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Many inverse problems in nuclear fusion and high-energy astrophysics research, such as the optimization of tokamak reactor geometries or the inference of black hole parameters from interferometric images, necessitate high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Jonathan Gorard , Ammar Hakim , Hong Qin , Kyle Parfrey , Shantenu Jha

In this paper we analyze the maximum entropy image deconvolution. We show that given the Lagrange multiplier a closed form can be obtained for the image parameters. Using this solution we are able to provide better understanding of some of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Amir Leshem

The Principle of Maximum Entropy, a powerful and general method for inferring the distribution function given a set of constraints, is applied to deduce the overall distribution of 3D plasmoids (flux ropes/tubes) for systems where resistive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-22 Manasvi Lingam , Luca Comisso

Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) offer flexible, non-autoregressive generation, but this freedom introduces a challenge: final output quality is highly sensitive to the decoding order. We are the first to formalize this issue, attributing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Ziyu Chen , Xinbei Jiang , Peng Sun , Tao Lin

We show that a simple geometric result suffices to derive the form of the optimal solution in a large class of finite and infinite-dimensional maximum entropy problems concerning probability distributions, spectral densities and covariance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-24 Michele Pavon , Augusto Ferrante

One of the most demanding calculations is to generate random samples from a specified probability distribution (usually with an unknown normalizing prefactor) in a high-dimensional configuration space. One often has to resort to using a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Youhan Fang , Jesus-Maria Sanz-Serna , Robert D. Skeel

The simple entropic method to statistical reconstructing of heterogeneous three-dimensional media from a single two-dimensional image is briefly reported. We apply the entropic descriptor quantifying spatial inhomogeneity that depends on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-18 D. Frączek , W. Olchawa , R. Piasecki , R. Wiśniowski

We present a method for computing the topological entropy of one-dimensional maps. As an approximation scheme, the algorithm converges rapidly and provides both upper and lower bounds.

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 N. J. Balmforth , E. A. Spiegel , C. Tresser

Maximum entropy models provide the least constrained probability distributions that reproduce statistical properties of experimental datasets. In this work we characterize the learning dynamics that maximizes the log-likelihood in the case…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-09-21 Ulisse Ferrari

Many problems in the physical sciences, machine learning, and statistical inference necessitate sampling from a high-dimensional, multi-modal probability distribution. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms, the ubiquitous tool for this…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-05-12 Marylou Gabrié , Grant M. Rotskoff , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Hierarchical structures, which include multiple levels, are prevalent in statistical and machine-learning models as well as physical systems. Extending the foundational result that the maximum entropy distribution under mean constraints is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Amir R. Asadi

We propose a new beam diagnostics method to reconstruct the phase space of charged particle bunches in 5 dimensions, which consist of the horizontal and vertical positions and divergences as well as the time axis. This is achieved by…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 S. Jaster-Merz , R. W. Assmann , R. Brinkmann , F. Burkart , W. Hillert , M. Stanitzki , T. Vinatier

Particle discretizations of partial differential equations are advantageous for high-dimensional kinetic models in phase space due to their better scalability than continuum approaches with respect to dimension. Complex processes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Mark F. Adams , Daniel S. Finn , Matthew G. Knepley , Joseph V. Pusztay

Next-generation accelerator concepts which hinge on the precise shaping of beam distributions, demand equally precise diagnostic methods capable of reconstructing beam distributions within 6-dimensional position-momentum spaces. However,…

Configuration Optimization Problems (COPs), which involve minimizing a loss function over a set of discrete points $\boldsymbol{\gamma} \subset P$, are common in areas like Model Order Reduction, Active Learning, and Optimal Experimental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-24 Evie Nielen , Oliver Tse , Karen Veroy

We have developed a technique to map the three-dimensional structure of the local interstellar medium using a maximum entropy reconstruction technique. A set of column densities N to stars of known distance can in principle be used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John S. Arabadjis , Joel N. Bregman

Maximum Entropy is an image reconstruction method conceived to image a sparsely occupied field of view and therefore particularly appropriate to achieve super-resolution effects. Although widely used in image deconvolution, this method has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Paolo Massa , Richard Schwartz , A Kim Tolbert , Anna Maria Massone , Brian R Dennis , Michele Piana , Federico Benvenuto

To quantify the complexity of a system, entropy-based methods have received considerable critical attentions in real-world data analysis. Among numerous entropy algorithms, amplitude-based formulas, represented by Sample Entropy, suffer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-12 Hongjian Xiao , Danilo P. Mandic

Ptychography is a well-studied phase imaging method that makes non-invasive imaging possible at a nanometer scale. It has developed into a mainstream technique with various applications across a range of areas such as material science or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Semih Barutcu , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos , Doğa Gürsoy

Scientific and engineering processes deliver massive high-dimensional data sets that are generated as non-linear transformations of an initial state and few process parameters. Mapping such data to a low-dimensional manifold facilitates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-07 Frank Schoeneman , Varun Chandola , Nils Napp , Olga Wodo , Jaroslaw Zola