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We propose a new way to measure the balance between freedom and coherence in a dynamical system and a new measure of its internal variability. Based on the concept of entropy and ideas from neuroscience and information theory, we define…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Karl Petersen , Benjamin Wilson

The principle of maximum entropy provides a useful method for inferring statistical mechanics models from observations in correlated systems, and is widely used in a variety of fields where accurate data are available. While the assumptions…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-02 Ulisse Ferrari , Tomoyuki Obuchi , Thierry Mora

Maximum entropy modeling is a flexible and popular framework for formulating statistical models given partial knowledge. In this paper, rather than the traditional method of optimizing over the continuous density directly, we learn a smooth…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-01 Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem , Yuanjun Gao , John P. Cunningham

There is an overwhelmingly large literature and algorithms already available on `large scale inference problems' based on different modeling techniques and cultures. Our primary goal in this paper is \emph{not to add one more new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay

In this paper three different scenarios in wide band spectrum sensing have been studied. While the signal and noise statistics are supposed to be unspecified, random matrixes have been utilized in order to estimate the noise variance. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-14 Sajjad Imani , Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi , Mehdi Cheraghi

Information theoretic quantities are extremely useful in discovering relationships between two or more data sets. One popular method---particularly for continuous systems---for estimating these quantities is the nearest neighbour…

Computation · Statistics 2017-10-19 Joshua Brown , Terry Bossomaier , Lionel Barnett

Multiscale entropy (MSE) is a widely-used tool to analyze biomedical signals. It was proposed to overcome the deficiencies of conventional entropy methods when quantifying the complexity of time series. However, MSE is undefined for very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Hamed Azami , Mostafa Rostaghi , Daniel Abasolo , Javier Escudero

Data mixing methods play a crucial role in semi-supervised learning (SSL), but their application is unexplored in long-tailed semi-supervised learning (LTSSL). The primary reason is that the in-batch mixing manner fails to address class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hongwei Zheng , Linyuan Zhou , Han Li , Jinming Su , Xiaoming Wei , Xiaoming Xu

The theoretical analysis of many problems in physics, astronomy and applied mathematics requires an efficient numerical exploration of multimodal parameter spaces that exhibit broken ergodicity. Monte Carlo methods are widely used to deal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-02 Stefano Martiniani , Jacob D. Stevenson , David J. Wales , Daan Frenkel

Mixture distributions are a workhorse model for multimodal data in information theory, signal processing, and machine learning. Yet even when each component density is simple, the differential entropy of the mixture is notoriously hard to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Namyoon Lee

A constrained multivariate linear model is a multivariate linear model with the columns of its coefficient matrix constrained to lie in a known subspace. This class of models includes those typically used to study growth curves and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-05 Dennis Cook , Liliana Forzani , Lan Liu

Spectral variability in hyperspectral images can result from factors including environmental, illumination, atmospheric and temporal changes. Its occurrence may lead to the propagation of significant estimation errors in the unmixing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Ricardo Augusto Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , José Carlos Moreira Bermudez

Learned image compression methods have attracted great research interest and exhibited superior rate-distortion performance to the best classical image compression standards of the present. The entropy model plays a key role in learned…

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Importance sampling is a Monte Carlo method which designs estimators of expectations under a target distribution using weighted samples from a proposal distribution. When the target distribution is complex, such as multimodal distributions…

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A maximum entropy-based framework is presented for the synthesis of projections from multiple Earth climate models. This identifies the most representative (most probable) model from a set of climate models -- as defined by specified…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Robert K. Niven

We propose a method to derive the stationary size distributions of a system, and the degree distributions of networks, using maximisation of the Gibbs-Shannon entropy. We apply this to a preferential attachment-type algorithm for systems of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-17 Cornelia Metzig , Caroline Colijn

Lying at the interface between Network Science and Machine Learning, node embedding algorithms take a graph as input and encode its structure onto output vectors that represent nodes in an abstract geometric space, enabling various…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-03 Riccardo Milocco , Fabian Jansen , Diego Garlaschelli

Measuring the complexity of high-dimensional data in physical systems becomes a critical factor in determining the information and quality of the systems. However, traditional metrics, such as Lyapunov exponent, fractal dimension, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-03 Seong-Gyun Im , Taewoo Kang , S. Joon Kwon

A method for analytic continuation of imaginary-time correlation functions (here obtained in quantum Monte Carlo simulations) to real-frequency spectral functions is proposed. Stochastically sampling a spectrum parametrized by a large…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-30 Anders W. Sandvik

Identifying future congestion points in electricity distribution networks is an important challenge distribution system operators face. A proven approach for addressing this challenge is to assess distribution grid adequacy using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Julian N. Betge , Barbera Droste , Jacco Heres , Simon H. Tindemans