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We generalize the quantum Arimoto-Blahut algorithm by Ramakrishnan et al. (IEEE Trans. IT, 67, 946 (2021)) to a function defined over a set of density matrices with linear constraints so that our algorithm can be applied to optimizations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi , Geng Liu

In this paper, we investigate the convergence speed of the Arimoto-Blahut algorithm. For many channel matrices the convergence is exponential, but for some channel matrices it is slower than exponential. By analyzing the Taylor expansion of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Kenji Nakagawa , Yoshinori Takei , Shin-ichiro Hara , Kohei Watabe

This study presents alternating optimization (AO) algorithms for computing $\alpha$-mutual information ($\alpha$-MI) and $\alpha$-capacity based on variational characterizations of $\alpha$-MI using a reverse channel. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Akira Kamatsuka , Koki Kazama , Takahiro Yoshida

We consider Legendre-Bregman projections defined on the Hermitian matrix space and design iterative optimization algorithms based on them. A general duality theorem is established for Bregman divergences on Hermitian matrices, and it plays…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-29 Zhengfeng Ji

We extend the Blahut-Arimoto algorithm for maximizing Massey's directed information. The algorithm can be used for estimating the capacity of channels with delayed feedback, where the feedback is a deterministic function of the output. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-30 Iddo Naiss , Haim Permuter

Optimization in large language models (LLMs) unfolds over high-dimensional parameter spaces with non-Euclidean structure. Information geometry frames this landscape using the Fisher information metric, enabling more principled learning via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Riccardo Di Sipio

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

Recent research has demonstrated significant achievable performance gains by exploiting circularity/non-circularity or propeness/improperness of complex-valued signals. In this paper, we investigate the influence of these properties on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Georg Tauboeck

Tensor-based discrete density estimation requires flexible modeling and proper divergence criteria to enable effective learning; however, traditional approaches using $\alpha$-divergence face analytical challenges due to the $\alpha$-power…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-26 Kazu Ghalamkari , Jesper Løve Hinrich , Morten Mørup

The Blahut-Arimoto algorithm is a well-known method to compute classical channel capacities and rate-distortion functions. Recent works have extended this algorithm to compute various quantum analogs of these quantities. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Kerry He , James Saunderson , Hamza Fawzi

Although spatial information of images usually enhance the robustness of the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm, it greatly increases the computational costs for image segmentation. To achieve a sound trade-off between the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Cong Wang , Witold Pedrycz , ZhiWu Li , MengChu Zhou

This paper recalls the proximal point method. We study two iterative algorithms: the Blahut-Arimoto algorithm for computing the capacity of arbitrary discrete memoryless channels, as an example of an iterative algorithm working with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Ziad Naja , Florence Alberge , P. Duhamel

Recently, a method called the Mutual Information Neural Estimator (MINE) that uses neural networks has been proposed to estimate mutual information and more generally the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between two distributions. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Kartik Ahuja

We propose a novel iterative algorithm for solving a large sparse linear system. The method is based on the EM algorithm. If the system has a unique solution, the algorithm guarantees convergence with a geometric rate. Otherwise,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-03 Minwoo Chae , Stephen G. Walker

Accelerated algorithms for maximum likelihood image reconstruction are essential for emerging applications such as 3D tomography, dynamic tomographic imaging, and other high dimensional inverse problems. In this paper, we introduce and…

Computation · Statistics 2012-01-31 Stéphane Chrétien , Alfred O. Hero

A key element of any machine learning algorithm is the use of a function that measures the dis/similarity between data points. Given a task, such a function can be optimized with a metric learning algorithm. Although this research field has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-05 Léo Gautheron , Emilie Morvant , Amaury Habrard , Marc Sebban

We consider the problem of estimating an upper bound on the capacity of a memoryless channel with unknown channel law and continuous output alphabet. A novel data-driven algorithm is proposed that exploits the dual representation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Christian Häger , Erik Agrell

We discuss the recently proposed description of Kuramoto model in terms of hyperbolic space and relate it to the information geometry. In particular the dynamical equation in Kuramoto all-to-all model is identified with the gradient flow of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-03 Artem Alexandrov , Alexander Gorsky

Selecting an appropriate divergence measure is a critical aspect of machine learning, as it directly impacts model performance. Among the most widely used, we find the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, originally introduced in kinetic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Gennaro Auricchio , Giovanni Brigati , Paolo Giudici , Giuseppe Toscani

In information geometry, statistical models are considered as differentiable manifolds, where each probability distribution represents a unique point on the manifold. A Riemannian metric can be systematically obtained from a divergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Satyajit Dhadumia , M. Ashok Kumar