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Built on our observation that entangling surfaces of the boundary field theory are great co-dimension one spheres in the context of DS/dS correspondence, we study some information theoretic quantities of the field theory dual intensively…

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We numerically determine the entropy for heat-conducting states, which is connected to the so-called excess heat considered as a basic quantity for steady-state thermodynamics in nonequilibrium. We adopt an efficient method to estimate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-17 Yoshiyuki Chiba , Naoko Nakagawa

Estimating the entropy of a discrete random variable is a fundamental problem in information theory and related fields. This problem has many applications in various domains, including machine learning, statistics and data compression. Over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yuval Shalev , Amichai Painsky , Irad Ben-Gal

Traditional entropy-based methods - such as cross-entropy loss in classification problems - have long been essential tools for representing the information uncertainty and physical disorder in data and for developing artificial intelligence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shun Wang , Shun-Li Shang , Zi-Kui Liu , Wenrui Hao

Edge inference (EI) has emerged as a promising paradigm to address the growing limitations of cloud-based Deep Neural Network (DNN) inference services, such as high response latency, limited scalability, and severe data privacy exposure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhipeng Cheng , Xiaoyu Xia , Hong Wang , Minghui Liwang , Ning Chen , Xuwei Fan , Xianbin Wang

This is a review on entropy in various fields of mathematics and science. Its scope is to convey a unified vision of the classical as well as some newer entropy notions to a broad audience with an intermediate background in dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-08 José M. Amigó , Karsten Keller , Valentina Unakafova

The problem of the insensitivity of the macroscopic behavior of any thermodynamical system to partitioning generates a bias between the reproducibility of its macroscopic behavior viewed as the simplest form of causality and its long-term…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria K. Koleva

Entropic Dynamics (ED) is a framework in which Quantum Mechanics is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. In ED the dynamics of the probability distribution is driven by entropy subject to constraints that are codified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 Ariel Caticha

Efficiently solving NP-complete problems-such as protein structure prediction, cryptographic decryption, and vulnerability detection-remains a central challenge in computer science. Traditional electronic computers, constrained by the…

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In many science and engineering settings, system dynamics are characterized by governing PDEs, and a major challenge is to solve inverse problems (IPs) where unknown PDE parameters are inferred based on observational data gathered under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Apivich Hemachandra , Gregory Kang Ruey Lau , See-Kiong Ng , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Analytic continuation of numerical data obtained in imaginary time or frequency has become an essential part of many branches of quantum computational physics. It is, however, an ill-conditioned procedure and thus a hard numerical problem.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-18 Dominic Bergeron , A. -M. S. Tremblay

We introduce hardness in relative entropy, a new notion of hardness for search problems which on the one hand is satisfied by all one-way functions and on the other hand implies both next-block pseudoentropy and inaccessible entropy, two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Rohit Agrawal , Yi-Hsiu Chen , Thibaut Horel , Salil Vadhan

Measuring the complexity of high-dimensional data in physical systems becomes a critical factor in determining the information and quality of the systems. However, traditional metrics, such as Lyapunov exponent, fractal dimension, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-03 Seong-Gyun Im , Taewoo Kang , S. Joon Kwon

We study entropy-bounded computational geometry, that is, geometric algorithms whose running times depend on a given measure of the input entropy. Specifically, we introduce a measure that we call range-partition entropy, which unifies and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-29 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Abraham M. Illickan , Claire A. To

Transfer entropy (TE) captures the directed relationships between two variables. Partial transfer entropy (PTE) accounts for the presence of all confounding variables of a multivariate system and infers only about direct causality. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-03 Angeliki Papana , Ariadni Papana-Dagiasis , Elsa Siggiridou

A central task in analyzing complex dynamics is to determine the loci of information storage and the communication topology of information flows within a system. Over the last decade and a half, diagnostics for the latter have come to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-20 Ryan G. James , Nix Barnett , James P. Crutchfield

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are neural networks (NNs) that directly encode model equations, like Partial Differential Equations (PDEs), in the network itself. While most of the PINN algorithms in the literature minimize the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Marco Baldan , Paolo Di Barba

Thermodynamic computing exploits fluctuations and dissipation in physical systems to efficiently solve various mathematical problems. For example, it was recently shown that certain linear algebra problems can be solved thermodynamically,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-08 Samuel Duffield , Maxwell Aifer , Gavin Crooks , Thomas Ahle , Patrick J. Coles

For many fundamental problems in computational topology, such as unknot recognition and $3$-sphere recognition, the existence of a polynomial-time solution remains unknown. A major algorithmic tool behind some of the best known algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Benjamin A. Burton , Alexander He

The promise of chemical computation lies in controlling systems incompatible with traditional electronic micro-controllers, with applications in synthetic biology and nano-scale manufacturing. Computation is typically embedded in…

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