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Non-parametric imaging and data analysis in astrophysics and cosmology can be addressed by information field theory (IFT), a means of Bayesian, data based inference on spatially distributed signal fields. IFT is a statistical field theory,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Torsten Enßlin

We develop information field theory (IFT) as a means of Bayesian inference on spatially distributed signals, the information fields. A didactical approach is attempted. Starting from general considerations on the nature of measurements,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Torsten A. Ensslin , Mona Frommert , Francisco S. Kitaura

Information field theory (IFT), the information theory for fields, is a mathematical framework for signal reconstruction and non-parametric inverse problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) aim at generating…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-08 Torsten Enßlin

Information field theory (IFT) is the application of probabilistic reasoning to fields. Physical fields are mathematical functions over continuous spaces that exhibit certain properties of regularity, such as limited variance and finite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Torsten Enßlin

A physical field has an infinite number of degrees of freedom since it has a field value at each location of a continuous space. Therefore, it is impossible to know a field from finite measurements alone and prior information on the field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Torsten A. Enßlin

Reconstructing the electric field from the measured voltages in an antenna, unfolding the antenna response, comes with several problems. Due to the noisiness of the signal it is often necessary to disregard part of the bandwidth of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-10-15 Simon Strähnz , Tim Huege , Philipp Frank , Torsten Enßlin

Data-driven approaches coupled with physical knowledge are powerful techniques to model systems. The goal of such models is to efficiently solve for the underlying field by combining measurements with known physical laws. As many systems…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-25 Alex Alberts , Ilias Bilionis

We introduce NIFTY, "Numerical Information Field Theory", a software package for the development of Bayesian signal inference algorithms that operate independently from any underlying spatial grid and its resolution. A large number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Marco Selig

Information field theory (IFT) is an emerging technique for posing infinite-dimensional inverse problems using the mathematics found in quantum field theory. Under IFT, the field inference task is formulated in a Bayesian setting where the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Alex Alberts , Ilias Bilionis

Bayesian imaging inverse problems in astrophysics and cosmology remain challenging, particularly in low-data regimes, due to complex forward operators and the frequent lack of well-motivated priors for non-Gaussian signals. In this paper,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sébastien Pierre , Erwan Allys , Pablo Richard , Roman Soletskyi , Alexandros Tsouros

Knowledge on evolving physical fields is of paramount importance in science, technology, and economics. Dynamical field inference (DFI) addresses the problem of reconstructing a stochastically driven, dynamically evolving field from finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Margret Westerkamp , Igor Ovchinnikov , Philipp Frank , Torsten Enßlin

In the analysis of real-world data, extracting meaningful features from signals is a crucial task. This is particularly challenging when signals contain non-stationary frequency components. The Iterative Filtering (IF) method has proven to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Giuseppe Scarlato , Antonio Cicone , Marco Donatelli

Non-linear and non-Gaussian signal inference problems are difficult to tackle. Renormalization techniques permit us to construct good estimators for the posterior signal mean within information field theory (IFT), but the approximations and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Torsten A. Ensslin , Cornelius Weig

Spatial regression of random fields based on potentially biased sensing information is proposed in this paper. One major concern in such applications is that since it is not known a-priori what the accuracy of the collected data from each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-04 Qikun Xiang , Ido Nevat , Gareth W. Peters

Data from radio interferometers provide a substantial challenge for statisticians. It is incomplete, noise-dominated and originates from a non-trivial measurement process. The signal is not only corrupted by imperfect measurement devices…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Philipp Arras , Jakob Knollmüller , Henrik Junklewitz , Torsten A. Enßlin

The analysis of the time-frequency content of a signal is a classical problem in signal processing, with a broad number of applications in real life. Many different approaches have been developed over the decades, which provide alternative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Antonio Cicone , Wing Suet Li , Haomin Zhou

Bayesian statistical inference is a powerful tool for model-data comparisons and extractions of physical parameters that are often unknown functions of system variables. Existing Bayesian analyses often rely on explicit parametrizations of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-09 Man Xie , Weiyao Ke , Hanzhong Zhang , Xin-Nian Wang

The graph Fourier transform (GFT) is a fundamental tool in graph signal processing and has recently been extended to the graph fractional Fourier transform (GFRFT). Existing sampling methods in the GFRFT domain are primarily designed to…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Yu Zhang , Jia-Yin Peng , Bing-Zhao Li

Real life signals are in general non--stationary and non--linear. The development of methods able to extract their hidden features in a fast and reliable way is of high importance in many research fields. In this work we tackle the problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-26 Antonio Cicone , Haomin Zhou

The long-tailed distribution is a common phenomenon in the real world. Extracted large scale image datasets inevitably demonstrate the long-tailed property and models trained with imbalanced data can obtain high performance for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Konstantinos Panagiotis Alexandridis , Shan Luo , Anh Nguyen , Jiankang Deng , Stefanos Zafeiriou
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