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Uncertainty estimation is a key factor that makes deep learning reliable in practical applications. Recently proposed evidential neural networks explicitly account for different uncertainties by treating the network's outputs as evidence to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Danruo Deng , Guangyong Chen , Yang Yu , Furui Liu , Pheng-Ann Heng

The introduced entropy functional's (EF) information measure of random process integrates multiple information contributions along the process trajectories, evaluating both the states' and between states' bound information connections. This…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-06-04 Vladimir S. Lerner

The problems of causality, modeling, and control for chaotic, high-dimensional dynamical systems are formulated in the language of information theory. The central quantity of interest is the Shannon entropy, which measures the amount of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Adrián Lozano-Durán , Gonzalo Arranz

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

Structured optical beams possess rich spatial features that are commonly characterized using entropic measures of field complexity. However, such measures do not directly quantify the operational usefulness of optical structure for…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 J. Sumaya-Martinez , J. Mulia-Rodriguez

The Fisher Information matrix is a widely used measure for applications ranging from statistical inference, information geometry, experiment design, to the study of criticality in biological systems. Yet there is no commonly accepted…

Computation · Statistics 2016-02-17 Omri Har Shemesh , Rick Quax , Borja Miñano , Alfons G. Hoekstra , Peter M. A. Sloot

How does the information flow between different brain regions during various stimuli? This is the question we aim to address by studying complex cognitive paradigms in terms of Information Theory. To assess creativity and the emergence of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-08 Ania Mesa-Rodríguez , Ernesto Estevez-Rams , Holger Kantz

The Tsallis entropy and Fisher information entropy (matrix) are very important quantities expressing information measures in nonextensive systems. Stationary and dynamical properties of the information entropies have been investigated in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hideo Hasegawa

Information theory provides tools to predict the performance of a learning algorithm on a given dataset. For instance, the accuracy of learning an unknown parameter can be upper bounded by reducing the learning task to hypothesis testing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Evan Peters

We propose a fast probabilistic framework for identifying differential equations governing the dynamics of observed data. We recast the SINDy method within a Bayesian framework and use Gaussian approximations for the prior and likelihood to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-24 Lloyd Fung , Urban Fasel , Matthew P. Juniper

Robotic systems often operate with uncertainties in their dynamics, for example, unknown inertial properties. Broadly, there are two approaches for controlling uncertain systems: design robust controllers in spite of uncertainty, or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Keenan Albee , Monica Ekal , Rodrigo Ventura , Richard Linares

We address the fundamental limits of learning unknown parameters of any stochastic process from time-series data, and discover exact closed-form expressions for how optimal inference scales with observation length. Given a parametrized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Paul M. Riechers

Inferring the structure and dynamics of network models is critical to understanding the functionality and control of complex systems, such as metabolic and regulatory biological networks. The increasing quality and quantity of experimental…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-05-27 Niall M. Mangan , Steven L. Brunton , Joshua L. Proctor , J. Nathan Kutz

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is a fundamental quantity to represent the characteristics of a stochastic model, including deep neural networks (DNNs). The present study reveals novel statistics of FIM that are universal among a wide…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-10 Ryo Karakida , Shotaro Akaho , Shun-ichi Amari

Measured data from a dynamical system can be assimilated into a predictive model by means of Kalman filters. Nonlinear extensions of the Kalman filter, such as the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), are required to enable the joint estimation of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Luca Rosafalco , Paolo Conti , Andrea Manzoni , Stefano Mariani , Attilio Frangi

Dynamical systems provide a mathematical framework for understanding complex physical phenomena. The mathematical formulation of these systems plays a crucial role in numerous applications; however, it often proves to be quite intricate.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Zeyad M. Manaa , Mohammed R. Elbalshy , Ayman M. Abdallah

Identifying dynamical systems characterized by nonlinear parameters presents significant challenges in deriving mathematical models that enhance understanding of physics. Traditional methods, such as Sparse Identification of Nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Siva Viknesh , Younes Tatari , Chase Christenson , Amirhossein Arzani

Data-driven discovery of model equations is a powerful approach for understanding the behavior of dynamical systems in many scientific fields. In particular, the ability to learn mathematical models from data would benefit systems biology,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 G. Pillonetto , A. Giaretta , A. Aravkin , M. Bisiacco , T. Elston

The efficacy of mathematical models heavily depends on the quality of the training data, yet collecting sufficient data is often expensive and challenging. Many modeling applications require inferring parameters only as a means to predict…

Rare events attract more attention and interests in many scenarios of big data such as anomaly detection and security systems. To characterize the rare events importance from probabilistic perspective, the message importance measure (MIM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Rui She , Shanyun Liu , Pingyi Fan