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Skewed distributions are fundamental in modelling asymmetric data on the d-dimensional torus. In this context, asymmetry is introduced through the sine-skewing mechanism, which is the only skewing mechanism that has been proposed on the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Emily Schutte , Sophia Loizidou , Vincent Laheurte

In this paper, we will review the co-adjoint orbit formulation of finite dimensional quantum mechanics, and in this framework, we will interpret the notion of quantum Fisher information index (and metric). Following previous work of part of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Ivan Contreras , Elisa Ercolessi , Michele Schiavina

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is a foundational concept in statistical signal processing. The FIM depends on the probability distribution, assumed to belong to a smooth parametric family. Traditional approaches to estimating the FIM…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-22 Visar Berisha , Alfred O. Hero

We investigate the construction of exponential families from statistical manifolds, a central problem in information geometry. We prove that every compact statistical manifold admits a singular foliation whose leaves are Hessian manifolds.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Emmanuel Gnandi

Data sets of multivariate normal distributions abound in many scientific areas like diffusion tensor imaging, structure tensor computer vision, radar signal processing, machine learning, just to name a few. In order to process those normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Frank Nielsen

The problem how to approximately determine the absolute value of the Fisher information measure for a general parametric probabilistic system is considered. Having available the first and second moment of the system output in a parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Manuel Stein , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

In this paper, we investigate Hessian curvature hypersurfaces with prescribed Gauss images. Given geodesically strictly convex bounded domains $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $\tilde{\Omega}$ in the unit hemisphere, we prove that there is a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Huang Rongli , Qu Changzheng , Wang Zhizhang , Wo Weifeng

We prove an analogue of the Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence for compact, oriented, taut Riemannian foliated manifolds with transverse Hermitian structure. In particular, our Hitchin-Kobayashi theorem holds on any compact Sasakian manifold.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-30 David Baraglia , Pedram Hekmati

This paper gives an overview about particular quasi-entropies, generalized quantum covariances, quantum Fisher informations, skew-informations and their relations. The point is the dependence on operator monotone functions. It is proven…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-19 Denes Petz , V. E. Sandor Szabo

Data which lie in the space $\mathcal{P}_{m\,}$, of $m \times m$ symmetric positive definite matrices, (sometimes called tensor data), play a fundamental role in applications including medical imaging, computer vision, and radar signal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-12-09 Salem Said , Lionel Bombrun , Yannick Berthoumieu , Jonathan Manton

The Shahshahani geometry of evolutionary game theory is realized as the information geometry of the simplex, deriving from the Fisher information metric of the manifold of categorical probability distributions. Some essential concepts in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Marc Harper

A Riemannian metric is termed a Hessian metric if in some coordinate system it can be locally represented as the Hessian quadratic form of some locally defined smooth potential function. Under very mild extra technical conditions, we first…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Hanwen Liu

It is studied a 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold equipped with a tensor structure of type (1,1), whose third power is the identity. This structure has a circulant matrix with respect to some basis, i.e. the structure is circulant. On such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Iva Dokuzova

The Slepian-Bangs formula provides a very convenient way to compute the Fisher information matrix (FIM) for Gaussian distributed data. The aim of this letter is to extend it to a larger family of distributions, namely elliptically contoured…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-06-16 Olivier Besson , Yuri I. Abramovich

The space of all probability measures having positive density function on a connected compact smooth manifold $M$, denoted by $\mathcal{P}(M)$, carries the Fisher information metric $G$. We define the geometric mean of probability measures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-19 Mitsuhiro Itoh , Hiroyasu Satoh

This short note reviews so-called Natural Gradient Descent (NGD) for multivariate Gaussians. The Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) is derived for several different parameterizations of Gaussians. Careful attention is paid to the symmetric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-20 Timothy D. Barfoot

We investigate the geometrical structure of probabilistic generative dimensionality reduction models using the tools of Riemannian geometry. We explicitly define a distribution over the natural metric given by the models. We provide the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-01 Alessandra Tosi , Søren Hauberg , Alfredo Vellido , Neil D. Lawrence

The Fisher information of the classical orthogonal polynomials with respect to a parameter is introduced, its interest justified and its explicit expression for the Jacobi, Laguerre, Gegenbauer and Grosjean polynomials found.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. S. Dehesa , B. Olmos , R. J. Yanez

We define the information threshold as the point of maximum curvature in the prior vs. posterior Bayesian curve, both of which are described as a function of the true positive and negative rates of the classification system in question. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-07 Jacques Balayla

A foliation is said to admit a foliated contact structure if there is a codimension 1 distribution in the tangent space of the foliation such that the restriction to any leaf is contact. We prove a version of the Weinstein conjecture in the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Álvaro del Pino , Francisco Presas