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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

The mutual information between two jointly distributed random variables $X$ and $Y$ is a functional of the joint distribution $P_{XY},$ which is sometimes difficult to handle or estimate. A coarser description of the statistical behavior of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yanjun Han , Or Ordentlich , Ofer Shayevitz

We derive upper bounds on the quantum Fisher information in interferometry with $N$ subsystems, e.g. two-level atoms or Gaussian modes, in the presence of arbitrarily correlated Gaussian dephasing including independent and collective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-06 Katarzyna Macieszczak

The Fisher Information Matrix formalism is extended to cases where the data is divided into two parts (X,Y), where the expectation value of Y depends on X according to some theoretical model, and X and Y both have errors with arbitrary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 A. F. Heavens , M. Seikel , B. D. Nord , M. Aich , Y. Bouffanais , B. A. Bassett , M. P. Hobson

We derive a connection between performance of estimators the performance of the ideal observer on related detection tasks. Specifically we show how Shannon Information for the task of detecting a change in a parameter is related to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Eric Clarkson

In continuation to a recent work on the statistical--mechanical analysis of minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation in Gaussian noise via its relation to the mutual information (the I-MMSE relation), here we propose a simple and more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

In this brief note we compute the Fisher information of a family of generalized normal distributions. Fisher information is usually defined for regular distributions, i.e. continuously differentiable (log) density functions whose support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Precious Ugo Abara , Sandra Hirche

We consider the estimation of a signal from the knowledge of its noisy linear random Gaussian projections, a problem relevant in compressed sensing, sparse superposition codes or code division multiple access just to cite few. There has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Jean Barbier , Mohamad Dia , Nicolas Macris , Florent Krzakala

The principle of minimum Fisher information states that in the set of acceptable probability distributions characterizing the given system, it is best done by the one that minimizes the corresponding Fisher information. This principle can…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-03-24 Marcin Makowski , Edward W. Piotrowski , Piotr Frąckiewicz , Marek Szopa

We employ a unified framework for computing the information capacity of biological signaling systems using Fisher Information. By deriving closed-form or easily computable information capacity formulas, we quantify how well different…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Michał Komorowski

Although Shannon mutual information has been widely used, its effective calculation is often difficult for many practical problems, including those in neural population coding. Asymptotic formulas based on Fisher information sometimes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Wentao Huang , Kechen Zhang

The mutual information is bounded from above by a decreasing affine function of the square of the distance between the input distribution and the set of all capacity-achieving input distributions $\Pi_{\mathcal{A}}$, on small enough…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Barış Nakiboğlu , Hao-Chung Cheng

The data for many classification problems, such as pattern and speech recognition, follow mixture distributions. To quantify the optimum performance for classification tasks, the Shannon mutual information is a natural information-theoretic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Yijun Ding , Amit Ashok

The problem how to approximately determine the absolute value of the Fisher information measure for a general parametric probabilistic system is considered. Having available the first and second moment of the system output in a parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Manuel Stein , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

This paper considers the problem of estimation of the Fisher information for location from a random sample of size $n$. First, an estimator proposed by Bhattacharya is revisited and improved convergence rates are derived. Second, a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Wei Cao , Alex Dytso , Michael Fauß , H. Vincent Poor , Gang Feng

By using the $q$-Gaussian distribution derived by the maximum entropy method for spatially-correlated $N$-unit nonextensive systems, we have calculated the generalized Fisher information matrix of $g_{\theta_n \theta_m}$ for $(\theta_1,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hideo Hasegawa

We study the tradeoff between the statistical error and communication cost of distributed statistical estimation problems in high dimensions. In the distributed sparse Gaussian mean estimation problem, each of the $m$ machines receives $n$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Mark Braverman , Ankit Garg , Tengyu Ma , Huy L. Nguyen , David P. Woodruff

We study schemes and lower bounds for distributed minimax statistical estimation over a Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) under squared error loss, in a framework combining statistical estimation and wireless communication. First, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Chuan-Zheng Lee , Leighton Pate Barnes , Ayfer Ozgur

We propose a gradient-based framework for optimizing parametric nonlinear Gaussian channels via mutual information maximization. Leveraging the score-to-Fisher bridge (SFB) methodology, we derive a computationally tractable formula for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tadashi Wadayama

The design and analysis of diffusive molecular communication systems generally requires knowledge of the environment's physical and chemical properties. Furthermore, prospective applications might rely on the timely detection of changes in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Adam Noel , Karen C. Cheung , Robert Schober