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Simple inequalities are established for some integrals involving the modified Bessel functions of the first and second kind. In most cases these inequalities are tight in certain limits. As a consequence, we deduce a tight double…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-04-23 Robert E. Gaunt

Data consisting of a graph with a function mapping into $\mathbb{R}^d$ arise in many data applications, encompassing structures such as Reeb graphs, geometric graphs, and knot embeddings. As such, the ability to compare and cluster such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Erin W. Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Bei Wang

We derive two concentration inequalities for linear functions of log-concave distributions: an enhanced version of the classical Brascamp--Lieb concentration inequality, and an inequality quantifying log-concavity of marginals in a manner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Alexander Magazinov , Ron Peled

We establish sharp exponential deviation estimates of the information content as well as a sharp bound on the varentropy for the class of convex measures on Euclidean spaces. This generalizes a similar development for log-concave measures…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Matthieu Fradelizi , Jiange Li , Mokshay Madiman

We provide optimal lower and upper bounds for the augmented Kullback-Leibler divergence in terms of the augmented total variation distance between two probability measures defined on two Euclidean spaces having different dimensions. We call…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Michele Caprio

Deep nonlinear models pose a challenge for fitting parameters due to lack of knowledge of the hidden layer and the potentially non-affine relation of the initial and observed layers. In the present work we investigate the use of information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jacob S. Hunter , Nathan O. Hodas

On the class of log-concave functions on $\R^n$, endowed with a suitable algebraic structure, we study the first variation of the total mass functional, which corresponds to the volume of convex bodies when restricted to the subclass of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2011-12-22 Andrea Colesanti , Ilaria Fragala'

In this paper, our aim is to show some mean value inequalities for the Fox-Wright functions, such as Tur\'an--type inequalities, Lazarevi\'c and Wilker--type inequalities. As applications we derive some new type inequalities for…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Khaled Mehrez , Sergei M. Sitnik

In this paper we prove different functional inequalities extending the classical Rogers-Shephard inequalities for convex bodies. The original inequalities provide an optimal relation between the volume of a convex body and the volume of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-14 David Alonso-Gutiérrez , Bernardo González Merino , C. Hugo Jiménez , Rafael Villa

Variational inequalities play a key role in machine learning research, such as generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, adversarial training, and generative models. This paper is devoted to the constrained variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mohammad S. Alkousa , Fedor S. Stonyakin , Belal A. Alashqar , Seydamet S. Ablaev

The problem of f-divergence estimation is important in the fields of machine learning, information theory, and statistics. While several nonparametric divergence estimators exist, relatively few have known convergence properties. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Kevin R. Moon , Alfred O. Hero

A version of the Hodge-Riemann relations for valuations was recently conjectured and proved in several special cases by the first-named author. The Lefschetz operator considered there arises as either the product or the convolution with the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Jan Kotrbatý , Thomas Wannerer

Recent success in contrastive learning has sparked growing interest in more effectively leveraging multiple augmented views of data. While prior methods incorporate multiple views at the loss or feature level, they primarily capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jae Hyoung Jeon , Cheolsu Lim , Myungjoo Kang

Wide conditions are provided to guarantee asymptotic unbiasedness and L^2-consistency of the introduced estimates of the Kullback-Leibler divergence for probability measures in R^d having densities w.r.t. the Lebesgue measure. These…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Alexander Bulinski , Denis Dimitrov

The fractional Feynman-Kac equations describe the distribution of functionals of non-Brownian motion, or anomalous diffusion, including two types called the forward and backward fractional Feynman-Kac equations, where the fractional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Jiahui Hu , Jungang Wang , Zhanbin Yuan , Zongze Yang , Yufeng Nie

In this paper, we propose the Fourier Discrepancy Function, a new discrepancy to compare discrete probability measures. We show that this discrepancy takes into account the geometry of the underlying space. We prove that the Fourier…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-19 Auricchio Gennaro , Codegoni Andrea , Gualandi Stefano , Zambon Lorenzo

We introduce a notion of weak convergence in arbitrary metric spaces. Metric functionals are key in our analysis: weak convergence of sequences in a given metric space is tested against all the metric functionals defined on said space. When…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Armando W. Gutiérrez , Olavi Nevanlinna

In this paper, we first introduce and define several new information divergences in the space of transition matrices of finite Markov chains which measure the discrepancy between two Markov chains. These divergences offer natural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Youjia Wang , Michael C. H. Choi

We find sufficient conditions for a probability measure $\mu$ to satisfy an inequality of the type $$ \int_{\R^d} f^2 F\Bigl(\frac{f^2}{\int_{\R^d} f^2 d \mu} \Bigr) d \mu \le C \int_{\R^d} f^2 c^{*}\Bigl(\frac{|\nabla f|}{|f|} \Bigr) d \mu…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander V. Kolesnikov

This paper is focused on $f$-divergences, consisting of three main contributions. The first one introduces integral representations of a general $f$-divergence by means of the relative information spectrum. The second part provides a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Igal Sason