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We study the error introduced by entropy regularization in infinite-horizon discrete discounted Markov decision processes. We show that this error decreases exponentially in the inverse regularization strength, both in a weighted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Johannes Müller , Semih Cayci

We derive a strong law of large numbers, a central limit theorem, a law of the iterated logarithm and a large deviation theorem for so-called deviation means of independent and identically distributed random variables (for the strong law of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Matyas Barczy , Zsolt Páles

Microscopic formula to describe the entropy of biomolecular solutions are derived based on the Gibbs formula of entropy, and the generalized Langevin theory combined with the RISM/3D-RISM theory. Two formula are derived: one is concerned…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-02 Fumio Hirata

This work analyzes different notions of entropy and its production in $ep$ and heavy-ion collisions, focusing on the early stages of the collision. To this end, the importance of phenomena such as quantum entanglement and decoherence in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 G. S. Ramos

We exploit the idea to use the maximal-entropy method, successfully tested in information theory and statistical thermodynamics, to determine approximating function's coefficients and squared errors' weights simultaneously as output of one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Domenico Giordano , Felice Iavernaro

In this paper we remark that Shannon entropy can be expressed as a function of the self-information (i.e. the logarithm) and the inverse of the Lambert $W$ function. It means that we consider that Shannon entropy has the trace form: $-k…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-05 Laurent Truffet

Entropy stable methods have become increasingly popular in the field of computational fluid dynamics. They often work by satisfying some form of a discrete entropy inequality: a discrete form of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Schemes which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Brian Christner , Jesse Chan

Maximum entropy distributions with discrete support in $m$ dimensions arise in machine learning, statistics, information theory, and theoretical computer science. While structural and computational properties of max-entropy distributions…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

The ``Gibbs Paradox'' refers to several related questions concerning entropy in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics: whether it is an extensive quantity or not, how it changes when identical particles are mixed, and the proper way to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chih-Yuan Tseng , Ariel Caticha

Entropy stabilization of the compressible Euler system is achieved by adapting the averages that are applied to the density and internal energy variables. The approach achieves non-linear robustness despite the use of simplified symmetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-21 Carlo De Michele , Ayaboe K. Edoh

In this article we describe the applications of the relative entropy framework. In particular uniqueness of an entropy solution is proven for a scalar conservation law, using the notion of measure-valued entropy solutions. Further we survey…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Tomasz Dębiec , Piotr Gwiazda , Kamila Łyczek , Agnieszka Świerczewska-Gwiazda

The notion of slow entropy, both upper and lower slow entropy, was defined by Katok and Thouvenot as a more refined measure of complexity for dynamical systems, than the classical Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy. For any subexponential rate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Terry Adams

We present a new methodology for the characterization of the metric entropy of infinite-dimensional ellipsoids with exponentially decaying semi-axes. This procedure does not rely on the explicit construction of coverings or packings and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Thomas Allard , Helmut Bölcskei

Information theory on a time-discrete setting in the framework of time series analysis is generalized to the time-continuous case. Considerations of the Roessler and Lorenz dynamics as well as the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process yield for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-06-04 Detlef Holstein

Neural networks have dramatically increased our capacity to learn from large, high-dimensional datasets across innumerable disciplines. However, their decisions are not easily interpretable, their computational costs are high, and building…

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We establish a link between the phenomenon of Taylor dispersion and the theory of empirical distributions. Using this connection, we derive, upon applying the theory of large deviations, an alternative and much more precise description of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 Marcel Kahlen , Andreas Engel , Christian Van den Broeck

The 1D Mueller dipole model, its high energy limit, and its generalization were investigated. To address the ambiguity stemming from different definitions of the pseudorapidity ranges in experimental measurements, we propose the entropy as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 Krzysztof Kutak , Sándor Lökös

We obtain the large deviation function for entropy production of the medium and its distribution function for two-site totally asymmetric simple exclusion process(TASEP) and three-state unicyclic network. Since such systems are described…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-29 Bappa Saha , Sutapa Mukherji

Maximum entropy approach to classification is very well studied in applied statistics and machine learning and almost all the methods that exists in literature are discriminative in nature. In this paper, we introduce a maximum entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Ambedkar Dukkipati , Gaurav Pandey , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar , Paramita Koley , D. M. V. Satya Sriram

Although neural networks can solve very complex machine-learning problems, the theoretical reason for their generalizability is still not fully understood. Here we use Wang-Landau Mote Carlo algorithm to calculate the entropy (logarithm of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-06 Ge Zhang