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We study the scalar curvature of the Fisher information metric on the microscopic coupling-parameter manifold of lattice spin models at criticality. For a $d$-dimensional lattice with periodic boundary conditions and $n = L^d$ sites, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Max Zhuravlev

A random Gaussian density field contains a fixed amount of Fisher information on the amplitude of its power spectrum. For a given smoothing scale, however, that information is not evenly distributed throughout the smoothed field. We…

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Diffusion models have become a leading framework in generative modeling, yet their theoretical understanding -- especially for high-dimensional data concentrated on low-dimensional structures -- remains incomplete. This paper investigates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zixuan Zhang , Kaixuan Huang , Tuo Zhao , Mengdi Wang , Minshuo Chen

Variance and Fisher information are ingredients of the Cramer-Rao inequality. We regard Fisher information as a Riemannian metric on a quantum statistical manifold and choose monotonicity under coarse graining as the fundamental property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Denes Petz

The introduction of a metric onto the space of parameters in models in Statistical Mechanics and beyond gives an alternative perspective on their phase structure. In such a geometrization, the scalar curvature, R, plays a central role. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Janke , D. A. Johnston , R. Kenna

Wasserstein geometry and information geometry are two important structures introduced in a manifold of probability distributions. The former is defined by using the transportation cost between two distributions, so it reflects the metric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Shun-ichi Amari

Statistical data depth plays an important role in the analysis of multivariate data sets. The main outcome is a center-outward ordering of the observations that can be used both to highlight features of the underlying distribution of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Giacomo Francisci , Claudio Agostinelli

Motivated by previous observations that geometrizing statistical mechanics offers an interesting alternative to more standard approaches,we have recently calculated the curvature (the fundamental object in this approach) of the information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Janke , D. A. Johnston , R. Kenna

Fisher Information (FI) is a quantity ubiquitously measured in such varied areas like metrology, machine learning, and biological complexity. Mathematically, it represents a lower bound in the variance of unknown parameters that are related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-21 Pedro B. Melo , Sílvio M. Duarte Queirós , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , Welles A. M. Morgado

A number of recent studies have estimated the inter-galactic void probability function and investigated its departure from various random models. We study a family of parametric statistical models based on gamma distributions, which do give…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-27 C. T. J. Dodson

We investigate the structural foundations of statistical efficiency under $\alpha$-local differential privacy, with a focus on maximizing Fisher information. Building on the role of continuous staircase mechanisms, we identify a fundamental…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Chiara Amorino , Arnaud Gloter

A model in statistical mechanics, characterised by the corresponding Gibbs measure, is a subset of the totality of probability distributions on the phase space. The shape of this subset, i.e., the geometry, then plays an important role in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Brody , A. Ritz

We investigate the effect of different metrizations of probability spaces on the information geometric complexity of entropic motion on curved statistical manifolds. Specifically, we provide a comparative analysis based upon Riemannian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Steven Gassner , Carlo Cafaro

A statistical model M is a family of probability distributions, characterised by a set of continuous parameters known as the parameter space. This possesses natural geometrical properties induced by the embedding of the family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

In this work some advances in the theory of curvature of two-dimensional probability manifolds corresponding to families of distributions are proposed. It is proved that location-scale distributions are hyperbolic in the Information…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Giuseppe Giacopelli , Andrea De Gaetano

Modeling observations as random distributions embedded within Wasserstein spaces is becoming increasingly popular across scientific fields, as it captures the variability and geometric structure of the data more effectively. However, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 François Bachoc , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Yisha Yao

In this paper optimal designs for regression problems with spherical predictors of arbitrary dimension are considered. Our work is motivated by applications in material sciences, where crystallographic textures such as the missorientation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Holger Dette , Maria Konstantinou , Kirsten Schorning , Josua Gösmann

We consider a system with a discrete configuration space. We show that the geometrical structures associated with such a system provide the tools necessary for a reconstruction of discrete quantum mechanics once dynamics is brought into the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Marcel Reginatto , Michael J. W. Hall

Statistical neurodynamics studies macroscopic behaviors of randomly connected neural networks. We consider a deep layered feedforward network where input signals are processed layer by layer. The manifold of input signals is embedded in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-08-23 Shun-ichi Amari , Ryo Karakida , Masafumi Oizumi

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