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We take another look at the general problem of selecting a preferred probability measure among those that comply with some given constraints. The dominant role that entropy maximization has obtained in this context is questioned by arguing…

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In 1959, R\'enyi proposed the information dimension and the $d$-dimensional entropy to measure the information content of general random variables. This paper proposes a generalization of information dimension to stochastic processes by…

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M. Gromov introduced the mean dimension for a continuous map in the late 1990's, which is an invariant under topological conjugacy. On the other hand, the notion of metric mean dimension for a dynamical system was introduced by…

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Variational approaches based on neural networks are showing promise for estimating mutual information (MI) between high dimensional variables. However, they can be difficult to use in practice due to poorly understood bias/variance…

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We introduce local topological entropy $h_{\text{top}}(T, \mathcal{U})$ and two kinds of local measure-theoretic entropy $h_{\mu}^{(r)-}(T,\mathcal{U})$ and $h_{\mu}^{(r)+}(T,\mathcal{U})$ for random bundle transformations. We derive a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-02-17 Xianfeng Ma , Ercai Chen

We redefine BS-dimension for Caratheodory structure by packing method. We have the same dimension properties with respect to the cover method and check the Bowen's equation for the new dimension as well. Besides, we consider the relation…

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We extend the parametric geometry of numbers (initiated by Schmidt and Summerer, and deepened by Roy) to Diophantine approximation for systems of $m$ linear forms in $n$ variables, and establish a new connection to the metric theory via a…

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In this paper we extend the definitions of mean dimension and metric mean di-mension for non-autonomous dynamical systems. We show some properties of this extension and furthermore some applications to the mean dimension and metric mean…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Fagner Bernardini Rodrigues , Jeovanny de Jesus Muentes Acevedo

We review with a tutorial scope the information theory foundations of quantum statistical physics. Only a small proportion of the variables that characterize a system at the microscopic scale can be controlled, for both practical and…

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For a topological system with positive topological entropy, we show that the induced transformation on the set of probability measures endowed with the weak-$*$ topology has infinite topological mean dimension. We also estimate the rate of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-22 David Burguet , Ruxi Shi

Bitseki and Delmas (2021) have studied recently the central limit theorem for kernel estimator of invariant density in bifurcating Markov chains models. We complete their work by proving a moderate deviation principle for this estimator.…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-09-03 S. Valère Bitseki Penda

Estimating and optimizing Mutual Information (MI) is core to many problems in machine learning; however, bounding MI in high dimensions is challenging. To establish tractable and scalable objectives, recent work has turned to variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Ben Poole , Sherjil Ozair , Aaron van den Oord , Alexander A. Alemi , George Tucker

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for complex-valued probability measures and explores their novel applications in information theory and statistical analysis. We define a complex probability measure as a phase-modulated…

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In recent years, a variety of novel measures of dependence have been introduced being capable of characterizing diverse types of directed dependence, hence diverse types of how a number of predictor variables $\mathbf{X} = (X_1, \dots,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Sebastian Fuchs , Carsten Limbach

This paper studies the Yang--Mills ASD equation over the cylinder as a non-linear evolution equation. We consider a dynamical system consisting of bounded orbits of this evolution equation. This system contains many chaotic orbits, and…

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Von Neumann entropy (VNE) is a fundamental quantity in quantum information theory and has recently been adopted in machine learning as a spectral measure of diversity for kernel matrices and kernel covariance operators. While maximizing VNE…

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Following [1], the aim of this paper is to analyze the relative weighted entropy involving the central moments weight functions. We compare the standard relative entropy with the weighted case in two particular forms of Gaussian…

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Quantum information measures such as the entropy and the mutual information find applications in physics, e.g., as correlation measures. Generalizing such measures based on the R\'enyi entropies is expected to enhance their scope in…

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Recent work on mutation-selection models has revealed that, under specific assumptions on the fitness function and the mutation rates, asymptotic estimates for the leading eigenvalue of the mutation-reproduction matrix may be obtained…

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In this paper we state the variational principle for the weighted porous media equation. It extends V.I. Arnold's approach to the description of Euler flows as a geodesics on some manifold, i.e. as a critical points of some energy…

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