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Quantum Fisher information is a central quantity in quantum metrology. We discuss an alternative representation of quantum Fisher information for unitary parametrization processes. The highlight of this representation is that all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-25 Jing Liu , Xiaoxing Jing , Xiaoguang Wang

The demand for precision predictions in the field of high energy physics has dramatically increased over recent years. Experiments conducted at the LHC, as well as precision measurements at the intensity frontier such as Belle II require…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Marvin Gerlach , Florian Herren , Martin Lang

The problem how to approximately determine the absolute value of the Fisher information measure for a general parametric probabilistic system is considered. Having available the first and second moment of the system output in a parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Manuel Stein , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

The Fisher information matrix (FM) plays an important role in forecasts and inferences in many areas of physics. While giving fast parameter estimation with the Gaussian likelihood approximation in the parameter space, the FM can only give…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Ziming Wang , Chang Liu , Junjie Zhao , Lijing Shao

Gravitational-wave astronomy seeks to extract information about astrophysical systems from the gravitational-wave signals they emit. For coalescing compact-binary sources this requires accurate model templates for the inspiral and,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-24 Ilya Mandel , Christopher P L Berry , Frank Ohme , Stephen Fairhurst , Will M Farr

The Fisher information matrix of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation power spectrum coefficients is a fundamental quantity that specifies the information content of a CMB experiment. In the most general case, its exact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-30 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Many functions encountered in applied mathematics and in statistical data analysis can be expressed in terms of perspective functions. One of the earliest examples is the Fisher information, which appeared in statistics in the 1920s. We…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Patrick L. Combettes

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure, which depends both on the expansion rate of the Universe and our theory of gravity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Martin White , Yong-Seon Song , Will J. Percival

Discrete events alter how parameter influence propagates in hybrid systems. Prevailing Fisher information formulations assume that sensitivities evolve smoothly according to continuous-time variational equations and therefore neglect the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Bukunmi G. Odunlami , Marcos Netto , Hai Lin

With the volume and availability of astronomical data growing rapidly, astronomers will soon rely on the use of machine learning algorithms in their daily work. This proceeding aims to give an overview of what machine learning is and delve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 Sara A. Webb , Simon R. Goode

In this review, we present some advanced algorithms and programs used in our scientific school with short description of types of astrophysical systems, which we study. However, we discuss mainly mathematical methods, which may be applied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ivan L. Andronov , Vitalii V. Breus , Larysa S. Kudashkina

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) plays an important role in the analysis of parameter inference and system design problems. In a number of cases, however, the statistical data distribution and its associated information matrix are either…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

Preconditioning with the quantum Fisher information matrix (QFIM) is a popular approach in quantum variational algorithms. Yet the QFIM is costly to obtain directly, usually requiring more state preparation than its classical counterpart:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Jianfeng Lu , Kecen Sha

Fisher Information is a key notion in the whole field of quantum metrology. It allows for a direct quantification of maximal achievable precision of estimation of parameters encoded in quantum states using the most general quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Stanislaw Kurdzialek , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

We show how to verify the metrological usefulness of quantum states based on the expectation values of an arbitrarily chosen set of observables. In particular, we estimate the quantum Fisher information as a figure of merit of metrological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Iagoba Apellaniz , Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne , Geza Toth

The quantum Fisher information matrix provides us with a tool to determine the precision, in any multiparametric estimation protocol, through quantum Cram\'er-Rao bound. In this work, we study simultaneous and individual estimation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 L. Bakmou , A. Slaoui , M. Daoud , R. Ahl Laamara

We present a review of data types and statistical methods often encountered in astronomy. The aim is to provide an introduction to statistical applications in astronomy for statisticians and computer scientists. We highlight the complex,…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-10-23 James P. Long , Rafael S. de Souza

Throughout the processing and analysis of survey data, a ubiquitous issue nowadays is that we are spoilt for choice when we need to select a methodology for some of its steps. The alternative methods usually fail and excel in different data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Maria Süveges , Sotiria Fotopoulou , Jean Coupon , Stéphane Paltani , Laurent Eyer , Lorenzo Rimoldini

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is a foundational concept in statistical signal processing. The FIM depends on the probability distribution, assumed to belong to a smooth parametric family. Traditional approaches to estimating the FIM…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-22 Visar Berisha , Alfred O. Hero

We derive general expressions for the multi-tracer Fisher matrix, both assuming that the cross-spectra are constrained by the auto-spectra, and also allowing for independent degrees of freedom in the cross-spectra. We show that, just like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 L. Raul Abramo , Ian L. Tashiro , João V. D. Ferri
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