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Entropy and information provide natural measures of correlation among elements in a network. We construct here the information theoretic analog of connected correlation functions: irreducible $N$--point correlation is measured by a decrease…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Elad Schneidman , Susanne Still , Michael J. Berry , William Bialek

Negative-free contrastive learning methods have attracted a lot of attention with simplicity and impressive performances for large-scale pretraining. However, its disentanglement property remains unexplored. In this paper, we examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Jinkun Cao , Ruiqian Nai , Qing Yang , Jialei Huang , Yang Gao

Stimulated by the need of describing useful notions related to information measures, we introduce the `pdf-related distributions'. These are defined in terms of transformation of absolutely continuous random variables through their own…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Antonio Di Crescenzo , Luca Paolillo , Alfonso Suarez-Llorens

Measures of dependence among variables, and measures of information content and shared information have become valuable tools of multi-variable data analysis. Information measures, like marginal entropies, mutual and multi-information, have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-02 David J. Galas , Nikita A. Sakhanenko , Benjamin Keller

Multivariate datasets are common in various real-world applications. Recently, copulas have received significant attention for modeling dependencies among random variables. A copula-based information measure is required to quantify the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-06 Mohd. Arshad , Swaroop Georgy Zachariah , Ashok Kumar Pathak

We review some recent developments which make use of the concept of `superstatistics', an effective description for nonequilibrium systems with a varying intensive parameter such as the inverse temperature. We describe how the asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Christian Beck

We propose a new estimator to measure directed dependencies in time series. The dimensionality of data is first reduced using a new non-uniform embedding technique, where the variables are ranked according to a weighted sum of the amount of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-02 Payam Shahsavari Baboukani , Carina Graversen , Emina Alickovic , Jan Østergaard

The extropy measure, introduced by Lad, Sanfilippo, and Agro in their (2015) paper in Statistical Science, has garnered significant interest over the past years. In this study, we present a novel representation for the weighted extropy…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Pradeep Kumar Sahu , Nitin Gupta

We study a class of nonlinear nonparametric inverse problems. Specifically, we propose a nonparametric estimator of the dynamics of a monotonically increasing trajectory defined on a finite time interval. Under suitable regularity…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Debashis Paul , Jie Peng , Prabir Burman

We employ the relative entropy as a measure to quantify the difference of eigenmodes between Hermitian and non-Hermitian systems in elliptic optical microcavities. We have found that the average value of the relative entropy in the range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-24 Kabgyun Jeong , Kyu-Won Park , Jaewan Kim

Spatially referenced data often have autocovariance functions with elliptical isolevel contours, a property known as geometric anisotropy. The anisotropy parameters include the tilt of the ellipse (orientation angle) with respect to a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Manolis P. Petrakis , Dionissios T. Hristopulos

Spectral risk measures are attractive risk measures as they allow the user to obtain risk measures that reflect their subjective risk-aversion. This paper examines spectral risk measures based on an exponential utility function, and finds…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2011-03-29 Kevin Dowd , John Cotter

This work belongs to the framework of inverse problems with linear model. The resolution of this type of problem consists in minimizing (possibly under constraints) a function of discrepancy between the measurements and a physical model of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Henri Lantéri

Time series similarity measures are highly relevant in a wide range of emerging applications including training machine learning models, classification, and predictive modeling. Standard similarity measures for time series most often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Lucas Cassiel Jacaruso

Stochastic contraction analysis is a recently developed tool for studying the global stability properties of nonlinear stochastic systems, based on a differential analysis of convergence in an appropriate metric. To date, stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Quang-Cuong Pham , Jean-Jacques Slotine

Information theoretic quantities are extremely useful in discovering relationships between two or more data sets. One popular method---particularly for continuous systems---for estimating these quantities is the nearest neighbour…

Computation · Statistics 2017-10-19 Joshua Brown , Terry Bossomaier , Lionel Barnett

Relative complexity measures the complexity of a probability preserving transformation relative to a factor being a sequence of random variables whose exponential growth rate is the relative entropy of the extension. We prove distributional…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Jon Aaronson

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

We obtain large deviation results for non-uniformly expanding maps with non-flat singularities or criticalities and for partially hyperbolic non-uniformly expanding attracting sets. That is, given a continuous function we consider its space…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-09-14 V Araujo , M J Pacifico