that leverages the features of sophisticated software tools and numerics to tackle some of the pressing issues in the realm of earth sciences. The algorithms to handle the physics of multiphase flow,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Saumik Dana , Xiaoxi Zhao , Birendra Jha

In this paper and a companion paper, we show how the framework of information geometry, a geometry of discrete probability distributions, can form the basis of a derivation of the quantum formalism. The derivation rests upon a few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-14 Philip Goyal

For decades, de Casteljau's algorithm has been used as a fundamental building block in curve and surface design and has found a wide range of applications in fields such as scientific computing, and discrete geometry to name but a few. With…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Martin Hanik , Esfandiar Nava-Yazdani , Christoph von Tycowicz

In this work we: (1) review likelihood-based inference for parameter estimation and the construction of confidence regions; and, (2) explore the use of techniques from information geometry, including geodesic curves and Riemann scalar…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-01 Jesse A Sharp , Alexander P Browning , Kevin Burrage , Matthew J Simpson

When dealing with a parametric statistical model, a Riemannian manifold can naturally appear by endowing the parameter space with the Fisher information metric. The geometry induced on the parameters by this metric is then referred to as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Florent Bouchard , Arnaud Breloy , Antoine Collas , Alexandre Renaux , Guillaume Ginolhac

Information geometry provides a geometric approach to families of statistical models. The key geometric structures are the Fisher quadratic form and the Amari-Chentsov tensor. In statistics, the notion of sufficient statistic expresses the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Nihat Ay , Jürgen Jost , Hông Vân Lê , Lorenz Schwachhöfer

Information geometry uses the formal tools of differential geometry to describe the space of probability distributions as a Riemannian manifold with an additional dual structure. The formal equivalence of compositional data with discrete…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Ionas Erb , Nihat Ay

We show that gamma distributions provide models for departures from randomness since every neighbourhood of an exponential distribution contains a neighbourhood of gamma distributions, using an information theoretic metric topology. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Khadiga Arwini , C. T. J. Dodson

The problem of mathematical modeling in geography is one of the most important strategies in order to establish the evolution and the prevision of geographical phenomena. Models must have a simplified structure, to reflect essential…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Ionica Soare , Carmen Antohe

We survey the development of Clifford's geometric algebra and some of its engineering applications during the last 15 years. Several recently developed applications and their merits are discussed in some detail. We thus hope to clearly…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-05-27 Eckhard Hitzer , Tohru Nitta , Yasuaki Kuroe

It is shown that the geometry of quantum theory can be derived from geometrical structure that may be considered more fundamental. The basic elements of this reconstruction of quantum theory are the natural metric on the space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Marcel Reginatto

Many machine learning methods assume that the training and test data follow the same distribution. However, in the real world, this assumption is very often violated. In particular, the phenomenon that the marginal distribution of the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Masanari Kimura , Hideitsu Hino

Information geometry is an important tool to study statistical models. There are some important examples in statistical models which are regarded as warped products. In this paper, we study information geometry of warped products. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Yasuaki Fujitani

We consider a system with a discrete configuration space. We show that the geometrical structures associated with such a system provide the tools necessary for a reconstruction of discrete quantum mechanics once dynamics is brought into the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Marcel Reginatto , Michael J. W. Hall

This article demonstrates how an understanding of the geometry of a family of cost functions can be used to develop efficient numerical algorithms for real-time optimisation. Crucially, it is not the geometry of the individual functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-11 Jonathan H. Manton

A generic method for combinatorial constructions of intrinsic geometrical spaces is presented. It is based on the well known inverse sequences of finite graphs that determine (in the limit) topological spaces. If a pattern of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Stanislaw Ambroszkiewicz

We develop a language for describing the relationship among observations, mathematical models, and the underlying principles from which they are derived. Using Information Geometry, we consider geometric properties of statistical models for…

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