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Characterizing the long term behavior of dynamical systems given limited measurements is a common challenge throughout the physical and biological sciences. This is a challenging task due to the sparsity and noise inherent to empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Roy Friedman , Noa Moriel , Matthew Ricci , Guy Pelc , Yair Weiss , Mor Nitzan

In orthogonal time-frequency space communications, the performances of existing on-grid and off-grid channel estimation (CE) schemes are determined by the delay-Doppler (DD) grid density. In practice, multiple real-life DD channel responses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Xiangjun Li , Pingzhi Fan , Qianli Wang , Zilong Liu

The configuration entropy (CE) provides a measure of the stability of physical systems that are spatially localized. An increase in the CE is associated with an increase in the instability of the system. In this work we apply a recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-08 Nelson R. F. Braga , Luiz F. Ferreira , Octavio C. Junqueira

Long-lived localized field configurations such as breathers, oscillons, or more complex objects naturally arise in the context of a wide range of nonlinear models in different numbers of spatial dimensions. We present a numerical method,…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcelo Gleiser , Andrew Sornborger

In principle, the probability of configurations, determined by the system's partition function or wave function, encapsulates essential information about phases and phase transitions. Despite the exponentially large configuration space, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-26 Wen-Yu Su , Yu-Jing Liu , Nvsen Ma , Chen Cheng

Entropy plays a key role in statistical physics of complex systems, which in general exhibit diverse aspects of emergence on different scales. However, it still remains not fully resolved how entropy varies with the coarse-graining level…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-07 Segun Goh , Jungzae Choi , MooYoung Choi , Byung-Gook Yoon

The evolution of the configuration entropy of the mass distribution in the Universe is known to be governed by the growth rate of density perturbations and the expansion rate of the Universe. We consider the $\Lambda$CDM model and a set of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Biswajit Das , Biswajit Pandey

Variable selection is an important problem in statistics and machine learning. Copula Entropy (CE) is a mathematical concept for measuring statistical independence and has been applied to variable selection recently. In this paper we…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-07 Jian Ma

The neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for developing accelerated surrogate models of complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). A popular approach for PDE…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-26 Ashish S. Nair , Shivam Barwey , Pinaki Pal , Jonathan F. MacArt , Troy Arcomano , Romit Maulik

Self-organization is the autonomous assembly of a network of interacting components into a stable, organized pattern. This article shows that the process of self-assembly can be encoded in terms of evolutionary entropy, a statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-29 Lloyd A. Demetrius

Electromagnetic transitions involving nucleons and their resonances are here presented in the fermionic sector of the AdS/QCD soft-wall model, using the differential configurational entropy (DCE) as a measure of information entropy. The DCE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-18 Roldao da Rocha

Most living systems rely on double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) to store their genetic information and perpetuate themselves. This biological information has been considered the main target of evolution. However, here we show that symmetries and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-01 Piero Fariselli , Cristian Taccioli , Luca Pagani , Amos Maritan

Loss functions play a crucial role in deep metric learning thus a variety of them have been proposed. Some supervise the learning process by pairwise or tripletwise similarity constraints while others take advantage of structured similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Xinshao Wang , Elyor Kodirov , Yang Hua , Neil Robertson

Cross-entropy method model predictive control (CEM--MPC) is a powerful gradient-free technique for nonlinear optimal control, but its performance is often limited by the reliance on random sampling. This conventional approach can lead to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Markus Walker , Daniel Frisch , Uwe D. Hanebeck

Ordinal Patterns are a time-series data analysis tool used as a preliminary step to construct the Permutation Entropy which itself allows the same characterization of dynamics as chaotic or regular as more theoretical constructs such as the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-24 I. Gunther , Arjendu K. Pattanayak , Andrés Aragoneses

Pomeron resonances in AdS/QCD are here studied using the configurational entropy (CE). The concept of CE Regge trajectories, associating the CE of the pomeron resonances with both their spin $J^{PC}$ and to their mass spectra, is used to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-08 D. Marinho Rodrigues , R. da Rocha

Configurational entropy is an important factor in the free energy change of many macromolecular recognition and binding processes, and has been intensively studied. Despite great progresses that have been made, the global sampling remains…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Wenzhao Li , Kai Wang , Suyan Tian , Pu Tian

Oscillons are localized field configurations oscillating in time with lifetimes orders of magnitude longer than their oscillation period. In this paper, we simulate non-travelling oscillons produced by deforming the breather solutions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 José T. Gálvez Ghersi , Jonathan Braden

Aging is a universal consequence of life, yet researchers have identified no universal theme. This manuscript considers aging from the perspective of entropy, wherein things fall apart. We first examine biological information change as a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-13 Stephan Baehr , Hans Baehr

In this paper we employ a configurational information measure, specifically the differential configurational complexity (DCC), to quantify the information content of lump-type solutions in various scalar field models, including two modified…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-01-10 Marcelo A. Feitosa , Wesley B. Cardoso , Dionisio Bazeia , Ardiley T. Avelar