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Quantum metrology promises precision beyond classical limits, yet environmental noise typically degrades the quantum resources required for such enhancement. In this work, we investigate frequency estimation in noisy continuous-variable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Ayan Patra , Manju , Aditi Sen De , Matteo G. A. Paris

Many physical, biological, and even social systems are faced with the problem of how to efficiently harvest free energy from an environment that can have many possible states, yet only have a limited number of harvesting protocols to choose…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-04 Harrison Hartle , David Wolpert , Andrew Stier , Christopher P. Kempes , Gonzalo Manzano

The formalism of Bayesian model selection provides a very elegant way of ranking different physical models in terms of how compatible they are with a given set of observed data. However, its practical application is often hampered by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Nathan Cohen , Jan Hamann , Ameek Malhotra

We investigate the efficiency of an isothermal Brownian work-to-work converter engine, composed of a Brownian particle coupled to a heat bath at a constant temperature. The system is maintained out of equilibrium by using two external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-25 Deepak Gupta , Sanjib Sabhapandit

The information plane (Tishby et al. arXiv:physics/0004057, Shwartz-Ziv et al. arXiv:1703.00810) has been proposed as an analytical tool for studying the learning dynamics of neural networks. It provides quantitative insight on how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Nathan Haboury , Mo Kordzanganeh , Alexey Melnikov , Pavel Sekatski

Geometric Brownian motion (GBM) is a key model for representing self-reproducing entities. Self-reproduction may be considered the definition of life [5], and the dynamics it induces are of interest to those concerned with living systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-09 Ole Peters , Alexander Adamou

Understanding the connections between information and thermodynamics has been among the most visible applications of stochastic thermodynamics. While recent theoretical advances have established that the second law of thermodynamics sets…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-22 Joseph N. E. Lucero , Jannik Ehrich , John Bechhoefer , David A. Sivak

Traffic accident prediction is crucial for enhancing road safety and mitigating congestion, and recent Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown promise in modeling the inherent graph-based traffic data. However, existing GNN- based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiangyu Jiang , Xiwen Chen , Hao Wang , Abolfazl Razi

We consider a ranking and selection (R&S) problem with the goal to select a system with the largest or smallest expected performance measure among a number of simulated systems with a pre-specified probability of correct selection. Fully…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-20 A. B. Dieker , Seong-Hee Kim

We analytically solve the finite-time control problem of driving an overdamped particle via an optical trap under costly measurement. By formulating this mesoscopic information engine within the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-10 Emanuele Panizon

Microorganisms such as bacteria are active matters which consume chemical energy and generate their unique run-and-tumble motion. A swarm of such microorganisms provide a nonequilibrium active environment whose noise characteristics are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 Jae Sung Lee , Jong-Min Park , Hyunggyu Park

For a GI/GI/1 queue, we show that the average sojourn time under the (blind) Randomized Multilevel Feedback algorithm is no worse than that under the Shortest Remaining Processing Time algorithm times a logarithmic function of the system…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Nikhil Bansal , Bart Kamphorst , Bert Zwart

We consider infinite-dimensional linear Gaussian Bayesian inverse problems with uncorrelated sensor data, and focus on the problem of finding sensor placements that maximize the expected information gain (EIG). This study is motivated by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Alen Alexanderian , Steven Maio

While externally driven information engines are well understood, the thermodynamic constraints of their autonomous counterparts remain an open question. Here, we investigate the finite-time operation of an autonomous machine functioning as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Wanyan Chen , Miao Chen , Yu-Han Ma

The accuracy of Bayesian inference can be negatively affected by the use of inaccurate forward models. In the case of gravitational-wave inference, accurate but computationally expensive waveform models are sometimes substituted with faster…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Miaoxin Liu , Xiao-Dong Li , Alvin J. K. Chua

Accurate link-level bicycling volume estimation is essential for sustainable urban transportation planning. However, many cities face significant challenges of high data sparsity due to limited bicycling count sensor coverage. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Mohit Gupta , Debjit Bhowmick , Rhys Newbury , Meead Saberi , Shirui Pan , Ben Beck

The nonequilibrium thermodynamics feature of a Brownian motor operating between two different heat baths is explored as a function of time $t$. Using the Gibbs entropy and Schnakenberg microscopic stochastic approach, we find exact closed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-08 Mesfin Asfaw Taye

In this paper an alternative approach to statistical mechanics based on the maximum information entropy principle (MaxEnt) is examined, specifically its close relation with the Gibbs method of ensembles. It is shown that the MaxEnt…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-30 Domagoj Kuic

Inverse design has made vast physical parameter spaces a substrate for emergent behavior. In sensing, the stakes of this principle are sharpest at the analog-to-digital boundary, where any information the hardware fails to capture is…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-29 Arvin Keshvari , William Tuxbury , Zin Lin

As an application of generalised statistical mechanics, it is studied a possible route toward a consistent generalised information theory in terms of a family of non-extensive, non-parametric entropies $H^\pm_D(P)$. Unlike other proposals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jesús Fuentes , Octavio Obregón