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This short note revisit information metric, underlining that it is a pseudo metric on manifolds of observables (random variables), rather than as usual on probability laws. Geodesics are characterized in terms of their boundaries and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Pierre Baudot

This paper is about Information Geometry, a relatively new subject within mathematical statistics that attempts to study the problem of inference by using tools from modern differential geometry. This paper provides an overview of some of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos C. Rodriguez

We review a nonparametric version of Amari's Information Geometry in which the set of positive probability densities on a given sample space is endowed with an atlas of charts to form a differentiable manifold modeled on Orlicz Banach…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Giovanni Pistone

In this paper and a companion paper, we show how the framework of information geometry, a geometry of discrete probability distributions, can form the basis of a derivation of the quantum formalism. The derivation rests upon a few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-14 Philip Goyal

The manifold of empirical mean values of statistical data ad infinitum has a geometric shape that depends on the probability measure that governs the generating model. Large deviation theory produces entropy functions that depend on both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Viswa Virinchi Muppirala , Hong Qian

The methods of Information geometry have been glowing up to develop various subjects of theoretical physics, including quantum information systems. The present article has two purposes. The first one is to develop general theory of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Yu Ohno

The information geometry of the 2-manifold of gamma probability density functions provides a framework in which pseudorandom number generators may be evaluated using a neighbourhood of the curve of exponential density functions. The process…

Computation · Statistics 2009-07-13 C. T. J. Dodson

In this work, we study generalized entropies and information geometry in a group-theoretical framework. We explore the conditions that ensure the existence of some natural properties and at the same time of a group-theoretical structure for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Miguel A. Rodríguez , Álvaro Romaniega , Piergiulio Tempesta

Information Geometry has been used to inspire efficient algorithms for stochastic optimization, both in the combinatorial and the continuous case. We give an overview of the authors' research program and some specific contributions to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Luigi Malagò , Giovanni Pistone

Algorithmic information theory studies description complexity and randomness and is now a well known field of theoretical computer science and mathematical logic. There are several textbooks and monographs devoted to this theory where one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Alexander Shen

The first part of these notes is a self-contained introduction to generalized complex geometry. It is intended as a `user manual' for tools used in the study of supersymmetric backgrounds of supergravity. In the second part we review some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Dimitrios Tsimpis

This article is a survey of recent developments in, and a tutorial on, the approach to P v. NP and related questions called Geometric Complexity Theory (GCT). It is written to be accessible to graduate students. Numerous open questions in…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-13 J. M. Landsberg

It is known that statistical model selection as well as identification of dynamical equations from available data are both very challenging tasks. Physical systems behave according to their underlying dynamical equations which, in turn, can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Sean Alan Ali , Carlo Cafaro

We introduce a new information-geometric structure associated with the dynamics on discrete objects such as graphs and hypergraphs. The presented setup consists of two dually flat structures built on the vertex and edge spaces,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tetsuya J. Kobayashi , Dimitri Loutchko , Atsushi Kamimura , Shuhei A. Horiguchi , Yuki Sughiyama

We consider a system with a discrete configuration space. We show that the geometrical structures associated with such a system provide the tools necessary for a reconstruction of discrete quantum mechanics once dynamics is brought into the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Marcel Reginatto , Michael J. W. Hall

Information geometric techniques and inductive inference methods hold great promise for solving computational problems of interest in classical and quantum physics, especially with regard to complexity characterization of dynamical systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. A. Ali , C. Cafaro , A. Giffin , D. -H. Kim

In this paper, we introduce \emph{$\ell^p$-information geometry}, an infinite dimensional framework that shares key features with the geometry of the space of probability densities \( \mathrm{Dens}(M) \) on a closed manifold, while also…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Levin Maier

In this paper, we propose an information geometry (IG) framework to solve the standard linear regression problem. The proposed framework is an extension of the one for computing the mean of complex multivariate Gaussian distribution. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Bingyan Liu , An-An Lu , Mingrui Fan , Jiyuan Yang , Xiqi Gao

We introduce a new `geometric realization' of an (abstract) simplicial complex, inspired by probability theory. This space (and its completion) is a metric space, which has the right (weak) homotopy type, and which can be compared with the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Ivan Marin

Various kinds of data are routinely represented as discrete probability distributions. Examples include text documents summarized by histograms of word occurrences and images represented as histograms of oriented gradients. Viewing a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Herbert Edelsbrunner , Ziga Virk , Hubert Wagner