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Information theory has been taken as a prospective tool for quantifying the complexity of complex networks. In this paper, we first study the information entropy or uncertainty of a path using the information theory. Then we apply the path…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-04 Zhongqi Xu , Cunlai Pu , Jian Yang

Maximum entropy estimation is of broad interest for inferring properties of systems across many different disciplines. In this work, we significantly extend a technique we previously introduced for estimating the maximum entropy of a set of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-01-05 Elliot A. Martin , Jaroslav Hlinka , Alexander Meinke , Filip Děchtěrenko , Jörn Davidsen

Data collection is a critical step in statistical inference and data science, and the goal of statistical experimental design (ED) is to find the data collection setup that can provide most information for the inference. In this work we…

Computation · Statistics 2020-07-01 Ziqiao Ao , Jinglai Li

We present an information-theoretic assessment of atomic and molecular densities in the ground state and under a range of physical scenarios--excitation, confinement, and ensemblization. Comparisons across densities obtained from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Abdulrahman Y. Zamani , Kevin Carter-Fenk

The traditional approach to the quantitative study of segregation is to employ indices that are selected by ``desirable properties''. Here, we detail how information theory underpins entropy-based indices and demonstrate how desirable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-15 Boris Barron , Yunus A. Kinkhabwala , Chriss Hess , Matthew Hall , Itai Cohen , Tomás A. Arias

The formalism of statistical mechanics can be generalized by starting from more general measures of information than the Shannon entropy and maximizing those subject to suitable constraints. We discuss some of the most important examples of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Christian Beck

We analyze dynamical properties of the Shannon information entropy of a continuous probability distribution, which is driven by a standard diffusion process. This entropy choice is confronted with another option, employing the conditional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Piotr Garbaczewski

The estimation of information measures of continuous distributions based on samples is a fundamental problem in statistics and machine learning. In this paper, we analyze estimates of differential entropy in $K$-dimensional Euclidean space,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida , Günther Koliander

The deepening penetration of renewable resources into power systems entails great difficulties that have not been surmounted satisfactorily. An issue that merits special attention is the short-term planning of power systems under net load…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Ogun Yurdakul , Fikret Sivrikaya , Sahin Albayrak

The integrated information theory is thought to be a key clue towards the theoretical understanding of consciousness. In this study, we propose a simple numerical model comprising a set of coupled double quantum dots, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Katsuaki Tanabe

We introduce the notion of relative volume entropy for two spacetimes with preferred compact spacelike foliations. This is accomplished by applying the notion of Kullback-Leibler divergence to the volume elements induced on spacelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 Nikolas Akerblom , Gunther Cornelissen

To improve our understanding of connected systems, different tools derived from statistics, signal processing, information theory and statistical physics have been developed in the last decade. Here, we will focus on the graph comparison…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-23 Johann H. Martínez , Mario Chavez

After reviewing unnormalized and normalized information distances based on incomputable notions of Kolmogorov complexity, we discuss how Kolmogorov complexity can be approximated by data compression algorithms. We argue that optimal…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alexei Kaltchenko

The matrix-based Renyi's \alpha-order entropy functional was recently introduced using the normalized eigenspectrum of a Hermitian matrix of the projected data in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). However, the current theory in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Shujian Yu , Luis Gonzalo Sanchez Giraldo , Robert Jenssen , Jose C. Principe

Estimating the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between random variables is a fundamental problem in statistical analysis. For continuous random variables, traditional information-theoretic estimators scale poorly with dimension and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mikil Foss , Andrew Lamperski

This work presents a novel framework for time series analysis using entropic measures based on the kernel density estimate (KDE) of the time series' Takens' embeddings. Using this framework we introduce two distinct analytical tools: (1) a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Audun Myers , Bill Kay , Iliana Alvarez , Michael Hughes , Cameron Mackenzie , Carlos Ortiz Marrero , Emily Ellwein , Erik Lentz

In this paper, we propose a new spectral-based approach to hypothesis testing for populations of networks. The primary goal is to develop a test to determine whether two given samples of networks come from the same random model or…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-26 Li Chen , Nathaniel Josephs , Lizhen Lin , Jie Zhou , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Statistical correlations that can be generated across the nodes in a quantum network depend crucially on its topology. However, this topological information might not be known a priori, or it may need to be verified. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Daniel T. Chen , Brian Doolittle , Jeffrey M. Larson , Zain H. Saleem , Eric Chitambar

The electronic density \rho(r) in atoms, molecules and solids is, in general, a distribution that can be observed experimentally, containing spatial information projected from the total wave function. These density distributions can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 J. P. Restrepo Cuartas

R\'esum\'e: Le principal objet de cette communication est de faire une r\'etro perspective succincte de l'utilisation de l'entropie et du principe du maximum d'entropie dans le domaine du traitement du signal. Apr\`es un bref rappel de…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Ali Mohammad-Djafari