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Preconditioning with the quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is a popular approach in quantum variational algorithms. Yet the QFIM is costly to obtain directly, usually requiring more state preparation than its classical counterpart:…

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Uncertainty estimation is a key factor that makes deep learning reliable in practical applications. Recently proposed evidential neural networks explicitly account for different uncertainties by treating the network's outputs as evidence to…

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Estimation of the Fisher Information Metric (FIM-estimation) is an important task that arises in unsupervised learning of phase transitions, a problem proposed by physicists. This work completes the definition of the task by defining…

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The Quantum Fisher Information matrix (QFIM) is a central metric in promising algorithms, such as Quantum Natural Gradient Descent and Variational Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution. Computing the full QFIM for a model with $d$ parameters,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Giuseppe Carleo , Stefan Woerner

The Fisher information matrix summarizes the amount of information in a set of data relative to the quantities of interest. There are many applications of the information matrix in statistical modeling, system identification and parameter…

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The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is fundamental to understanding the trainability of deep neural nets (DNN), since it describes the parameter space's local metric. We investigate the spectral distribution of the conditional FIM, which is…

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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…

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We study information matrices for statistical models by the $L^2$-Wasserstein metric. We call them Wasserstein information matrices (WIMs), which are analogs of classical Fisher information matrices. We introduce Wasserstein score functions…

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A common approach to analyzing categorical correlated time series data is to fit a generalized linear model (GLM) with past data as covariate inputs. There remain challenges to conducting inference for short time series length. By treating…

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We study a scenario where a group of agents, each with multiple heterogeneous sensors are collecting measurements of a vehicle and the measurements are transmitted over a communication channel to a centralized node for processing. The…

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The analysis of longitudinal, heterogeneous or unbalanced clustered data is of primary importance to a wide range of applications. The Linear Mixed Model (LMM) is a popular and flexible extension of the linear model specifically designed…

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The problem of determining the achievable sensitivity with digitization exhibiting minimal complexity is addressed. In this case, measurements are exclusively available in hard-limited form. Assessing the achievable sensitivity via the…

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As we enter the era of quantum technologies, quantum estimation theory provides an operationally motivating framework for determining high precision devices in modern technological applications. The aim of any estimation process is to…

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Current experimental design techniques for dynamical systems often only incorporate measurement noise, while dynamical systems also involve process noise. To construct experimental designs we need to quantify their information content. The…

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The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Fisher information matrix (FIM) can reveal the most and least sensitive directions of a system and it has wide application across science and engineering. We present a symplectic variant of the…

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