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Information geometry provides a tool to systematically investigate parameter sensitivity of the state of a system. If a physical system is described by a linear combination of eigenstates of a complex (that is, non-Hermitian) Hamiltonian,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Dorje C. Brody , Eva-Maria Graefe

Information geometric techniques and inductive inference methods hold great promise for solving computational problems of interest in classical and quantum physics, especially with regard to complexity characterization of dynamical systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. A. Ali , C. Cafaro , A. Giffin , D. -H. Kim

In many areas of applied mathematics, engineering, and social and natural sciences, decentralization of information is a key aspect determining how to approach a problem. In this review article, we study information structures in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Naci Saldi , Serdar Yuksel

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

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Shun-ichi Amari , Takeru Matsuda

While phases and phase transitions are conventionally described by local order parameters in real space, we present a unified framework characterizing the phase transition through the geometry of configuration space defined by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 Yu-Jing Liu , Wen-Yu Su , Yong-Feng Yang , Nvsen Ma , Chen Cheng

Higher-order shear statistics contain part of the non-Gaussian information of the projected matter field and therefore can provide additional constraints on the cosmological parameters when combined with second-order statistics. We aim to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Elena Silvestre-Rosello , Lucas Porth , Peter Schneider , Laila Linke , Jonas Krueger , Sebastian Grandis , Jonathan Oel

This paper is a strongly geometrical approach to the Fisher distance, which is a measure of dissimilarity between two probability distribution functions. The Fisher distance, as well as other divergence measures, are also used in many…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-01-13 Sueli I. R. Costa , Sandra A. Santos , João E. Strapasson

The fractal properties of models of randomly placed $n$-dimensional spheres ($n$=1,2,3) are studied using standard techniques for calculating fractal dimensions in empirical data (the box counting and Minkowski-sausage techniques). Using…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Daniel A. Hamburger , Ofer Biham , David Avnir

This paper presents a novel method for analyzing the latent space geometry of generative models, including statistical physics models and diffusion models, by reconstructing the Fisher information metric. The method approximates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Alexander Lobashev , Dmitry Guskov , Maria Larchenko , Mikhail Tamm

Information geometry and Wasserstein geometry are two main structures introduced in a manifold of probability distributions, and they capture its different characteristics. We study characteristics of Wasserstein geometry in the framework…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Shun-ichi Amari , Takeru Matsuda

We use a one-dimensional random walk on $D$-dimensional hyper-spheres to determine the critical behavior of statistical systems in hyper-spherical geometries. First, we demonstrate the properties of such a walk by studying the phase diagram…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Boettcher , M. Moshe

Standard diffusion models for graph generation typically rely on uniform time-stepping, an approach that overlooks the non-homogeneous dynamics of distributional evolution on complex manifolds. In this paper, we present an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-04 Yuhui Lu , Wenjing Liu , Kun Zhan

In this article, we present recent developments of information geometry, namely, geometry of the Fisher metric, dualistic structures and divergences on the space of probability measures, particularly the theory of geodesics of the Fisher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Mitsuhiro Itoh , Hiroyasu Satoh

Information geometry uses the formal tools of differential geometry to describe the space of probability distributions as a Riemannian manifold with an additional dual structure. The formal equivalence of compositional data with discrete…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Ionas Erb , Nihat Ay

Information geometry is the application of differential geometry in statistics, where the Fisher-Rao metric serves as the Riemannian metric on the statistical manifold, providing an intrinsic property for parameter sensitivity. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Wangjun Lu , Zhao-Hui Peng , HongTao

The Fisher-Rao metric from Information Geometry is related to phase transition phenomena in classical statistical mechanics. Several studies propose to extend the use of Information Geometry to study more general phase transitions in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Omri Har Shemesh , Rick Quax , Alfons G. Hoekstra , Peter M. A. Sloot

This note corrects a technical error in Guardiola (2020, Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications), presents updated derivations, and offers an extended discussion of the properties of the spherical Dirichlet distribution.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-06 Jose H Guardiola

This work studies the chord length distribution, in the case where both ends lie on a $N$-dimensional hypersphere ($N \geq 2$). Actually, after connecting this distribution to the recently estimated surface of a hyperspherical cap…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Panagiotis Sidiropoulos

Score-based diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable empirical success in learning high-dimensional distributions, particularly those exhibiting low-dimensional and multi-modal structures. However, theoretical understanding of their…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Jingda Wu , Changxiao Cai

Random fields are useful mathematical objects in the characterization of non-deterministic complex systems. A fundamental issue in the evolution of dynamical systems is how intrinsic properties of such structures change in time. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Alexandre L. M. Levada