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Accurate approximation of probability measures is essential in numerical applications. This paper explores the quantization of probability measures using the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) distance as a guiding metric. We first investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Zahra Mehraban , Alois Pichler

Mutual information is a general statistical dependency measure which has found applications in representation learning, causality, domain generalization and computational biology. However, mutual information estimators are typically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-17 Paweł Czyż , Frederic Grabowski , Julia E. Vogt , Niko Beerenwinkel , Alexander Marx

Mutual information is a measure of the dependence between random variables that has been used successfully in myriad applications in many fields. Generalized mutual information measures that go beyond classical Shannon mutual information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kevin R. Moon , Kumar Sricharan , Alfred O. Hero

Recently, a framework for application-oriented optimal experiment design has been introduced. In this context, the distance of the estimated system from the true one is measured in terms of a particular end-performance metric. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Dimitrios Katselis , Cristian R. Rojas , Carolyn L. Beck

In the context of Independent Component Analysis (ICA), noisy mixtures pose a dilemma regarding the desired objective. On one hand, a "maximally separating" solution, providing the minimal attainable Interference-to-Source-Ratio (ISR),…

Applications · Statistics 2019-10-02 Amir Weiss , Arie Yeredor

This paper considers probabilistic estimation of a low-rank matrix from non-linear element-wise measurements of its elements. We derive the corresponding approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm and its state evolution. Relying on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Thibault Lesieur , Florent Krzakala , Lenka Zdeborová

The effects of quantization and coding on the estimation quality of a Gauss-Markov, namely Ornstein-Uhlenbeck, process are considered. Samples are acquired from the process, quantized, and then encoded for transmission using either infinite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Ahmed Arafa , Karim Banawan , Karim G. Seddik , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a certain class of large random matrices, composed of independent column vectors with zero mean and different covariance matrices, and derive asymptotically tight deterministic approximations of their moments. This random matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Jakob Hoydis , Merouane Debbah , Mari Kobayashi

Consider random linear estimation with Gaussian measurement matrices and noise. One can compute infinitesimal variations of the mutual information under infinitesimal variations of the signal-to-noise ratio or of the measurement rate. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-14 Jean Barbier , Nicolas Macris

This paper studies the remote state estimation problem of linear time-invariant systems with stochastic event-triggered sensor schedules in the presence of packet drops between the sensor and the estimator. It is shown that the system state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Liang Xu , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

We consider mean squared estimation with lookahead of a continuous-time signal corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. We show that the mutual information rate function, i.e., the mutual information rate as function of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman , Yair Carmon , Shlomo Shamai

Information theoretic quantities play an important role in various settings in machine learning, including causality testing, structure inference in graphical models, time-series problems, feature selection as well as in providing privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Arman Rahimzamani , Himanshu Asnani , Pramod Viswanath , Sreeram Kannan

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence between two variables, yet accurate estimation from finite data remains notoriously difficult. No estimator is universally reliable, and common approaches fail in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-02 Eslam Abdelaleem , K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

In this work, we use real-world data in order to evaluate and validate a machine learning (ML)-based algorithm for physical layer functionalities. Specifically, we apply a recently introduced Gaussian mixture model (GMM)-based algorithm in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Fesl , Moritz Grundei , Michael Koller , Wolfgang Utschick

Information entropy is applied to the state of knowledge of reaction amplitudes in pseudoscalar meson photoproduction, and a scheme is developed that quantifies the information content of a measured set of polarization observables. It is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-02 D. G. Ireland

In this paper, we generalize the fundamental relation between the derivative of the mutual information and the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) to multiuser setups. We prove that the derivative of the mutual information with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Samah A. M. Ghanem

We study the excess mean square error (EMSE) above the minimum mean square error (MMSE) in large linear systems where the posterior mean estimator (PME) is evaluated with a postulated prior that differs from the true prior of the input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Yanting Ma , Dror Baron , Ahmad Beirami

Compressed sensing typically deals with the estimation of a system input from its noise-corrupted linear measurements, where the number of measurements is smaller than the number of input components. The performance of the estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jin Tan , Danielle Carmon , Dror Baron

We consider the problem of estimating the common mean of independently sampled data, where samples are drawn in a possibly non-identical manner from symmetric, unimodal distributions with a common mean. This generalizes the setting of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Ankit Pensia , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

This work considers millimeter-wave channel estimation in a setting where parameters of the underlying mmWave channels are varying dynamically over time and there is a single drifting path. In this setting, channel estimates at time block…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Dror Baron , Cynthia Rush , Yavuz Yapici