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We introduce the information geometry module of the Python package Geomstats. The module first implements Fisher-Rao Riemannian manifolds of widely used parametric families of probability distributions, such as normal, gamma, beta,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Alice Le Brigant , Jules Deschamps , Antoine Collas , Nina Miolane

Choosing the Fisher information as the metric tensor for a Riemannian manifold provides a powerful yet fundamental way to understand statistical distribution families. Distances along this manifold become a compelling measure of statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Brodie A. J. Lawson , Kevin Burrage , Kerrie Mengersen , Rodrigo Weber dos Santos

The Fisher-Rao distance between two probability distributions of a statistical model is defined as the Riemannian geodesic distance induced by the Fisher information metric. In order to calculate the Fisher-Rao distance in closed-form, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Frank Nielsen

The Fisher-Rao distance is the geodesic distance between probability distributions in a statistical manifold equipped with the Fisher metric, which is a natural choice of Riemannian metric on such manifolds. It has recently been applied to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Fábio C. C. Meneghetti , Julianna Pinele , Sueli I. R. Costa

A new Riemannian geometry for the Compound Gaussian distribution is proposed. In particular, the Fisher information metric is obtained, along with corresponding geodesics and distance function. This new geometry is applied on a change…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-21 Florent Bouchard , Ammar Mian , Jialun Zhou , Salem Said , Guillaume Ginolhac , Yannick Berthoumieu

Information geometry is the application of differential geometry in statistics, where the Fisher-Rao metric serves as the Riemannian metric on the statistical manifold, providing an intrinsic property for parameter sensitivity. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Wangjun Lu , Zhao-Hui Peng , HongTao

Statistical inference more often than not involves models which are non-linear in the parameters thus leading to non-Gaussian posteriors. Many computational and analytical tools exist that can deal with non-Gaussian distributions, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Eileen Giesel , Robert Reischke , Björn Malte Schäfer , Dominic Chia

The Fisher's information metric is introduced in order to find the real meaning of the probability distribution in classical and quantum systems described by Riemaniann non-degenerated superspaces. In particular, the physical r\^{o}le…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-04 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo , Victor I. Afonso

In information geometry, statistical models are considered as differentiable manifolds, where each probability distribution represents a unique point on the manifold. A Riemannian metric can be systematically obtained from a divergence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Satyajit Dhadumia , M. Ashok Kumar

Variance and Fisher information are ingredients of the Cramer-Rao inequality. We regard Fisher information as a Riemannian metric on a quantum statistical manifold and choose monotonicity under coarse graining as the fundamental property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Denes Petz

Data sets of multivariate normal distributions abound in many scientific areas like diffusion tensor imaging, structure tensor computer vision, radar signal processing, machine learning, just to name a few. In order to process those normal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Frank Nielsen

In this paper, we study the geometry induced by the Fisher-Rao metric on the parameter space of Dirichlet distributions. We show that this space is geodesically complete and has everywhere negative sectional curvature. An important…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-20 Alice Le Brigant , Stephen Preston , Stéphane Puechmorel

This paper proposes an original Riemmanian geometry for low-rank structured elliptical models, i.e., when samples are elliptically distributed with a covariance matrix that has a low-rank plus identity structure. The considered geometry is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Florent Bouchard , Arnaud Breloy , Guillaume Ginolhac , Alexandre Renaux , Frédéric Pascal

The manifold of empirical mean values of statistical data ad infinitum has a geometric shape that depends on the probability measure that governs the generating model. Large deviation theory produces entropy functions that depend on both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Viswa Virinchi Muppirala , Hong Qian

The Fisher-Rao geodesic distance on the statistical manifold consisting of zero-mean p-dimensional multivariate Gaussians appears without proof in several places (such as Steven Smith's "Covariance, Subspace, and Intrinsic Cramer-Rao…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Joseph Wells , Mary Cook , Karleigh Pine , Benjamin D. Robinson

In this paper we consider the space of those probability distributions which maximize the $q$-R\'enyi entropy. These distributions have the same parameter space for every $q$, and in the $q=1$ case these are the normal distributions. Some…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-24 Attila Andai

The Fisher-Rao metric from Information Geometry is related to phase transition phenomena in classical statistical mechanics. Several studies propose to extend the use of Information Geometry to study more general phase transitions in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Omri Har Shemesh , Rick Quax , Alfons G. Hoekstra , Peter M. A. Sloot

This paper studies the Fisher-Rao geometry on the parameter space of beta distributions. We derive the geodesic equations and the sectional curvature, and prove that it is negative. This leads to uniqueness for the Riemannian centroid in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Alice Le Brigant , Stéphane Puechmorel

Being infinite dimensional, non-parametric information geometry has long faced an "intractability barrier" due to the fact that the Fisher-Rao metric is now a functional incurring difficulties in defining its inverse. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-08 Bing Cheng , Howell Tong

Wasserstein geometry and information geometry are two important structures introduced in a manifold of probability distributions. The former is defined by using the transportation cost between two distributions, so it reflects the metric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Shun-ichi Amari
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