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One of the most useful tools for distinguishing between chaotic and stochastic time series is the so-called complexity-entropy causality plane. This diagram involves two complexity measures: the Shannon entropy and the statistical…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-02-27 Max Jauregui , Luciano Zunino , Ervin K. Lenzi , Renio S. Mendes , Haroldo V. Ribeiro

Satellites enable widespread, regional or global surveillance of volcanoes and can provide the first indication of volcanic unrest or eruption. Here we consider Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), which can be employed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Juliet Biggs , Fabien Albino , David Bull

Seismic waveforms contain rich information about earthquake processes, making effective data analysis crucial for earthquake monitoring, source characterization, and seismic hazard assessment. With rapid developments in deep learning, the…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Weiqiang Zhu , Junhao Song , Haoyu Wang , Jannes Münchmeyer

Advancements in onboard computing mean remote sensing agents can employ state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning at the edge. These capabilities can be leveraged to unlock new rare, transient, and pinpoint measurements of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Itai Zilberstein , Alberto Candela , Steve Chien

Accounting for the non-normality of asset returns remains challenging in robust portfolio optimization. In this article, we tackle this problem by assessing the risk of the portfolio through the "amount of randomness" conveyed by its…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2018-07-03 Nathan Lassance , Frédéric Vrins

In this paper, we estimate the Shannon entropy $S(f) = -\E[ \log (f(x))]$ of a one-sided linear process with probability density function $f(x)$. We employ the integral estimator $S_n(f)$, which utilizes the standard kernel density…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Timothy Fortune , Hailin Sang

Fisher information and Shannon entropy are fundamental tools for understanding and analyzing dynamical systems from complementary perspectives. They can characterize unknown parameters by quantifying the information contained in variables,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yuxuan Bao , J. Nathan Kutz

This paper discusses the design and implementation of a Python-based toolset to aid in assessing the response of the UK's Advanced Gas Reactor nuclear power stations to earthquakes. The seismic analyses themselves are carried out with a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Steve Brasier , Fred Pollard

We present a new approach for online handwritten signature classification and verification based on descriptors stemming from Information Theory. The proposal uses the Shannon Entropy, the Statistical Complexity, and the Fisher Information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Osvaldo A. Rosso , Raydonal Ospina , Alejandro C. Frery

This research paper delves into the innovative integration of Shannon entropy and rough set theory, presenting a novel approach to generalize the evaluation approach in machine learning. The conventional application of entropy, primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Olga Cherednichenko , Dmytro Chernyshov , Dmytro Sytnikov , Polina Sytnikova

We used a deep learning workflow to enhance earthquake detection during the 2025 seismic unrest between Santorini and Amorgos islands to track the evolution of the crisis in near real-time. We analysed the continuous seismic waveforms daily…

Analysis of a probabilistic system often requires to learn the joint probability distribution of its random variables. The computation of the exact distribution is usually an exhaustive precise analysis on all executions of the system. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Fabrizio Biondi , Yusuke Kawamoto , Axel Legay , Louis-Marie Traonouez

Background: Even though data visualizations (and underlying data) almost always contain uncertainty, it remains complex to communicate and interpret uncertainty representations. Consequently, uncertainty visualizations for non-expert…

We conclude a sequence of work by giving near-optimal sketching and streaming algorithms for estimating Shannon entropy in the most general streaming model, with arbitrary insertions and deletions. This improves on prior results that obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Jelani Nelson , Krzysztof Onak

Privacy is an individual choice to determine which personal details can be collected, used and shared. Individual consent and transparency are the core tenets for earning customers trust and this motivates the organizations to adopt privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Abhinav Palia , Rajat Tandon , Carl Mathis

R\'enyi transfer entropy (RTE) is a generalization of classical transfer entropy that replaces Shannon's entropy with R\'enyi's information measure. This, in turn, introduces a new tunable parameter $\alpha$, which accounts for sensitivity…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-06 Zlata Tabachová , Petr Jizba , Hynek Lavička , Milan Paluš

This paper presents the development of a new entropy-based feature selection method for identifying and quantifying impacts. Here, impacts are defined as statistically significant differences in spatio-temporal fields when comparing…

Applications · Statistics 2024-09-27 Jerry Watkins , Luca Bertagna , Graham Harper , Andrew Steyer , Irina Tezaur , Diana Bull

Shannon entropy was defined for probability distributions and then its using was expanded to measure the uncertainty of knowledge for systems with complete information. In this article, it is proposed to extend the using of Shannon entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Vasile Patrascu

Vibrational entropy plays a central role in determining phase stability and temperature dependent behavior in materials, yet its calculation from first-principles phonon methods remains computationally demanding. In this work, we combine…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 Shivam Tripathi , Jatin Kawatra , Varun Malviya , Krishna Mehta

A measure called Physical Complexity is established and calculated for a population of sequences, based on statistical physics, automata theory, and information theory. It is a measure of the quantity of information in an organism's genome.…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Gerard Briscoe , Philippe De Wilde
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