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The concept of distinguishability lies at the heart of quantum information theory. We introduce \textit{left-right relative entropy} as a quantitative measure of distinguishability within the space of boundary states in two-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Mostafa Ghasemi

In many problems in data mining and machine learning, data items that need to be clustered or classified are not points in a high-dimensional space, but are distributions (points on a high dimensional simplex). For distributions, natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sudipto Guha , Andrew McGregor , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

This paper focuses on $\alpha$-divergence minimisation methods for Variational Inference. More precisely, we are interested in algorithms optimising the mixture weights of any given mixture model, without any information on the underlying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Kamélia Daudel , Randal Douc

The focal-loss has become a widely used alternative to cross-entropy in class-imbalanced classification problems, particularly in computer vision. Despite its empirical success, a systematic information-theoretic study of the focal-loss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jaimin Shah , Martina Cardone , Alex Dytso

We obtain formulas for Petz-R\'enyi and Umegaki relative entropy from the idea of distribution of a positive selfadjoint operator. Classical results on R\'enyi and Kullback-Leibler divergences are applied to obtain new results and new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 George Androulakis , Tiju Cherian John

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

We demonstrate that dual entropy expressions of the Tsallis type apply naturally to statistical-mechanical systems that experience an exceptional contraction of their configuration space. The entropic index $\alpha>1$ describes the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-30 G. Cigdem Yalcin , Carlos Velarde , Alberto Robledo

Tsallis relative operator entropy was defined as a parametric extension of relative operator entropy and the generalized Shannon inequalities were shown in the previous paper. After the review of some fundamental properties of Tsallis…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-10 Shigeru Furuichi , Kenjiro Yanagi , Ken Kuriyama

The relative entropy of two n-party quantum states is an important quantity exhibiting, for example, the extent to which the two states are different. The relative entropy of the states formed by reducing two n-party to a smaller number $m$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Ben Ibinson , Noah Linden , Andreas Winter

The effect of relative entropy asymmetry is analyzed in the context of empirical risk minimization (ERM) with relative entropy regularization (ERM-RER). Two regularizations are considered: $(a)$ the relative entropy of the measure to be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-01 Francisco Daunas , Iñaki Esnaola , Samir M. Perlaza , H. Vincent Poor

The maximum entropy principle is a powerful tool for solving underdetermined inverse problems. This paper considers the problem of discretizing a continuous distribution, which arises in various applied fields. We obtain the approximating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Ken'ichiro Tanaka , Alexis Akira Toda

The effect of the relative entropy asymmetry is analyzed in the empirical risk minimization with relative entropy regularization (ERM-RER) problem. A novel regularization is introduced, coined Type-II regularization, that allows for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Francisco Daunas , Iñaki Esnaola , Samir M. Perlaza , H. Vincent Poor

The relative entropy between quantum states quantifies their distinguishability. The estimation of certain relative entropies has been investigated in the literature, e.g., the von Neumann relative entropy and sandwiched R\'enyi relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jinge Bao , Minbo Gao , Qisheng Wang

We give the tight bounds of Tsallis relative operator entropy by using Hermite-Hadamard's inequality. Some reverse inequalities related to Young inequalities are also given. In addition, operator inequalities for normalized positive linear…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Hamid Reza Moradi , Shigeru Furuichi , Nicuşor Minculete

Consider a defined density on a set of very large dimension. It is quite difficult to find an estimate of this density from a data set. However, it is possible through a projection pursuit methodology to solve this problem. Touboul's…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-05-14 Jacques Touboul

The equilibrium distributions of probabilities providing maximality of Renyi and Tsallis entropies are rederived. New S-forms of them are found which are normalised with corresponding entropies in contrast to the usual Z-forms normalised…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Bashkirov

We revisit entropic formulations of the uncertainty principle for an arbitrary pair of positive operator-valued measures (POVM) $A$ and $B$, acting on finite dimensional Hilbert space. Salicr\'u generalized $(h,\phi)$-entropies, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Zozor , G. M. Bosyk , M. Portesi

The limits of scaled relative entropies between probability distributions associated with N-particle weakly interacting Markov processes are considered. The convergence of such scaled relative entropies is established in various settings.…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-02-16 Amarjit Budhiraja , Paul Dupuis , Markus Fischer , Kavita Ramanan

For linear inverse problems with Gaussian priors and Gaussian observation noise, the posterior is Gaussian, with mean and covariance determined by the conditioning formula. Using the Feldman-Hajek theorem, we analyse the prior-to-posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Giuseppe Carere , Han Cheng Lie

Minimum divergence problems under integral constraints appear throughout statistics and probability, including sequential inference, bandit theory, and distributionally robust optimization. In many such settings, dual representations are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shubhanshu Shekhar , Shubhada Agrawal