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We consider information retrieval when the data, for instance multimedia, is coputationally expensive to fetch. Our approach uses "information filters" to considerably narrow the universe of possiblities before retrieval. We are especially…

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The energy cost of computation has emerged as a central challenge at the intersection of physics and computer science. Recent advances in statistical physics -- particularly in stochastic thermodynamics -- enable precise characterizations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-07 Jinghao Lyu , Kyle J. Ray , James P. Crutchfield

Notwithstanding various attempts to construct a Partial Information Decomposition (PID) for multiple variables by defining synergistic, redundant, and unique information, there is no consensus on how one ought to precisely define either of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-06-07 Steven J. van Enk

Understanding and optimizing passive scalar mixing in a diffusive fluid flow at finite P\'eclet number $Pe=U h/\kappa$ (where $U$ and $h$ are characteristic velocity and length scales, and $\kappa$ is the molecular diffusivisity of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Conor Heffernan , Colm-cille Caulfield

We present a priori error analysis for a fully discrete, parallelizable, explicit loosely coupled scheme for the time-dependent Stokes-Biot problem. The method decouples the fluid and poroelastic subproblems in a fully explicit fashion,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Yifan Wang , Jeonghun Lee , Suncica Canic

We introduce a family of hybrid discretisations for the numerical approximation of optimal control problems governed by the equations of immiscible displacement in porous media. The proposed schemes are based on mixed and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-02 S. Kumar , R. Ruiz Baier , R. Sandilya

The efficiency of traffic routing on complex networks can be reflected by two key measurements i.e. the system capacity and the average data packets travel time. In this paper, we propose a mixing routing strategy by integrating local…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Wen-Xu Wang , Chuan-Yang Yin , Gang Yan , Bing-Hong Wang

Exponential models of distributions are widely used in machine learning for classiffication and modelling. It is well known that they can be interpreted as maximum entropy models under empirical expectation constraints. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Amir Globerson , Naftali Tishby

This paper is concerned with an initial and boundary value problem of the one-dimensional planar MHD equations for viscous, heat-conducting, compressible, ideal polytropic fluids with constant transport coefficients and large data. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Xia Ye , Jianwen Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new measure for the freshness of information, which uses the mutual information between the real-time source value and the delivered samples at the receiver to quantify the freshness of the information contained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yin Sun , Benjamin Cyr

We extend stochastic network optimization theory to treat networks with arbitrary sample paths for arrivals, channels, and mobility. The network can experience unexpected link or node failures, traffic bursts, and topology changes, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-07 Michael J. Neely

Information velocity (IV) is a recently proposed notion to capture the speed of reliable information dissemination over a large-scale network. It is the speed at which reliable end-to-end communication over $k$ hops can be achieved within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kai-Chun Chen , I-Hsiang Wang

Efficient information processing is crucial for both living organisms and engineered systems. The mutual information rate, a core concept of information theory, quantifies the amount of information shared between the trajectories of input…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-01 Manuel Reinhardt , Age J. Tjalma , Anne-Lena Moor , Christoph Zechner , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Optimization is an important module of modern machine learning applications. Tremendous efforts have been made to accelerate optimization algorithms. A common formulation is achieving a lower loss at a given time. This enables a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Zhonglin Xie , Yiman Fong , Haoran Yuan , Zaiwen Wen

We study the approach towards equilibrium in a dynamic Ising model, the Q2R cellular automaton, with microscopic reversibility and conserved energy for an infinite one-dimensional system. Starting from a low-entropy state with positive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Kristian Lindgren , Eckehard Olbrich

In a dilute non-Brownian suspension undergoing simple shear, pairwise hydrodynamic interactions are fore-aft symmetric at zero Reynolds number and produce no net cross-streamline displacement. A weak central repulsive force between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-31 Anu V S Nath , Pijush Patra , Anubhab Roy

We consider the estimation of a n-dimensional vector x from the knowledge of noisy and possibility non-linear element-wise measurements of xxT , a very generic problem that contains, e.g. stochastic 2-block model, submatrix localization or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Florent Krzakala , Jiaming Xu , Lenka Zdeborová

The development of sophisticated experimental means to control nanoscale systems has motivated efforts to design driving protocols which minimize the energy dissipated to the environment. Computational models are a crucial tool in this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Todd R. Gingrich , Grant M. Rotskoff , Gavin E. Crooks , Phillip L. Geissler

In this paper we propose a Bayesian, information theoretic approach to dimensionality reduction. The approach is formulated as a variational principle on mutual information, and seamlessly addresses the notions of sufficiency, relevance,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 David R. Wolf , Edward I. George

This paper proposes a distributed optimization algorithm with a convergence time that can be assigned in advance according to task requirements. To this end, a sliding manifold is introduced to achieve the sum of local gradients approaching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Renyongkang Zhang , Ge Guo , Zeng-di Zhou