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Various lower bounds are established for the entropy of sums, products and their combinations. First, we derive a prime-field analogue of a version of the entropy power inequality established by Tao over torsion-free groups. Next, we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Lampros Gavalakis , Marcel K. Goh , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

The Fisher-Rao geodesic distance on the statistical manifold consisting of zero-mean p-dimensional multivariate Gaussians appears without proof in several places (such as Steven Smith's "Covariance, Subspace, and Intrinsic Cramer-Rao…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Joseph Wells , Mary Cook , Karleigh Pine , Benjamin D. Robinson

We show that an information theoretic distance measured by the relative Fisher information between canonical equilibrium phase densities corresponding to forward and backward processes is intimately related to the gradient of the dissipated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-12 Takuya Yamano

We examine important properties of the difference between the variance and the quantum Fisher information over four, i.e., $(\Delta A)^2-F_{\rm Q}[\varrho,A]/4.$ We find that it is equal to a generalized variance defined in Petz [J. Phys. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Geza Toth

This paper introduces and studies a new uncertainty measure, the cumulative residual interval entropy (CRIE). Defined as the cumulative residual entropy of a doubly truncated (interval) continuous random variable, this measure has several…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Stathis Chadjiconstantinidis , Apostolos Bozikas

We extend the result of Ball and Nguyen on the jump of entropy under convolution for logconcave random vectors. We show that the result holds for any pair of vectors (not necessarily identically distributed) and that a similar inequality…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Pierre Bizeul

We give conditions for an O(1/n) rate of convergence of Fisher information and relative entropy in the Central Limit Theorem. We use the theory of projections in L2 spaces and Poincare inequalities, to provide a better understanding of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Oliver Johnson , Andrew Barron

A new sharp inequality featuring the differential R\'enyi entropy, the R\'enyi divergence and the R\'enyi cross-entropy of a pair of probability density functions is established. The equality is reached when one of the probability density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , David Puertas-Centeno

A simple multivariate version of Costa's entropy power inequality is proved. In particular, it is shown that if independent white Gaussian noise is added to an arbitrary multivariate signal, the entropy power of the resulting random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-30 M. Payaró , D. P. Palomar

We develop a general method to study the Fisher information distance in central limit theorem for nonlinear statistics. We first construct completely new representations for the score function. We then use these representations to derive…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Nguyen Tien Dung

In this paper, we first establish general bounds on the Fisher information distance to the class of normal distributions of Malliavin differentiable random variables. We then study the rate of Fisher information convergence in the central…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Nguyen Tien Dung , Nguyen Thu Hang

Recently, a Wasserstein analogue of the Cramer--Rao inequality has been developed using the Wasserstein information matrix (Otto metric). This inequality provides a lower bound on the Wasserstein variance of an estimator, which quantifies…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Hayato Nishimori , Takeru Matsuda

In this paper the author analyses the weighted Renyi entropy in order to derive several inequalities in weighted case. Furthermore, using the proposed notions $\alpha$-th generalized derivation and ($\alpha$; p)-th weighted Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-16 Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

In information theory, Fisher information and Shannon information (entropy) are respectively used to quantify the uncertainty associated with the distribution modeling and the uncertainty in specifying the outcome of given variables. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-27 Huangjie Zheng , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Jia Wang

The paper deals with conditional linear information inequalities valid for entropy functions induced by discrete random variables. Specifically, the so-called conditional Ingleton inequalities are in the center of interest: these are valid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Milan Studeny

We show that for log-concave real random variables with fixed variance the Shannon differential entropy is minimized for an exponential random variable. We apply this result to derive upper bounds on capacities of additive noise channels…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-19 James Melbourne , Piotr Nayar , Cyril Roberto

We prove stability estimates for the Shannon-Stam inequality (also known as the entropy-power inequality) for log-concave random vectors in terms of entropy and transportation distance. In particular, we give the first stability estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ronen Eldan , Dan Mikulincer

This paper provides a finite sample bound for the error term in the Edgeworth expansion for a sum of independent, potentially discrete, nonlattice random vectors, using a uniform-in-$P$ version of the weaker Cram\'{e}r condition in Angst…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Kyungchul Song

Given a set of measurements, observability characterizes the distinguishability of a system's initial state, whereas constructability focuses on the final state in a trajectory. In the presence of process and/or measurement noise, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Burak Boyacıoğlu , Floris van Breugel

Uncertainty relations are central to quantum physics. While they were originally formulated in terms of variances, they have later been successfully expressed with entropies following the advent of Shannon information theory. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Anaelle Hertz , Nicolas J. Cerf