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The planning and design of future experiments rely heavily on forecasting to assess the potential scientific value provided by a hypothetical set of measurements. The Fisher information matrix, due to its convenient properties and low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Joseph Ryan , Brandon Stevenson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Joel Meyers

Classical Fisher-information asymptotics describe the covariance of regular efficient estimators through the local quadratic approximation of the log-likelihood, and thus capture first-order geometry only. In curved models, including…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Malik Amir , Sourangshu Ghosh

We derive a new variational principle for the quantum Fisher information leading to a simple iterative alternating algorithm, the convergence of which is proved. The case of a fixed measurement, i.e. the classical Fisher information, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Katarzyna Macieszczak

We investigate the quantum parameter estimation in circuit quantum electrodynamics via dispersive measurement. Based on the Metropolis Hastings (MH) algorithm and the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) integration, a new algorithm is proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Beili Gong , Yang Yang , Wei Cui

Theoretical studies in gravitational wave astronomy often require the calculation of Fisher Information Matrices and Likelihood functions, which in a direct approach entail the costly step of computing gravitational waveforms. Here I…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-07 Neil J. Cornish

The quantum Fisher information (QFI) is a fundamental quantity of interest in many areas from quantum metrology to quantum information theory. It can in particular be used as a witness to establish the degree of multi-particle entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Aniket Rath , Cyril Branciard , Anna Minguzzi , Benoît Vermersch

How to design a Markov Decision Process (MDP) based radar controller that makes small sacrifices in performance to mask its sensing plan from an adversary? The radar controller purposefully minimizes the Fisher information of its emissions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Shashwat Jain , Vikram Krishnamurthy , Muralidhar Rangaswamy , Bosung Kang , Sandeep Gogineni

We derive general upper bounds to pointwise mutual information in terms of stochastic Fisher information and show these bounds average to known results in the literature for bounds to mutual information in terms of Fisher information. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Pedro B. Melo

The quality of numerical reconstructions for unknown parameters in inverse problems depends fundamentally on the selection of experimental data. To ensure a robust reconstruction, it is crucial to select data that are sensitive to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Kathrin Hellmuth , Christian Klingenberg , Qin Li

The quantum Fisher information is of considerable interest not only for quantum metrology but also because it is a useful entanglement measure for finite temperature mixed states. In particular, it estimates the degree to which multipartite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-15 James Lambert , Erik Sorensen

Mixture-of-Experts models are commonly used when there exist distinct clusters with different relationships between the independent and dependent variables. Fitting such models for large datasets, however, is computationally virtually…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-06 Yanxi Liu , John Stufken , Min Yang

Preconditioning with the quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is a popular approach in quantum variational algorithms. Yet the QFIM is costly to obtain directly, usually requiring more state preparation than its classical counterpart:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Jianfeng Lu , Kecen Sha

Deep neural networks are typically represented by a much larger number of parameters than shallow models, making them prohibitive for small footprint devices. Recent research shows that there is considerable redundancy in the parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Ming Tu , Visar Berisha , Yu Cao , Jae-sun Seo

The Fisher information matrix is used widely in astronomy (and presumably other fields) to forecast the precision of future experiments while they are still in the design phase. Although many sources describe the mathematics of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 David Wittman

Recently proposed methods in data subset selection, that is active learning and active sampling, use Fisher information, Hessians, similarity matrices based on gradients, and gradient lengths to estimate how informative data is for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Andreas Kirsch , Yarin Gal

For linear mixed models with co-variance matrices which are not linearly dependent on variance component parameters, we prove that the average of the observed information and the Fisher information can be split into two parts. The essential…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-11 Shengxin Zhu , Tongxiang Gu , Xingping Liu

This paper provides a mathematical framework for Fisher information analysis for inverse problems based on Gaussian noise on infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. The covariance operator for the Gaussian noise is assumed to be trace class,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Sven Nordebo , Mats Gustafsson , Andrei Khrennikov , Bö rje Nilsson , Joachim Toft

We prove two lower bounds for the complexity of non-log-concave sampling within the framework of Balasubramanian et al. (2022), who introduced the use of Fisher information (FI) bounds as a notion of approximate first-order stationarity in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Sinho Chewi , Patrik Gerber , Holden Lee , Chen Lu

We propose a modified $\chi^{\beta}$-divergence, give some of its properties, and show that this leads to the definition of a generalized Fisher information. We give generalized Cram\'er-Rao inequalities, involving this Fisher information,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Jean-François Bercher

This paper introduces a method for efficiently approximating the inverse of the Fisher information matrix, a crucial step in achieving effective variational Bayes inference. A notable aspect of our approach is the avoidance of analytically…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-29 A. Godichon-Baggioni , D. Nguyen , M-N Tran
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