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The electronic local density of states of solids, if normalized correctly, represents the probability density that the electron at a specific position has a particular energy. Because this probability density can vary in space in disordered…

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Probabilistic graphical models allow us to encode a large probability distribution as a composition of smaller ones. It is oftentimes the case that we are interested in incorporating in the model the idea that some of these smaller…

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The concept of temperature is one of the key ideas in describing the thermodynamical properties of a physical system. In classical statistical mechanics of ideal gases, the notion of temperature can be described in two different ways, the…

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Motivated by the possible applications that a better understanding of consciousness might bring, we follow Tononi's idea and calculate analytically a complexity index for two systems of Ising spins with parallel update dynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-28 Otavio Citton , Nestor Caticha

We give an online algorithm that keeps a symmetric random walk inside a convex body by discarding some of its steps. The expected number of discarded steps is controlled by a Fisher-information-type quantity associated with the body. For…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Gleb Smirnov , Roman Vershynin

We employ optimal control theory to study the problem of estimating the probability density function from a data set originating from an unknown probability distribution. The original variational problem is reformulated as a multi-stage…

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The problem of evaluating the information associated with Fredholm integral equations of the first kind, when the integral operator is self-adjoint and compact, is considered here. The data function is assumed to be perturbed gently by an…

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We use a novel form of quantum conditional probability to define new measures of quantum information in a dynamical context. We explore relationships between our new quantities and standard measures of quantum information, such as von…

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Differentiable physics provides a new approach for modeling and understanding the physical systems by pairing the new technology of differentiable programming with classical numerical methods for physical simulation. We survey the rapidly…

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This paper focuses on estimating probability distributions over the set of 3D rotations ($SO(3)$) using deep neural networks. Learning to regress models to the set of rotations is inherently difficult due to differences in topology between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 D. Mohlin , G. Bianchi , J. Sullivan

Computer simulations of differential equations require a time discretization, which inhibits to identify the exact solution with certainty. Probabilistic simulations take this into account via uncertainty quantification. The construction of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-15 Philipp Frank , Torsten A. Enßlin

Physical systems behave according to their underlying dynamical equations which, in turn, can be identified from experimental data. Explaining data requires selecting mathematical models that best capture the data regularities. Identifying…

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We prove an extended convexity for quantum Fisher information of a mixed state with a given convex decomposition. This convexity introduces a bound which has two parts: i. classical part associated to the Fisher information of the…

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This paper discusses an approach for incorporating prior physical knowledge into the neural network to improve data efficiency and the generalization of predictive models. If the dynamics of a system approximately follows a given…

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Many statistical models require an estimation of unknown (co)-variance parameter(s) in a model. The estimation usually obtained by maximizing a log-likelihood which involves log determinant terms. In principle, one requires the…

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Estimations of physical parameters using data usually involve non-uniform experimental efficiencies. In this article, a method of maximum likelihood fit is introduced using the efficiency as a weight, while the probability distribution…

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In this paper, we present an analytical study of the relationship between the statistical distribution of a physical parameter and the uncertainties in the physical quantities used to determine it through indirect measurement. We…

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We analyze a specific role of probability density gradients in the theory of irreversible transport processes. The classic Fisher information and information entropy production concepts are found to be intrinsically entangled with the very…

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