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In this note we present a fully information theoretic approach to renormalization inspired by Bayesian statistical inference, which we refer to as Bayesian Renormalization. The main insight of Bayesian Renormalization is that the Fisher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-11 David S. Berman , Marc S. Klinger , Alexander G. Stapleton

We develop a unified framework for distributed inference, semantic communication, and exploration in spatial networks by integrating stochastic geometry with information geometry - a direction that has not been explored in prior literature.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Gourab Ghatak

We investigate the effect of different metrizations of probability spaces on the information geometric complexity of entropic motion on curved statistical manifolds. Specifically, we provide a comparative analysis based upon Riemannian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Steven Gassner , Carlo Cafaro

Random fields are mathematical structures used to model the spatial interaction of random variables along time, with applications ranging from statistical physics and thermodynamics to system's biology and the simulation of complex systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Alexandre L. M. Levada

In this paper, we analyze the impact of compressed sensing with complex random matrices on Fisher information and the Cram\'{e}r-Rao Bound (CRB) for estimating unknown parameters in the mean value function of a complex multivariate normal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Pooria Pakrooh , Ali Pezeshki , Louis L. Scharf , Douglas Cochran , Stephen D. Howard

The distance between two point light sources is difficult to estimate if that distance is below the diffraction (Rayleigh's) resolution limit of the imaging device. A recently proposed technique enhances the precision of this estimation by…

In this paper, we present a novel two-stage metric learning algorithm. We first map each learning instance to a probability distribution by computing its similarities to a set of fixed anchor points. Then, we define the distance in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Jun Wang , Ke Sun , Fei Sha , Stephane Marchand-Maillet , Alexandros Kalousis

The mean of an unknown variance-$\sigma^2$ distribution $f$ can be estimated from $n$ samples with variance $\frac{\sigma^2}{n}$ and nearly corresponding subgaussian rate. When $f$ is known up to translation, this can be improved…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Shivam Gupta , Jasper C. H. Lee , Eric Price

The Wasserstein distance is an attractive tool for data analysis but statistical inference is hindered by the lack of distributional limits. To overcome this obstacle, for probability measures supported on finitely many points, we derive…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-27 Max Sommerfeld , Axel Munk

Fisher's criterion is a widely used tool in machine learning for feature selection. For large search spaces, Fisher's criterion can provide a scalable solution to select features. A challenging limitation of Fisher's criterion, however, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ibrahim Alsolami , Tomoki Fukai

The dynamic formulation of optimal transport, also known as the Benamou-Brenier formulation, has been extended to the unbalanced case by introducing a source term in the continuity equation. When this source term is penalized based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Mao Nishino , Martin Bauer , Tom Needham , Nicolas Charon

This paper presents a unified computational framework for the estimation of distances, geodesics and barycenters of merge trees. We extend recent work on the edit distance [106] and introduce a new metric, called the Wasserstein distance…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Mathieu Pont , Jules Vidal , Julie Delon , Julien Tierny

The unavoidable interaction between a quantum system and the external noisy environment can be mimicked by a sequence of stochastic measurements whose outcomes are neglected. Here we investigate how this stochasticity is reflected in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Matthias M. Müller , Stefano Gherardini , Augusto Smerzi , Filippo Caruso

We design efficient distance approximation algorithms for several classes of structured high-dimensional distributions. Specifically, we show algorithms for the following problems: - Given sample access to two Bayesian networks $P_1$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Arnab Bhattacharyya , Sutanu Gayen , Kuldeep S. Meel , N. V. Vinodchandran

We address the following problem: given two smooth densities on a manifold, find an optimal diffeomorphism that transforms one density into the other. Our framework builds on connections between the Fisher-Rao information metric on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-05 Martin Bauer , Sarang Joshi , Klas Modin

Hilbert-Schmidt distance is one of the prominent distance measures in quantum information theory which finds applications in diverse problems, such as construction of entanglement witnesses, quantum algorithms in machine learning, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Santosh Kumar

Information theory is a powerful framework to capture aspects of dynamical systems with multiple degrees of freedom. Mathematically, the dynamics can be represented as a continuous curve $\mathcal{C}$ on a suitable hyperplane in flat space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mattia Carrino , Stefan Hohenegger

Natural Gradient Descent, a second-degree optimization method motivated by the information geometry, makes use of the Fisher Information Matrix instead of the Hessian which is typically used. However, in many cases, the Fisher Information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Rajesh Shrestha

Mimicking the maximum likelihood estimator, we construct first order Cramer-Rao efficient and explicitly computable estimators for the scale parameter $\sigma^2$ in the model $Z_{i,n}=\sigma n^{-\beta}X_i+Y_i,i=1,\ldots,n,\beta>0$ with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Till Sabel , Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

A closed-form expression for Wigner-Yanase skew information in mixed-state quantum systems is derived. It is shown that limit values of the mixing coefficients exist such that Wigner-Yanase information is equal to Helstrom information. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-04-22 Alessandra Luati