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In the analysis of any type of system, granting maximum information extraction from its data is non-trivial. Confidence in successful information extraction typically builds on prior knowledge of the studied system or on the user's…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-01-01 Matteo Becchi , Giovanni Maria Pavan

Across domains, metrics and measurements are fundamental to identifying challenges, informing decisions, and resolving conflicts. Despite the abundance of data available in this information age, not only can it be challenging for a single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Ti-Chung Cheng , Carmen Badea , Christian Bird , Thomas Zimmermann , Robert DeLine , Nicole Forsgren , Denae Ford

Complex systems are found in most branches of science. It is still argued how to best quantify their complexity and to what end. One prominent measure of complexity (the statistical complexity) has an operational meaning in terms of the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-10-24 Karoline Wiesner , Mile Gu , Elisabeth Rieper , Vlatko Vedral

In signal analysis and synthesis, linear approximation theory considers a linear decomposition of any given signal in a set of atoms, collected into a so-called dictionary. Relevant sparse representations are obtained by relaxing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Paul Honeine

Depth estimation is solved as a regression or classification problem in existing learning-based multi-view stereo methods. Although these two representations have recently demonstrated their excellent performance, they still have apparent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Rui Peng , Rongjie Wang , Zhenyu Wang , Yawen Lai , Ronggang Wang

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for complex-valued probability measures and explores their novel applications in information theory and statistical analysis. We define a complex probability measure as a phase-modulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Siang Cheng , Hejun Xu , Tianxiao Pang

We investigate the existence and properties of kink-like solitons in a class of models with two interacting scalar fields. In particular, we focus on models that display both double and single-kink solutions, treatable analytically using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-10 R. A. C. Correa , A. de Souza Dutra , M. Gleiser

Markov categories are a novel framework to describe and treat problems in probability and information theory. In this work we combine the categorical formalism with the traditional quantitative notions of entropy, mutual information, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Paolo Perrone

From a machine learning point of view, identifying a subset of relevant features from a real data set can be useful to improve the results achieved by classification methods and to reduce their time and space complexity. To achieve this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Pietro Cassara , Alessandro Rozza , Mirco Nanni

The random matrix ensembles (RME) of quantum statistical Hamiltonians, e.g. Gaussian random matrix ensembles (GRME) and Ginibre random matrix ensembles (Ginibre RME), are applied in literature to following quantum statistical systems:…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej M. Duras

Evaluating image generation models such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) is a challenging problem. A common approach is to compare the distributions of the set of ground truth images and the set of generated test images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Junghyuk Lee , Jong-Seok Lee

Uncertainty estimation in multi-LLM systems remains largely single-model-centric: existing methods quantify uncertainty within each model but do not adequately capture semantic disagreement across models. To address this gap, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kangkang Sun , Jun Wu , Jianhua Li , Minyi Guo , Xiuzhen Che , Jianwei Huang

We introduce an approach to bias deep generative models, such as GANs and diffusion models, towards generating data with either enhanced fidelity or increased diversity. Our approach involves manipulating the distribution of training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Shuangqi Li , Chen Liu , Tong Zhang , Hieu Le , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Entities are at the center of how we represent and aggregate knowledge. For instance, Encyclopedias such as Wikipedia are structured by entities (e.g., one per Wikipedia article). The ability to retrieve such entities given a query is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Nicola De Cao , Gautier Izacard , Sebastian Riedel , Fabio Petroni

Despite remarkable progress, image generation is far from solved. The dominant metric, FID, conflates sample fidelity with mode coverage and is close to being saturated. Yet a model can still exhibit mode collapse while achieving a low FID,…

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Current Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems predominantly rely on relevance-based dense retrieval, sequentially fetching documents to maximize semantic similarity with the query. However, in knowledge-intensive and real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Davide Di Gioia

We introduce a class of information measures based on group entropies, allowing us to describe the information-theoretical properties of complex systems. These entropic measures are nonadditive, and are mathematically deduced from a series…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-21 Piergiulio Tempesta , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

The matrix-based Renyi's \alpha-entropy functional and its multivariate extension were recently developed in terms of the normalized eigenspectrum of a Hermitian matrix of the projected data in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Shujian Yu , Kristoffer Wickstrøm , Robert Jenssen , Jose C. Principe

Mechanistic interpretability aims to break models into meaningful parts; verifying that two such parts implement the same computation is a prerequisite. Existing similarity measures evaluate either empirical behaviour, leaving them blind to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 ML Nissen Gonzalez , Melwina Albuquerque , Laurence Wroe , Jacob Meyer Cohen , Logan Riggs Smith , Thomas Dooms

Entropy has emerged as a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and widely accepted quantitative measure of uncertainty across different disciplines. A unified understanding of entropy measures, supported by a detailed review of their theoretical…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Naveen Kumar , Ambesh Dixit , Vivek Vijay