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To ensure stability of learning, state-of-the-art generalized policy iteration algorithms augment the policy improvement step with a trust region constraint bounding the information loss. The size of the trust region is commonly determined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Boris Belousov , Jan Peters

We develop and analyze $M$-estimation methods for divergence functionals and the likelihood ratios of two probability distributions. Our method is based on a non-asymptotic variational characterization of $f$-divergences, which allows the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-18 XuanLong Nguyen , Martin J. Wainwright , Michael I. Jordan

Consider a classical system, which is in the state described by probability distribution $p$ or $q$, and embed these classical informations into quantum system by a physical map $\Gamma$, $\rho=\Gamma(p)$ and $\sigma=\Gamma(q)$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Keiji Matsumoto

Many entanglement measures are first defined for pure states of a bipartite Hilbert space, and then extended to mixed states via the convex roof extension. In this article we alter the convex roof extension of an entanglement measure, to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-02 George Androulakis , Ryan McGaha

We give a new characterization of relative entropy, also known as the Kullback-Leibler divergence. We use a number of interesting categories related to probability theory. In particular, we consider a category FinStat where an object is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-22 John C. Baez , Tobias Fritz

This paper develops systematic approaches to obtain $f$-divergence inequalities, dealing with pairs of probability measures defined on arbitrary alphabets. Functional domination is one such approach, where special emphasis is placed on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Igal Sason , Sergio Verdú

We introduce a new quantum R\'enyi divergence $D^{\#}_{\alpha}$ for $\alpha \in (1,\infty)$ defined in terms of a convex optimization program. This divergence has several desirable computational and operational properties such as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Hamza Fawzi , Omar Fawzi

In this paper we deal with two quantum relative entropy preserver problems on the cones of positive (either positive definite or positive semidefinite) operators. The first one is related to a quantum R\'enyi relative entropy like quantity…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Marcell Gaál , Gergő Nagy

We consider a quantum quasi-relative entropy $S_f^K$ for an operator $K$ and an operator convex function $f$. We show how to obtain the error bounds for the monotonicity and joint convexity inequalities from the recent results for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Anna Vershynina

Distance measures between quantum states like the trace distance and the fidelity can naturally be defined by optimizing a classical distance measure over all measurement statistics that can be obtained from the respective quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Mario Berta , Omar Fawzi , Marco Tomamichel

This work explores connections between the quantum relative entropy of two faithful states $\rho,\sigma$ (i.e. full-rank density matrices) and the Kullback-Leibler divergences of classical measures $\mu,\nu$. Here, $\mu$ and $\nu$ are…

In this article, we prove that the quantum $f$-divergence between two normal states on a semifinite von~Neumann algebra is equal to the classical $f$-divergence between two corresponding classical states, which are called Nussbaum-Szko{\l}a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Theodoros Anastasiadis , George Androulakis

Information divergences allow one to assess how close two distributions are from each other. Among the large panel of available measures, a special attention has been paid to convex $\varphi$-divergences, such as Kullback-Leibler,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Mireille El Gheche , Giovanni Chierchia , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Finite-sum optimization has wide applications in machine learning, covering important problems such as support vector machines, regression, etc. In this paper, we initiate the study of solving finite-sum optimization problems by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 Yexin Zhang , Chenyi Zhang , Cong Fang , Liwei Wang , Tongyang Li

We introduce the non-commutative $f$-divergence functional $\Theta(\widetilde{A},\widetilde{B}):=\int_TB_t^{\frac{1}{2}}f\left(B_t^{-\frac{1}{2}} A_tB_t^{-\frac{1}{2}}\right)B_t^{\frac{1}{2}}d\mu(t)$ for an operator convex function $f$,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Mohammad Sal Moslehian , Mohsen Kian

What is the fastest possible "diffusion"? A trivial answer would be "a process that converts a Dirac delta-function into a uniform distribution infinitely fast". Below, we consider a more reasonable formulation: a process that maximizes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-10 Vasili Baranau

We show that any Petz $f$-divergence (where $f$ is operator convex) between quantum states admits a universal $\chi^2$-mixture representation: the distinguishability of $\rho$ from $\sigma$ is obtained as a positive superposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Domingos S. P. Salazar

We construct for a Schur concave function $f$ on the set of quantum states a tight upper bound on the difference $f(\rho)-f(\sigma)$ for a quantum state $\rho$ with finite $f(\rho)$ and any quantum state $\sigma$ $m$-partially majorized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 M. E. Shirokov

Entropic regularization provides a generalization of the original optimal transport problem. It introduces a penalty term defined by the Kullback-Leibler divergence, making the problem more tractable via the celebrated Sinkhorn algorithm.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dávid Terjék , Diego González-Sánchez

$f$-divergences, which quantify discrepancy between probability distributions, are ubiquitous in information theory, machine learning, and statistics. While there are numerous methods for estimating $f$-divergences from data, a limit…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Sreejith Sreekumar , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato