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In this paper, we give the refinement of an extension of Jensen's inequality to affine combinations. Furthermore, we present the functional form of Jensen's inequality for continuous 3-convex functions of one variable at a point.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Imran Abbas Baloch , Silvestru Sever Dragomir

We give a Jensen operator inequality for strongly convex functions. As a corollary, we improve operator Holder-McCarthy inequality under suitable conditions.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-07 H. R. Moradi , R. Naseri

Statistical inverse learning aims at recovering an unknown function $f$ from randomly scattered and possibly noisy point evaluations of another function $g$, connected to $f$ via an ill-posed mathematical model. In this paper we blend…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Tapio Helin

Quantifying the difference between probability distributions is crucial in machine learning. However, estimating statistical divergences from empirical samples is challenging due to unknown underlying distributions. This work proposes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jhoan K. Hoyos-Osorio , Luis G. Sanchez-Giraldo

Mutual information is fundamentally important for measuring statistical dependence between variables and for quantifying information transfer by signaling and communication mechanisms. It can, however, be challenging to evaluate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Clive G. Bowsher , Margaritis Voliotis

For every given real value of the ratio $\mu:=A_X/G_X>1$ of the arithmetic and geometric means of a positive random variable $X$ and every real $v>0$, exact upper bounds on the right- and left-tail probabilities $\mathsf{P}(X/G_X\ge v)$ and…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Iosif Pinelis

In this paper we deal with improvement of Jensen, Jensen-Steffensen's and Jensen's functionals related inequalities for uniformly convex, phi-convex and superquadratic functions.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Shoshana Abramovich

In this paper we improve results related to Normalized Jensen Functional for convex functions and Uniformly Convex Functions.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Shoshana Abramovich

Mutual information is commonly used as a measure of similarity between competing labelings of a given set of objects, for example to quantify performance in classification and community detection tasks. As argued recently, however, the…

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Estimating mutual information (MI) is a fundamental yet challenging task in data science and machine learning. This work proposes a new estimator for mutual information. Our main discovery is that a preliminary estimate of the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yanzhi Chen , Zijing Ou , Adrian Weller , Yingzhen Li

Given a function $f$ defined on a nonempty and convex subset of the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, we prove that if $f$ is bounded from below and it satisfies a convexity-type functional inequality with infinite convex combinations, then…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Matyas Barczy , Zsolt Páles

The geometric Jensen--Shannon divergence (G-JSD) gained popularity in machine learning and information sciences thanks to its closed-form expression between Gaussian distributions. In this work, we introduce an alternative definition of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Frank Nielsen

In this paper we prove results on the difference between a normalized Jensen functional and the sum of other normalized Jensen functionals for convex function.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Shoshana Abramovich

Convex regression is a method for estimating the convex function from a data set. This method has played an important role in operations research, economics, machine learning, and many other areas. However, it has been empirically observed…

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The mutual information of two random variables i and j with joint probabilities t_ij is commonly used in learning Bayesian nets as well as in many other fields. The chances t_ij are usually estimated by the empirical sampling frequency…

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This note demonstrates that it is possible to bound the expectation of an arbitrary norm of a random matrix drawn from the Stiefel manifold in terms of the expected norm of a standard Gaussian matrix with the same dimensions. A related…

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A simple, intuitive approach to the assessment of probabilistic inferences is introduced. The Shannon information metrics are translated to the probability domain. The translation shows that the negative logarithmic score and the geometric…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2018-12-27 Kenric P. Nelson

In this paper, we state some characterizations of $h$-convex function is defined on a convex set in a linear space. By doing so, we extend the Jensen-Mercer inequality for $h$-convex function. We will also define $h$-convex function for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 M. Abbasi , A. Morassaei , F. Mirzapour

Comparative convexity is a generalization of convexity relying on abstract notions of means. We define the Jensen divergence and the Jensen diversity from the viewpoint of comparative convexity, and show how to obtain the generalized…

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