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The recent introduction of geometric partition entropy brought a new viewpoint to non-parametric entropy quantification that incorporated the impacts of informative outliers, but its original formulation was limited to the context of a…

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For any finite colored graph we define the empirical neighborhood measure, which counts the number of vertices of a given color connected to a given number of vertices of each color, and the empirical pair measure, which counts the number…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Kwabena Doku-Amponsah , Peter Mörters

We show that gamma distributions provide models for departures from randomness since every neighbourhood of an exponential distribution contains a neighbourhood of gamma distributions, using an information theoretic metric topology. We…

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We introduce diffusion geometry as a new framework for geometric and topological data analysis. Diffusion geometry uses the Bakry-Emery $\Gamma$-calculus of Markov diffusion operators to define objects from Riemannian geometry on a wide…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Iolo Jones

The relationship between micro-structure and macro-structure of complex systems using information geometry has been dealt by several authors. From this perspective, we are going to apply it as a geometrical structure connecting both…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-10-17 M. E. Kahil

Visual insights into a wide variety of statistical methods, for both didactic and data analytic purposes, can often be achieved through geometric diagrams and geometrically based statistical graphs. This paper extols and illustrates the…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-02-21 Michael Friendly , Georges Monette , John Fox

There are many open questions pertaining to the statistical analysis of random objects, which are increasingly encountered. A major challenge is the absence of linear operations in such spaces. A basic statistical task is to quantify…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-01 Wookyeong Song , Hans-Georg Müller

Local information objectivity, that local, independent observers can infer the same information about a model upon exchange of independently acquired experimental data, is fundamental to science. It is mathematically encoded via Cencov's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Per Berglund , Andrew Geraci , Tristan Hubsch , David Mattingly , Djordje Minic

In recent years, biodiversity measures have gained prominence as essential tools for ecological and environmental assessments, particularly in the context of increasingly complex and large-scale datasets. We provide a comprehensive review…

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In this paper, we show how information geometry, the natural geometry of discrete probability distributions, can be used to derive the quantum formalism. The derivation rests upon three elementary features of quantum phenomena, namely…

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The concept of dimension is essential to grasp the complexity of data. A naive approach to determine the dimension of a dataset is based on the number of attributes. More sophisticated methods derive a notion of intrinsic dimension (ID)…

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Information theory provides a mathematical foundation to measure uncertainty in belief. Belief is represented by a probability distribution that captures our understanding of an outcome's plausibility. Information measures based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Jed A. Duersch , Thomas A. Catanach

The internal representations learned by language models consistently exhibit striking geometric structure: calendar months organize into a circle, historical years form a smooth one-dimensional manifold, and cities' latitudes and longitudes…

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We revisit the geometrical meaning of statistical isotropy that is manifest in excursion sets of smooth random fields in two dimensions. Using the contour Minkowski tensor, $\W_1$, as our basic tool we first examine geometrical properties…

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In this dissertation, an abstract formalism extending information geometry is introduced. This framework encompasses a broad range of modelling problems, including possible applications in machine learning and in the information theoretical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Ben Anthonis

In this technical report, we will make two observations concerning symmetries of the probability distribution resulting from projection of a piece of p-dimensional data onto a random m-dimensional subspace of $\mathbb{R}^p$, where m < p. In…

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In many temporal datasets, the parameters of the underlying distribution may change abruptly at unknown times. Detecting such changepoints is crucial for numerous applications. Although such a problem has been extensively studied for linear…

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We study random graphs with latent geometric structure, where the probability of each edge depends on the underlying random positions corresponding to the two endpoints. We focus on the setting where this conditional probability is a…

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We study quantum statistical inference tasks of hypothesis testing and their canonical variations, in order to review relations between their corresponding figures of merit---measures of statistical distance---and demonstrate the crucial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Marcin Jarzyna , Jan Kolodynski

In information theory, the link between continuous information and discrete information is established through well-known sampling theorems. Sampling theory explains, for example, how frequency-filtered music signals are reconstructible…

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