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Many of the classical and recent relations between information and estimation in the presence of Gaussian noise can be viewed as identities between expectations of random quantities. These include the I-MMSE relationship of Guo et al.; the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman

We introduce a novel Mutual Information (MI) estimator that fundamentally reframes the discriminative approach. Instead of training a classifier to discriminate between joint and marginal distributions, we learn a normalizing flow that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ivan Butakov , Alexander Semenenko , Valeriya Kirova , Alexey Frolov , Ivan Oseledets

We show that both the classical as well as the quantum definitions of the Fisher information faithfully identify resourceful quantum states in general quantum resource theories, in the sense that they can always distinguish between states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Kok Chuan Tan , Varun Narasimhachar , Bartosz Regula

The formalism of quantum estimation theory with a specific focus on classical data postprocessing is applied to a two-level system driven by an external gyrating magnetic field. We employed both Bayesian and frequentist approaches to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Chun Kit Dennis Law , József Zsolt Bernád

A class of Fourier based statistics for irregular spaced spatial data is introduced, examples include, the Whittle likelihood, a parametric estimator of the covariance function based on the $L_{2}$-contrast function and a simple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Suhasini Subba Rao

This work focuses on the characterization of the central tendency of a sample of compositional data. It provides new results about theoretical properties of means and covariance functions for compositional data, with an axiomatic…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-24 Denis Allard , Thierry Marchant

Most existing methods for testing equality of means of functional data from multiple populations rely on assumptions of equal covariance and/or Gaussianity. In this work we provide a new testing method based on a statistic that is…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-30 Chuang Xu , Andrew T. A. Wood , Yanrong Yang

Recent advancements have revealed new links between information geometry and classical stochastic thermodynamics, particularly through the Fisher information (FI) with respect to time. Recognizing the non-uniqueness of the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Laetitia P. Bettmann , John Goold

In quantum resource theory (QRT), asymmetry recognized as a valid resource for the advantage of various quantum information processing. In this paper, we establish the resource theory of asymmetry using quantum Fisher information (QFI). By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 R. Muthuganesan , V. K. Chandrasekar

This paper mainly contributes to a classification of statistical Einstein manifolds, namely statistical manifolds at the same time are Einstein manifolds. A statistical manifold is a Riemannian manifold, each of whose points is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Linyu Peng , Zhenning Zhang

In this contribution, quantum Fisher information is utilized to estimate the parameters of a central qubit interacting with a single-spin qubit. The effect of the longitudinal, transverse and the rotating strengths of the magnetic field on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 N. Metwally

The Harmonic Mean between the number of papers and the citation number per paper is proposed as a simple single-value index to quantify an individual's research output. Two simple comparisons with the Hirsch h-index are performed.

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Massimo Germano

Quantifying the influence of infinitesimal changes in training data on model performance is crucial for understanding and improving machine learning models. In this work, we reformulate this problem as a weighted empirical risk minimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Omri Lev , Ashia C. Wilson

In this paper, it is shown that the rank function of a matroid can be represented by a "mutual information function" if and only if the matroid is binary. The mutual information function considered is the one measuring the amount of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Emmanuel Abbe

A statistic on a statistical model is sufficient if it has no information loss, namely, the Fisher metric of the induced model coincides with that of the original model due to Kullback and Ay-Jost-L\^e-Schwachh\"ofer. We introduce a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Kaori Yamaguchi , Hiraku Nozawa

Here we examine some connections between the notions of generalized arithmetic means, geodesics, Lagrange-Hamilton dynamics and Bregman divergences. In a previous paper we developed a predictive interpretation of generalized arithmetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-31 Henryk Gzyl

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is a key quantity in statistics as it is required for example for evaluating asymptotic precisions of parameter estimates, for computing test statistics or asymptotic distributions in statistical testing,…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-07 Maud Delattre , Estelle Kuhn

In this paper, we review Fisher information matrices properties in weighted version and discuss inequalities/bounds on it by using reduced weight functions. In particular, an extended form of the Fisher information inequality previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Mark Kelbert , Yuri Suhov , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

We study the statistical geometry of random chords on n-dimensional spheres by deriving explicit analytical expressions for the chord length distribution and its associated structural properties. A critical threshold emerges at dimension…

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