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We describe a method for forecasting errors in interferometric measurements of polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, based on the use of the Fisher matrix calculated from the visibility covariance and relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Haonan Liu , Emory F. Bunn

We propose an algorithm to select parameter subset combinations that can be estimated using an ordinary least-squares (OLS) inverse problem formulation with a given data set. First, the algorithm selects the parameter combinations that…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-04-16 Ariel Cintrón-Arias , H. T. Banks , Alex Capaldi , Alun L. Lloyd

We propose a method for estimating the Fisher score--the gradient of the log-likelihood with respect to model parameters--using score matching. By introducing a latent parameter model, we show that the Fisher score can be learned by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Ce Sui , Shivam Pandey , Benjamin D. Wandelt

One of the most popular methods for continual learning with deep neural networks is Elastic Weight Consolidation (EWC), which involves computing the Fisher Information. The exact way in which the Fisher Information is computed is however…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Gido M. van de Ven

In the present paper, we would like to draw attention to a possible generalized Fisher information that fits well in the formalism of nonextensive thermostatistics. This generalized Fisher information is defined for densities on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-18 J. -F. Bercher

We show how to verify the metrological usefulness of quantum states based on the expectation values of an arbitrarily chosen set of observables. In particular, we estimate the quantum Fisher information as a figure of merit of metrological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Iagoba Apellaniz , Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne , Geza Toth

This is the first of a pair of papers which address the problem of measuring the unredshifted power spectrum in optimal fashion from a survey of galaxies, with arbitrary geometry, for Gaussian or non-Gaussian fluctuations, in real or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. J. S. Hamilton

We consider two recent suggestions for how to perform an empirically motivated Monte Carlo study to help select a treatment effect estimator under unconfoundedness. We show theoretically that neither is likely to be informative except under…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-04-18 Arun Advani , Toru Kitagawa , Tymon Słoczyński

The quantum Fisher information, the quantum analogue of the classical Fisher information, is a central quantity in quantum metrology and quantum sensing due to its connection to parameter estimation and fidelity susceptibility. Using…

Fisher information, lies at the heart of parameter estimation theory, was recently found to have a close relation with multipartite entanglement (Pezz\'{e} and Smerzi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 100401). We use Fisher information to distinguish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 Jian Ma , Xiaoguang Wang

Natural gradient descent, which preconditions a gradient descent update with the Fisher information matrix of the underlying statistical model, is a way to capture partial second-order information. Several highly visible works have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Frederik Kunstner , Lukas Balles , Philipp Hennig

An approach based on the Fisher information (FI) is developed to quantify the maximum information gain and optimal experimental design in neutron reflectometry experiments. In these experiments, the FI can be analytically calculated and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-08-03 James H. Durant , Lucas Wilkins , Keith Butler , Joshaniel F. K. Cooper

This paper studies semiparametric Fisher information in models parametrized by general normed spaces. The main contribution is to establish that positive semiparametric Fisher information is equivalent to the gradient of the parameter of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Telmo Pérez-Izquierdo

Natural gradient descent is an optimization method traditionally motivated from the perspective of information geometry, and works well for many applications as an alternative to stochastic gradient descent. In this paper we critically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 James Martens

We study information matrices for statistical models by the $L^2$-Wasserstein metric. We call them Wasserstein information matrices (WIMs), which are analogs of classical Fisher information matrices. We introduce Wasserstein score functions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-08-12 Wuchen Li , Jiaxi Zhao

In this paper, a uniform (over some parameter space) moment bound for the inverse of Fisher's information matrix is established. This result is then applied to develop moment bounds for the normalized least squares estimate in (nonlinear)…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-11-22 Ngai Hang Chan , Ching-Kang Ing

We consider non-linear regression models corrupted by generic noise when the regression functions form a non-linear subspace of L^2, relevant in non-linear PDE inverse problems and data assimilation. We show that when the score of the model…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Dimitri Konen

The optimal phase estimation strategy is derived when partial a priori knowledge on the estimated phase is available. The structure of the optimal measurements, estimators and the optimal probe states is analyzed. The results fill the gap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

Although Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) scales as O(d^(1/4)) in dimension, there is a large constant factor determined by the curvature of the target density. This constant factor can be reduced in most cases through preconditioning, the…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-20 Adrian Seyboldt , Eliot L. Carlson , Bob Carpenter

A key quantity of interest in Bayesian inference are expectations of functions with respect to a posterior distribution. Markov Chain Monte Carlo is a fundamental tool to consistently compute these expectations via averaging samples drawn…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-10 Heiko Strathmann , Dino Sejdinovic , Mark Girolami