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Data partitioning that maximizes/minimizes the Shannon entropy, or more generally the R\'enyi entropy is a crucial subroutine in data compression, columnar storage, and cardinality estimation algorithms. These partition algorithms can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Aryan Esmailpour , Sanjay Krishnan , Stavros Sintos

Oblique decision trees have attracted attention due to their potential for improved classification performance over traditional axis-aligned decision trees. However, methods that rely on exhaustive search to find oblique splits face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Andrew D. Laack

Decision trees and random forest remain highly competitive for classification on medium-sized, standard datasets due to their robustness, minimal preprocessing requirements, and interpretability. However, a single tree suffers from high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Cencheng Shen , Yuexiao Dong , Carey E. Priebe

A chain rule and a subadditivity for the entropy of type $\beta$, which is one of the nonadditive entropies, were derived by Z.Dar\'oczy. In this paper, we study the further relations among Tsallis type entropies which are typical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shigeru Furuichi

One of the most useful tools for distinguishing between chaotic and stochastic time series is the so-called complexity-entropy causality plane. This diagram involves two complexity measures: the Shannon entropy and the statistical…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-02-27 Max Jauregui , Luciano Zunino , Ervin K. Lenzi , Renio S. Mendes , Haroldo V. Ribeiro

Considering the difficulty of interpreting generative model output, there is significant current research focused on determining meaningful evaluation metrics. Several recent approaches utilize "precision" and "recall," borrowed from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Alexis Fox , Samarth Swarup , Abhijin Adiga

We revisit the cut-off prescriptions which are needed in order to specify completely the form of Tsallis' maximum entropy distributions. For values of the Tsallis entropic parameter $q>1$ we advance an alternative cut-off prescription and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Teweldeberhan , A. R. Plastino , H. G. Miller

Many methods have been experimented to study decoherence in nanostructures. Tsallis, Shannon and Gaussian entropy have been used to study decoherence separately; in this paper, we compared the results of the sus-mentioned entropies in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-28 M. Tiotsop , A. J. Fotue , H. B. Fotsin , L. C. Fai

Centrality metrics play a crucial role in network analysis, while the choice of specific measures significantly influences the accuracy of conclusions as each measure represents a unique concept of node importance. Among over 400 proposed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-06 Pavel Chebotarev , Dmitry Gubanov

We propose a simple generalization of standard and empirically successful decision tree learning algorithms such as ID3, C4.5, and CART. These algorithms, which have been central to machine learning for decades, are greedy in nature: they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Guy Blanc , Jane Lange , Chirag Pabbaraju , Colin Sullivan , Li-Yang Tan , Mo Tiwari

The microscopic foundation of the generalized equilibrium statistical mechanics based on the Tsallis entropy is given by using the Gibbs idea of statistical ensembles of the classical and quantum mechanics. The equilibrium distribution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Parvan

Gradient boosted decision trees are some of the most popular algorithms in applied machine learning. They are a flexible and powerful tool that can robustly fit to any tabular dataset in a scalable and computationally efficient way. One of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Daniel de Marchi , Matthew Welch , Michael Kosorok

A maximum entropy framework based on Tsallis entropy is proposed to depict long tail behavior of queue lengths in broadband networks. Queue length expression as measured in terms of number of packets involves Hurwitz-zeta function. When the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Karmeshu , Shachi Sharma

The minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion has been successfully used in fields such as parameter estimation, system identification and the supervised machine learning. There is in general no explicit expression for the optimal MEE estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Badong Chen , Guangmin Wang , Nanning Zheng , Jose C. Principe

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

We discuss the idea that the Tsallis-type (q-additive) entropic chain rule allows for a wider class of entropic functionals than previously thought. In particular, we point out that the ensuing entropy solutions (e.g., Tsallis entropy) can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Petr Jizba , Jan Korbel

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning improves large language model performance on complex tasks, but often produces excessively long and inefficient reasoning traces. Existing methods shorten CoTs using length penalties or global entropy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xuan Xiong , Huan Liu , Li Gu , Zhixiang Chi , Yue Qiu , Yuanhao Yu , Yang Wang

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental task often used to discover meaningful structures in data, such as phylogenetic trees, taxonomies of concepts, subtypes of cancer, and cascades of particle decays in particle physics. Typically…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Craig S. Greenberg , Sebastian Macaluso , Nicholas Monath , Ji-Ah Lee , Patrick Flaherty , Kyle Cranmer , Andrew McGregor , Andrew McCallum

In this paper entropy based methods are compared and used to measure structural diversity of an ensemble of 21 classifiers. This measure is mostly applied in ecology, whereby species counts are used as a measure of diversity. The measures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-10-21 L. Masisi , V. Nelwamondo , T. Marwala

This paper introduces the centroid decision forest (CDF), a novel ensemble learning framework that redefines the splitting strategy and tree building in the ordinary decision trees for high-dimensional classification. The splitting approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-09 Amjad Ali , Saeed Aldahmani , Hailiang Du , Zardad Khan
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