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This paper investigates statistical inference for noisy matrix completion in a semi-supervised model when auxiliary covariates are available. The model consists of two parts. One part is a low-rank matrix induced by unobserved latent…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-27 Shujie Ma , Po-Yao Niu , Yichong Zhang , Yinchu Zhu

The planning and design of future experiments rely heavily on forecasting to assess the potential scientific value provided by a hypothetical set of measurements. The Fisher information matrix, due to its convenient properties and low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Joseph Ryan , Brandon Stevenson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Joel Meyers

The estimation of continuous parameters from measured data plays a central role in many fields of physics. A key tool in understanding and improving such estimation processes is the concept of Fisher information, which quantifies how…

We demonstrate that centered likelihood ratio estimators for the sensitivity indices of complex stochastic dynamics are highly efficient with low, constant in time variance and consequently they are suitable for sensitivity analysis in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Georgios Arampatzis , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet

We propose a general procedure for estimating the variance-covariance matrix of two-step estimates of structural parameters in latent variable models. The method is partially simulation-based, in that it includes drawing simulated values of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-23 Roberto Di Mari , Jouni Kuha

Spectroscopy detected in the time domain entails many techniques, such as FTIR, pump-probe, FT-Raman, and 2DES, and applications, such as molecule characterization, excited state dynamics studies, or spectra classifications. Surprisingly,…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-21 Luca Bolzonello , Niek F van Hulst , Andreas Jakobsson

Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA) is a widely used method for classification and dimensionality reduction. When the number of predictor variables greatly exceeds the number of observations, one of the alternatives for conventional FDA is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Agniva Chowdhury , Jiasen Yang , Petros Drineas

We study the problem of estimating a continuous ability parameter from sequential binary responses by actively asking questions with varying difficulties, a setting that arises naturally in adaptive testing and online preference learning.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-10 Sanghwa Kim , Dohyun Ahn , Seungki Min

We prove two lower bounds for the complexity of non-log-concave sampling within the framework of Balasubramanian et al. (2022), who introduced the use of Fisher information (FI) bounds as a notion of approximate first-order stationarity in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Sinho Chewi , Patrik Gerber , Holden Lee , Chen Lu

The minimum achievable statistical uncertainty in the estimation of physical parameters is determined by the quantum Fisher information. Its computation for noisy systems is still a challenging problem. Using a variational approach, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 B. M. Escher , L. Davidovich , N. Zagury , R. L. de Matos Filho

The detection of quantum and classical phase transitions in the absence of an order parameter is possible using the Fisher information metric (FIM), also known as fidelity susceptibility. Here, we propose and investigate an unsupervised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Victor Kasatkin , Evgeny Mozgunov , Nicholas Ezzell , Daniel Lidar

Influence functions provide a principled method to assess the contribution of individual training samples to a specific target. Yet, their high computational costs limit their applications on large-scale models and datasets. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xinyu Zhou , Simin Fan , Martin Jaggi

New inequalities are proved for the variance of the Pitman estimators (minimum variance equivariant estimators) of \theta constructed from samples of fixed size from populations F(x-\theta). The inequalities are closely related to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Abram M. Kagan , Tinghui Yu , Andrew Barron , Mokshay Madiman

The Quantum Fisher Information Matrix (QFIM) is a fundamental quantity in various subfields of quantum physics. It plays a crucial role in the study of parameterized quantum states, as it quantifies their sensitivity to variations in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Rafael Gómez-Lurbe

We study a scenario where an aircraft has multiple heterogeneous sensors collecting measurements to track a target vehicle of unknown location. The measurements are sampled along the flight path and our goals to optimize sensor placement to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-13 Matthew R. Kirchner , David Grimsman , Joao P. Hespanha , Jason R. Marden

The subjects of the paper are the likelihood method (LM) and the expected Fisher information (FI) considered from the point od view of the construction of the physical models which originate in the statistical description of phenomena. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-10-08 E. W. Piotrowski , J. Sladkowski , J. Syska , S. Zajac

Recently proposed methods in data subset selection, that is active learning and active sampling, use Fisher information, Hessians, similarity matrices based on gradients, and gradient lengths to estimate how informative data is for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Andreas Kirsch , Yarin Gal

The selection of optimal designs for generalized linear mixed models is complicated by the fact that the Fisher information matrix, on which most optimality criteria depend, is computationally expensive to evaluate. Our focus is on the…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-22 Timothy W. Waite , David C. Woods

Pairwise comparison models have been widely used for utility evaluation and rank aggregation across various fields. The increasing scale of modern problems underscores the need to understand statistical inference in these models when the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Ruijian Han , Wenlu Tang , Yiming Xu

This paper deals with the question of how to most effectively conduct experiments in Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes so as to provide data that is most informative about a parameter of interest. Methods from Markov decision…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2018-01-31 Leifur Thorbergsson , Giles Hooker
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