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The entropy is a measure of uncertainty that plays a central role in information theory. When the distribution of the data is unknown, an estimate of the entropy needs be obtained from the data sample itself. We propose a semi-parametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-06 Stéphane Robin , Luca Scrucca

We extend beyond the Euler scales the hydrodynamic theory for quantum and classical integrable models developed in recent years, accounting for diffusive dynamics and local entropy production. We review how the diffusive scale can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Jacopo De Nardis , Denis Bernard , Benjamin Doyon

Mixing a passive scalar field by stirring can be measured in a variety of ways including tracer particle dispersion, via the flux-gradient relationship, or by suppression of scalar concentration variations in the presence of inhomogeneous…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-08 Zhi Lin , Katarína Bodová , Charles R. Doering

The concept of entropy rate for a dynamical process on a graph is introduced. We study diffusion processes where the node degrees are used as a local information by the random walkers. We describe analitically and numerically how the degree…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Vito Latora

Configurational entropy is an important factor in the free energy change of many macromolecular recognition and binding processes, and has been intensively studied. Despite great progresses that have been made, the global sampling remains…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Wenzhao Li , Kai Wang , Suyan Tian , Pu Tian

Diffusion coefficients are essential microphysics input for modeling white dwarf evolution, as they impact phase separation at crystallization and sedimentary heat sources. Present schemes for computing diffusion coefficients are accurate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 M. E. Caplan , E. B. Bauer , I. F. Freeman

Coarse-grained (CG) models facilitate an efficient exploration of complex systems by reducing the unnecessary degrees of freedom of the fine-grained (FG) system while recapitulating major structural correlations. Unlike structural…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Jaehyeok Jin , Kenneth S. Schweizer , Gregory A. Voth

We introduce and validate a finite-size two-body excess entropy integral equation. By using analytical arguments and computer simulations of prototypical simple liquids, we show that the excess entropy $s_2$ exhibits a finite-size scaling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-07 Mauricio Sevilla , Atreyee Banerjee , Robinson Cortes-Huerto

The profile of a sample is the multiset of its symbol frequencies. We show that for samples of discrete distributions, profile entropy is a fundamental measure unifying the concepts of estimation, inference, and compression. Specifically,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Yi Hao , Alon Orlitsky

Given the variety of the visual world there is not one true scale for recognition: objects may appear at drastically different sizes across the visual field. Rather than enumerate variations across filter channels or pyramid levels, dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Dequan Wang , Evan Shelhamer , Bruno Olshausen , Trevor Darrell

Enhanced diffusion, which describes the accelerated spread of passive scalars due to the interaction between advection and molecular diffusion, has been extensively studied in simplified geometries, such as uniform shear and radial flows.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Rômulo Damasclin Chaves dos Santos , Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Sales

Internal energy, enthalpy and entropy are the key quantities to study thermodynamic properties of the moist atmosphere, because they correspond to the First (internal energy and enthalpy) and Second (entropy) Laws of thermodynamics. The aim…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Pascal Marquet , Jean-François Geleyn

This work explores entropy analysis as a tool for probing information distribution within Transformer-based architectures. By quantifying token-level uncertainty and examining entropy patterns across different stages of processing, we aim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Amedeo Buonanno , Alessandro Rivetti , Francesco A. N. Palmieri , Giovanni Di Gennaro , Gianmarco Romano

Understanding the structural complexity and predictability of complex networks is a central challenge in network science. Although recent studies have revealed a relationship between compression-based entropy and link prediction…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sebastián Brzovic , Cristóbal Rojas , Andrés Abeliuk

We study a two-point flux approximation finite volume scheme for a cross-diffusion system. The scheme is shown to preserve the key properties of the continuous systems, among which the decay of the entropy. The convergence of the scheme is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Clément Cancès , Benoît Gaudeul

In this study we apply the maximum entropy principle to derive the properly scaled velocity distribution function of Boltzmann equations for mixtures, which leads to a non-isothermal Maxwell-Stefan diffusion model. We also analyze the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Benjamin Anwasia , Srboljub Simić

We propose a computational method to measure the configurational entropy in generic polydisperse glass-formers. In particular, our method resolves issues related to the diverging mixing entropy term due to a continuous polydispersity. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-09 Misaki Ozawa , Giorgio Parisi , Ludovic Berthier

The ability to quantify the directional flow of information is vital to understanding natural systems and designing engineered information-processing systems. A widely used measure to quantify this information flow is the transfer entropy.…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-11 Avishek Das , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

In this work, we outline the entropy viscosity method and discuss how the choice of scaling influences the size of viscosity for a simple shock problem. We present examples to illustrate the performance of the entropy viscosity method under…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Adeline Kornelus , Daniel Appelö

The thermodynamic definition of entropy can be extended to nonequilibrium systems based on its relation to information. To apply this definition in practice requires access to the physical system's microstates, which may be prohibitively…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-21 Gil Ariel , Haim Diamant