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In information theory, the link between continuous information and discrete information is established through well-known sampling theorems. Sampling theory explains, for example, how frequency-filtered music signals are reconstructible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Achim Kempf

Contrast functions play a fundamental role in information geometry, providing a means for generating the geometric structures of a statistical manifold: a pseudo-Riemannian metric and a pair of torsion-free conjugate affine connections.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Florio M. Ciaglia , Giuseppe Marmo , Marco Pacelli , Luca Schiavone , Alessandro Zampini

This paper introduces a novel approach to statistics and data analysis, departing from the conventional assumption of data residing in Euclidean space to consider a Riemannian Manifold. The challenge lies in the absence of vector space…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-14 Oldemar Rodriguez Rojas

This introductory text arises from a lecture given in G\"oteborg, Sweden, given by the first author and is intended for undergraduate students, as well as for any mathematically inclined reader wishing to explore a synthesis of ideas…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Noémie C. Combe , Philippe G. Combe , Hanna K. Nencka

We introduce the category of information structures, whose objects are suitable diagrams of measurable sets that encode the possible outputs of a given family of observables and their mutual relationships of refinement; they serve as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Juan Pablo Vigneaux

Continual learning aims to efficiently learn from a non-stationary stream of data while avoiding forgetting the knowledge of old data. In many practical applications, data complies with non-Euclidean geometry. As such, the commonly used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhi Gao , Chen Xu , Feng Li , Yunde Jia , Mehrtash Harandi , Yuwei Wu

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

We study two aspects of information semantics: (i) the collection of all relationships, (ii) tracking and spotting anomaly and change. The first is implemented by endowing all relevant information spaces with a Euclidean metric in a common…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-01-11 Fionn Murtagh

Efficiently accessing the information contained in non-linear and high dimensional probability distributions remains a core challenge in modern statistics. Traditionally, estimators that go beyond point estimates are either categorized as…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-06 Philipp Frank , Reimar Leike , Torsten A. Enßlin

The present paper aims to develop a mathematical model concerning the visual perception of spatial information. It is a challenging problem in theoretical neuroscience to investigate how the spatial information of the objects in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-21 Debasis Mazumdar , Kuntal Ghosh , Soma Mitra , Late Kamales Bhaumik

Information geometry and Wasserstein geometry are two main structures introduced in a manifold of probability distributions, and they capture its different characteristics. We study characteristics of Wasserstein geometry in the framework…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Shun-ichi Amari , Takeru Matsuda

While Kolmogorov complexity is the accepted absolute measure of information content in an individual finite object, a similarly absolute notion is needed for the information distance between two individual objects, for example, two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-18 Charles H. Bennett , Peter Gacs , Ming Li , Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Wojciech H. Zurek

We develop an information-theoretic approach to isoperimetric inequalities based on entropy dissipation under heat flow. By viewing diffusion as a noisy information channel, we measure how mutual information about set membership decays over…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-20 Amandip Sangha

Motivated by the increasing connections between information theory and high-energy physics, particularly in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we explore the information geometry associated to a variety of simple systems. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Johanna Erdmenger , Kevin T. Grosvenor , Ro Jefferson

We propose a dimension reduction framework for feature extraction and moment reconstruction in dynamical systems that operates on spaces of probability measures induced by observables of the system rather than directly in the original data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-07 Suddhasattwa Das , Dimitrios Giannakis , Enikő Székely

In the application of Bayesian methods to metrology, pre-data probabilities play a critical role in the estimation of the model uncertainty. Following the observation that distributions form Riemann's manifolds, methods of differential…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-12-17 Giovanni Mana , Carlo Palmisano

The development of John Aitchison's approach to compositional data analysis is followed since his paper read to the Royal Statistical Society in 1982. Aitchison's logratio approach, which was proposed to solve the problematic aspects of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-19 Michael Greenacre , Eric Grunsky , John Bacon-Shone , Ionas Erb , Thomas Quinn

The geometric approach to optimal transport and information theory has triggered the interpretation of probability densities as an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold. The most studied Riemannian structures are Otto's metric, yielding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-20 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin

This paper prescribes a distance between learning tasks modeled as joint distributions on data and labels. Using tools in information geometry, the distance is defined to be the length of the shortest weight trajectory on a Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yansong Gao , Pratik Chaudhari

It is shown that the geometry of quantum theory can be derived from geometrical structure that may be considered more fundamental. The basic elements of this reconstruction of quantum theory are the natural metric on the space of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Marcel Reginatto