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We prove the correspondence between the information geometry of a signal filter and a K\"ahler manifold. The information geometry of a minimum-phase linear system with a finite complex cepstrum norm is a K\"ahler manifold. The square of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-26 Jaehyung Choi , Andrew P. Mullhaupt

In this paper we introduce a projection method for the space of probability distributions based on the differential geometric approach to statistics. This method is based on a direct L2 metric as opposed to the usual Hellinger distance and…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-06 Damiano Brigo

We consider the filtering and smoothing problems for an infinite-dimensional diffusion process X, observed through a finite-dimensional representation at discrete points in time. At the heart of our proposed methodology lies the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Thorben Pieper-Sethmacher , Daniele Avitabile , Frank van der Meulen

Using the square-root map p-->\sqrt{p} a probability density function p can be represented as a point of the unit sphere S in the Hilbert space of square-integrable functions. If the density function depends smoothly on a set of parameters,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-31 Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook

Imaging systems are represented as linear operators, and their singular value spectra describe the structure recoverable at the operator level. Building on an operator-based information-theoretic framework, this paper introduces a minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Charles Wood

In the paper, effective filtering for a type of slow-fast data assimilation systems in Hilbert spaces is considered. Firstly, the system is reduced to a system on a random invariant manifold. Secondly, nonlinear filtering of the origin…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Huijie Qiao

Information geometry provides a geometric approach to families of statistical models. The key geometric structures are the Fisher quadratic form and the Amari-Chentsov tensor. In statistics, the notion of sufficient statistic expresses the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Nihat Ay , Jürgen Jost , Hông Vân Lê , Lorenz Schwachhöfer

The aim of this paper is to provide a variational interpretation of the nonlinear filter in continuous time. A time-stepping procedure is introduced, consisting of successive minimization problems in the space of probability densities. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Richard S. Laugesen , Prashant G. Mehta , Sean P. Meyn , Maxim Raginsky

The Geometrically Intrinsic Nonlinear Recursive Filter, or GI Filter, is designed to estimate an arbitrary continuous-time Markov diffusion process X subject to nonlinear discrete-time observations. The GI Filter is fundamentally different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. W. R. Darling

In this study, we model the dark matter and baryon matter distribution in the Cosmic Web by means of highly nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger type and reaction diffusion wave mechanical descriptions. The construction of these wave mechanical models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-25 Esra Russell , Oktay K. Pashaev

Information geometry provides a tool to systematically investigate parameter sensitivity of the state of a system. If a physical system is described by a linear combination of eigenstates of a complex (that is, non-Hermitian) Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Dorje C. Brody , Eva-Maria Graefe

In this paper we will develop linear and nonlinear filtering methods for a large class of nonlinear wave equations that arise in applications such as quantum dynamics and laser generation and propagation in a unified framework. We consider…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Sivaguru S. Sritharan , Saba Mudaliar

A new Riemannian geometry for the Compound Gaussian distribution is proposed. In particular, the Fisher information metric is obtained, along with corresponding geodesics and distance function. This new geometry is applied on a change…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-21 Florent Bouchard , Ammar Mian , Jialun Zhou , Salem Said , Guillaume Ginolhac , Yannick Berthoumieu

In problems of parameter estimation from sensor data, the Fisher Information provides a measure of the performance of the sensor; effectively, in an infinitesimal sense, how much information about the parameters can be obtained from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Simon Williams , Arthur George Suvorov , Wang Zeng Fu , Bill Moran

It is well known that the Fisher information induces a Riemannian geometry on parametric families of probability density functions. Following recent work, we consider the nonparametric generalization of the Fisher geometry. The resulting…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-16 Andrew Holbrook , Shiwei Lan , Jeffrey Streets , Babak Shahbaba

We introduce Statistical Flow Matching (SFM), a novel and mathematically rigorous flow-matching framework on the manifold of parameterized probability measures inspired by the results from information geometry. We demonstrate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chaoran Cheng , Jiahan Li , Jian Peng , Ge Liu

In the following article we consider the numerical approximation of the non-linear filter in continuous-time, where the observations and signal follow diffusion processes. Given access to high-frequency, but discrete-time observations, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Ajay Jasra , Fangyuan Yu , Jeremy Heng

The relevance of the concept of Fisher information is increasing in both statistical physics and quantum computing. From a statistical mechanical standpoint, the application of Fisher information in the kinetic theory of gases is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

An information-geometric approach to sensor management is introduced that is based on following geodesic curves in a manifold of possible sensor configurations. This perspective arises by observing that, given a parameter estimation problem…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-15 Bill Moran , Stephen D. Howard , Douglas Cochran

The Fisher-Rao metric from Information Geometry is related to phase transition phenomena in classical statistical mechanics. Several studies propose to extend the use of Information Geometry to study more general phase transitions in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Omri Har Shemesh , Rick Quax , Alfons G. Hoekstra , Peter M. A. Sloot