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We construct optimal low-rank approximations for the Gaussian posterior distribution in linear Gaussian inverse problems with possibly infinite-dimensional separable Hilbert parameter spaces and finite-dimensional data spaces. We first…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Giuseppe Carere , Han Cheng Lie

An amended MaxEnt formulation for systems displaced from the conventional MaxEnt equilibrium is proposed. This formulation involves the minimization of the Kullback-Leibler divergence to a reference $Q$ (or maximization of Shannon…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jean-François Bercher

The weak law of large numbers implies that, under mild assumptions on the source, the Renyi entropy per produced symbol converges (in probability) towards the Shannon entropy rate. This paper quantifies the speed of this convergence for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Maciej Skorski

In this paper, we investigate the partition inequality, joint convexity, and Pinsker's inequality, for a divergence that generalizes the Tsallis Relative Entropy and Kullback-Leibler divergence. The generalized divergence is defined in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Rui F. Vigelis , Luiza H. F. de Andrade , Charles C. Cavalcante

The aim of this paper is to discuss new results concerning some kinds of parametric extended entropies and divergences. As a result of our studies for mathematical properties on entropy and divergence, we give new bounds for the Tsallis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Shigeru Furuichi , Nicuşor Minculete

We introduce hardness in relative entropy, a new notion of hardness for search problems which on the one hand is satisfied by all one-way functions and on the other hand implies both next-block pseudoentropy and inaccessible entropy, two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Rohit Agrawal , Yi-Hsiu Chen , Thibaut Horel , Salil Vadhan

In this note we give a characterization of a family of relative entropies on open domain depending on a real parameter $\alpha$ based on recursivity and symmetry. In the cases $\alpha=1$ and $\alpha=0$ we use additionally a weak regularity…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Eszter Gselmann , Gyula Maksa

Purely multiplicative comparisons of quantum relative entropy are desirable but challenging to prove. We show such comparisons for relative entropies between comparable densities, including the relative entropy of a density with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Nicholas LaRacuente

Predictive inference requires balancing statistical accuracy against informational complexity, yet the choice of complexity measure is usually imposed rather than derived. We treat econometric objects as predictive rules, mappings from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Nicholas G. Polson , Daniel Zantedeschi

Replacing positivity constraints by an entropy barrier is popular to approximate solutions of linear programs. In the special case of the optimal transport problem, this technique dates back to the early work of Schr\"odinger. This approach…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Gabriel Peyré , Bernhard Schmitzer

Convex optimization problems arise naturally in quantum information theory, often in terms of minimizing a convex function over a convex subset of the space of hermitian matrices. In most cases, finding exact solutions to these problems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Mark W. Girard , Gilad Gour , Shmuel Friedland

Traditional likelihood based methods for parameter estimation get highly affected when the given data is contaminated by outliers even in a small proportion. In this paper, we consider a robust parameter estimation method, namely the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Himanshi Singh , Abhik Ghosh , Nil Kamal Hazra

This work deals with the asymptotic distribution of both potentials and couplings of entropic regularized optimal transport for compactly supported probabilities in $\R^d$. We first provide the central limit theorem of the Sinkhorn…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Alberto Gonzalez-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Jonathan Niles-Weed

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability for quantum states, and plays a central role in quantum information theory. The family of Renyi entropies generalizes to Renyi relative entropies that include as special cases most entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-12 Nima Lashkari

Lower bounds for the R\'enyi entropies of sums of independent random variables taking values in cyclic groups of prime order under permutations are established. The main ingredients of our approach are extended rearrangement inequalities in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Mokshay Madiman , Liyao Wang , Jae Oh Woo

Generalized entropic projections and dominating points are solutions to convex minimization problems related to conditional laws of large numbers. They appear in many areas of applied mathematics such as statistical physics, information…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Christian Léonard

Backwards analysis, first popularized by Seidel, is often the simplest most elegant way of analyzing a randomized algorithm. It applies to incremental algorithms where elements are added incrementally, following some random permutation,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Mathias Bæk Tejs Knudsen , Mikkel Thorup

We develop a maximum relative entropy formalism to generate optimal approximations to probability distributions. The central results consist in (a) justifying the use of relative entropy as the uniquely natural criterion to select a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-17 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Ariel Caticha

In this paper, we develop the lower and upper bounds of worst-case distortion riskmetrics and weighted entropy for unimodal, and symmetric unimodal distributions when mean and variance information are available. We also consider the sharp…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-24 Baishuai Zuo , Chuancun Yin

We examine the minimization of information entropy for measures on the phase space of bounded domains, subject to constraints that are averages of grand canonical distributions. We describe the set of all such constraints and show that it…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Stamatis Dostoglou , Alexander Hughes , Jianfei Xue