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Chentsov studied Riemannian metrics on the set of probability measures from the point of view of decision theory. He proved that up to a constant factor the Fisher information is the only metric which is monotone under stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Petz , Cs. Sudar

Fine-tuning and naturalness, the sensitivity of low-energy observables to small changes in the fundamental parameters of a theory, are cornerstones of physics beyond the Standard Model. We propose a new measure of fine-tuning based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 James Halverson , Thomas R. Harvey , Michael Nee

The Fisher metric on a manifold of probability distributions is usually treated as a metric on the tangent bundle. In this paper, we focus on the metric on the cotangent bundle induced from the Fisher metric with calling it the Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hiroshi Nagaoka

Chentsov's theorem characterizes the Fisher information metric on statistical models as essentially the only Riemannian metric that is invariant under sufficient statistics. This implies that each statistical model is naturally equipped…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-23 James G. Dowty

In this paper I discuss the relation between the concept of the Fisher metric and the concept of differentiability of a family of probability measures. I compare the concepts of smooth statistical manifolds, differentiable families of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Hông Vân Lê

For a given metric $g_{\mu\nu}$, which is identified as Fisher information metric, we generate new constraints for the probability distributions for physical systems. We postulate the existence of intrinsic probability distributions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-25 Tzu-Chao Hung

We develop a family of infinite-dimensional Banach manifolds of measures on an abstract measurable space, employing charts that are "balanced" between the density and log-density functions. The manifolds, $(\tilde{M}_{\lambda},\lambda\in…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-10 Nigel J. Newton

A deep neural network is a hierarchical nonlinear model transforming input signals to output signals. Its input-output relation is considered to be stochastic, being described for a given input by a parameterized conditional probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Shun-ichi Amari , Ryo Karakida , Masafumi Oizumi

This paper focuses on a stochastic formulation of Bayesian attitude estimation on the special orthogonal group. In particular, an exponential probability density model for random matrices, referred to as the matrix Fisher distribution is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Taeyoung Lee

The quantum Fisher information is a Riemannian metric, defined on the state space of a quantum system, which is symmetric and decreasing under stochastic mappings. Contrary to the classical case such a metric is not unique. We complete the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Hansen

The Fisher's information metric is introduced in order to find the real meaning of the probability distribution in classical and quantum systems described by Riemaniann non-degenerated superspaces. In particular, the physical r\^{o}le…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-04 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo , Victor I. Afonso

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

Consider a probability measure supported by a regular geodesic ball in a manifold. For any p larger than or equal to 1 we define a stochastic algorithm which converges almost surely to the p-mean of the measure. Assuming furthermore that…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Marc Arnaudon , Clément Dombry , Anthony Phan , Le Yang

We show how Fisher's information already known particular character as the fundamental information geometric object which plays the role of a metric tensor for a statistical differential manifold, can be derived in a relatively easy manner…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Masi

This paper mainly contributes to a classification of statistical Einstein manifolds, namely statistical manifolds at the same time are Einstein manifolds. A statistical manifold is a Riemannian manifold, each of whose points is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Linyu Peng , Zhenning Zhang

We introduce a concept of distance for a space-time where the notion of point is replaced by the notion of physical states e.g. probability distributions. We apply ideas of information theory and compute the Fisher information matrix on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacques Calmet , Xavier Calmet

We consider natural and general exponential families $(Q_m)_{m\in M}$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ parametrized by the means. We study the submodels $(Q_{\theta m_1+(1-\theta)m_2})_{\theta\in[0,1]}$ parametrized by a segment in the means domain,…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Piotr Graczyk , Salha Mamane

Classical Fisher-information asymptotics describe the covariance of regular efficient estimators through the local quadratic approximation of the log-likelihood, and thus capture first-order geometry only. In curved models, including…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Malik Amir , Sourangshu Ghosh

In this paper, a new three-parameter lifetime distribution is introduced and many of its standard properties are discussed. These include shape of the probability density function, hazard rate function and its shape, quantile function,…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-08-21 Min Wang

Choosing the Fisher information as the metric tensor for a Riemannian manifold provides a powerful yet fundamental way to understand statistical distribution families. Distances along this manifold become a compelling measure of statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Brodie A. J. Lawson , Kevin Burrage , Kerrie Mengersen , Rodrigo Weber dos Santos
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