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This study investigates entropy's potential for analyzing scientific research patterns across disciplines. Originating from thermodynamics, entropy now measures uncertainty and diversity in information systems. We examine Shannon Entropy,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-27 Yujie Shi , Alex Jie Yang , Sanhong Deng

The entropy power inequality for independent random vectors is a foundational result of information theory, with deep connections to probability and geometric functional analysis. Several extensions of the entropy power inequality have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Cyril Roberto

Data structure has a dramatic impact on the properties of neural networks, yet its significance in the established theoretical frameworks is poorly understood. Here we compute the Vapnik-Chervonenkis entropy of a kernel machine operating on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Pietro Rotondo , Mauro Pastore , Marco Gherardi

Causal inference is perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts in science, beginning originally from the works of some of the ancient philosophers, through today, but also weaved strongly in current work from statisticians, machine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Sudam Surasinghe , Erik M. Bollt

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

One of the founding paradigms of machine learning is that a small number of variables is often sufficient to describe high-dimensional data. The minimum number of variables required is called the intrinsic dimension (ID) of the data.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 Michele Allegra , Elena Facco , Francesco Denti , Alessandro Laio , Antonietta Mira

We consider the task of estimating a conditional density using i.i.d. samples from a joint distribution, which is a fundamental problem with applications in both classification and uncertainty quantification for regression. For joint…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Blair Bilodeau , Dylan J. Foster , Daniel M. Roy

'Causal' direction is of great importance when dealing with complex systems. Often big volumes of data in the form of time series are available and it is important to develop methods that can inform about possible causal connections between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-24 Fatimah Abdul Razak , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

Over the last few years, machine learning unlocked previously infeasible features for compression, such as providing guarantees for users' privacy or tailoring compression to specific data statistics (e.g., satellite images or audio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Gergely Flamich

High-dimensional data commonly lies on low-dimensional submanifolds, and estimating the local intrinsic dimension (LID) of a datum -- i.e. the dimension of the submanifold it belongs to -- is a longstanding problem. LID can be understood as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hamidreza Kamkari , Brendan Leigh Ross , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Jesse C. Cresswell , Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem

The intriguing relationship between entropy and diffusion is a subject of much current interest. However, the experimentally observed unusual non-monotonic dependence of limiting ionic conductivity on inverse ion size is neither described…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-23 Puja Banerjee , Biman Bagchi

An empirical investigation of the interaction of sample size and discretization - in this case the entropy-based method CAIM (Class-Attribute Interdependence Maximization) - was undertaken to evaluate the impact and potential bias…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-01-09 Casey Bennett

The various entropy bounds that exist in the literature suggest that spacetime is fundamentally discrete, and hint at an underlying relationship between geometry and "information". The foundation of this relationship is yet to be uncovered,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Rideout , S. Zohren

Verifying uniform conditions over continuous spaces through random sampling is fundamental in machine learning and control theory, yet classical coverage analyses often yield conservative bounds, particularly at small failure probabilities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Lyu Yuhuan

We explore the use of Intrinsic Dimension (ID) for gaining insights in how populations evolve in Evolutionary Algorithms. ID measures the minimum number of dimensions needed to accurately describe a dataset and its estimators are being used…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Eric Medvet , Alberto Bartoli , Alessio Ansuini , Fabiano Tarlao

Information has an entropic character which can be analyzed within the Statistical Theory in molecular systems. R. Landauer and C.H. Bennett showed that a logical copy can be carried out in the limit of no dissipation if the computation is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-08-15 J. Ricardo Arias-Gonzalez

Numerous entropy-type characteristics (functionals) generalizing R\'enyi entropy are widely used in mathematical statistics, physics, information theory, and signal processing for characterizing uncertainty in probability distributions and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-28 David Källberg , Nikolaj Leonenko , Oleg Seleznjev

Measures of dependence among variables, and measures of information content and shared information have become valuable tools of multi-variable data analysis. Information measures, like marginal entropies, mutual and multi-information, have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-02 David J. Galas , Nikita A. Sakhanenko , Benjamin Keller

Computational entropies provide a framework for quantifying uncertainty and randomness under computational constraints. They play a central role in classical cryptography, underpinning the analysis and construction of primitives such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Noam Avidan , Rotem Arnon

A method for estimating the Shannon differential entropy of multidimensional random variables using independent samples is described. The method is based on decomposing the distribution into a product of the marginal distributions and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Gil Ariel , Yoram Louzoun