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Measurement-only models offer an ideal platform for exploring entanglement dynamics in the absence of unitary evolution. Despite extensive numerical evidence for entanglement phase transitions in measurement-only dynamics, the underlying…

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Permutation tests have been proposed by Albert et al. (2015) to detect dependence between point processes, modeling in particular spike trains, that is the time occurrences of action potentials emitted by neurons. Our present work focuses…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Josué Tchouanti , Éva Löcherbach , Patricia Reynaud-Bouret , Etienne Tanré

Linear mixed-effects models are widely used in analyzing clustered or repeated measures data. We propose a quasi-likelihood approach for estimation and inference of the unknown parameters in linear mixed-effects models with high-dimensional…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-10 Sai Li , Tony T. Cai , Hongzhe Li

Signal amplitude estimation and detection from unlabeled quantized binary samples are studied, assuming that the order of the time indexes is completely unknown. First, maximum likelihood (ML) estimators are utilized to estimate both the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Guanyu Wang , Jiang Zhu , Rick S. Blum , Peter Willett , Stefano Marano , Vincenzo Matta , Paolo Braca

Recognizing, quantifying and visualizing associations between two variables is increasingly important. This paper investigates how a new function-valued measure of dependence, the quantile dependence function, can be used to construct tests…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-16 Ćmiel Bogdan , Ledwina Teresa

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence between two variables, yet accurate estimation from finite data remains notoriously difficult. No estimator is universally reliable, and common approaches fail in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-02 Eslam Abdelaleem , K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

We consider testing marginal independence versus conditional independence in a trivariate Gaussian setting. The two models are non-nested and their intersection is a union of two marginal independences. We consider two sequences of such…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-23 F. Richard Guo , Thomas S. Richardson

The maximal information coefficient (MIC), which measures the amount of dependence between two variables, is able to detect both linear and non-linear associations. However, computational cost grows rapidly as a function of the dataset…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Ali Mousavi , Richard G. Baraniuk

Accurately estimating the proportion of true signals among a large number of variables is crucial for enhancing the precision and reliability of scientific research. Traditional signal proportion estimators often assume independence among…

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The framework of Partial Information Decomposition (PID) unveils complex nonlinear interactions in network systems by dissecting the mutual information (MI) between a target variable and several source variables. While PID measures have…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-09-23 Chiara Barà , Yuri Antonacci , Marta Iovino , Ivan Lazic , Luca Faes

This research creates a general class of "perturbation models" which are described by an underlying "null" model that accounts for most of the structure in data and a perturbation that accounts for possible small localized departures. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Ramani S. Pilla , Catherine Loader

This article proposes a new method to estimate an existing mutual information based dependence measure using histogram density estimates. Finding a suitable bin length for histogram is an open problem. We propose a new way of computing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Namita Jain , C. A. Murthy

Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) is a measure of conditional dependence between random variables X and Y, given another random variable Z. It can be used to quantify conditional dependence among variables in many data-driven inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Sudipto Mukherjee , Himanshu Asnani , Sreeram Kannan

Vibro-Acoustic Modulation method for detection and characterization of various structural and material flaws has been actively researched for the last two decades. Most of the studies focused on detection and monitoring of macro-cracks…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-02 Dimitri Donskoy , Dong Liu

A fundamental task in statistical learning is quantifying the joint dependence or association between two continuous random variables. We introduce a novel, fully non-parametric measure that assesses the degree of association between…

We propose a fully data-driven approach to designing mutual information (MI) estimators. Since any MI estimator is a function of the observed sample from two random variables, we parameterize this function with a neural network (MIST) and…

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We investigate the stabilisation of nominally linear-affine switched systems with uncertain Lipschitz nonlinearities under dwell-time constraints, using a sampled-data switching law based on a state observer. We design the switching law…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Rami Katz , Antonio Russo , Gian Paolo Incremona , Patrizio Colaneri , Giulia Giordano

We present a novel approach to the analysis of a full model of scalar modulation instability (MI) by means of a simple geometrical description in the power vs. frequency plane. This formulation allows to relate the shape of the MI gain to…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-20 S. M. Hernandez , P. I. Fierens , J. Bonetti , A. D. Sánchez , D. F. Grosz

We study mean-field Ising models whose coupling depends on the magnetization via a feedback function. We identify mixed phases (MPs) and show that they can be stable at zero temperature for sufficiently strong feedback. Moreover, stable MPs…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yi-Ping Ma , Ivan Sudakow , P. L. Krapivsky

The stationary statistical properties of independent, identically distributed (i.i.d.) input symbols provide insights on the induced nonlinear interference (NLI) during fiber transmission. For example, kurtosis is known to predict the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Kaiquan Wu , Gabriele Liga , Alireza Sheikh , Frans M. J. Willems , Alex Alvarado