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Fisher information is a lower bound on the uncertainty in the statistical estimation of classical and quantum mechanical parameters. While some deterministic dynamical systems are not subject to random fluctuations, they do still have a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Mohamed Sahbani , Swetamber Das , Jason R. Green

Identifiability is a necessary condition for successful parameter estimation of dynamic system models. A major component of identifiability analysis is determining the identifiable parameter combinations, the functional forms for the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-10-07 Marisa C. Eisenberg , Michael A. L. Hayashi

The quantum Fisher information, the quantum analogue of the classical Fisher information, is a central quantity in quantum metrology and quantum sensing due to its connection to parameter estimation and fidelity susceptibility. Using…

We present a unifying framework that bridges Bayesian asymptotics and information theory to analyze the asymptotic Shannon capacity of general large-scale MIMO channels including ones with nonlinearities or imperfect hardware. We derive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sheng Yang , Richard Combes

The Fisher information matrix can be used to characterize the local geometry of the parameter space of neural networks. It elucidates insightful theories and useful tools to understand and optimize neural networks. Given its high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Alexander Soen , Ke Sun

We investigate the relative information efficiency of financial markets by measuring the entropy of the time series of high frequency data. Our tool to measure efficiency is the Shannon entropy, applied to 2-symbol and 3-symbol…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-09-15 Lucio Maria Calcagnile , Fulvio Corsi , Stefano Marmi

Deep learning (DL) models are popular across various domains due to their remarkable performance and efficiency. However, their effectiveness relies heavily on large amounts of labeled data, which are often time-consuming and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Shreen Gul , Mohamed Elmahallawy , Sanjay Madria , Ardhendu Tripathy

Background: When developing a clinical prediction model using time-to-event data, previous research focuses on the sample size to minimise overfitting and precisely estimate the overall risk. However, instability of individual-level risk…

Using information theory, we propose an estimation method for traits parameters in a Darwinian evolution model for species with on trait or multiple traits. We use the Fisher's information to obtain the errors on the estimation for one…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Eddy Kwessi

Inferring the evolution of high-dimensional and multi-modal (e.g., spatio-temporal) physical fields from irregular sparse measurements in real time is a fundamental challenge in science and engineering. Existing approaches, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Panqi Chen , Yifan Sun , Shikai Fang , Xiao Fu , Lei Cheng

Understanding a complex system entails capturing the non-trivial collective phenomena that arise from interactions between its different parts. Information theory is a flexible and robust framework to study such behaviours, with several…

Most existing Spiking Neural Network (SNN) works state that SNNs may utilize temporal information dynamics of spikes. However, an explicit analysis of temporal information dynamics is still missing. In this paper, we ask several important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Youngeun Kim , Yuhang Li , Hyoungseob Park , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Anna Hambitzer , Priyadarshini Panda

The Fisher information (FI) metric is a Riemannian metric that allows a geometric treatment of stochastic thermodynamics, introducing the possibility of computing thermodynamic lengths and deviations from equilibrium. At the trajectory…

Sustainable management of marine ecosystems is vital for maintaining healthy fishery resources, and benefits from advanced scientific tools to accurately assess species distribution patterns. In fisheries science, two primary data sources…

System identification plays a crucial role in physics and machine learning for discovering governing equations directly from data. A powerful approach is the Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) method, which assumes that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Xinyi Wen , Xiao Li , Leonardo Rydin Gorjão , Veit Hagenmeyer , Benjamin Schäfer

Dynamical aspects of information-theoretic and entropic measures of quantum systems are studied. First, we show that for the time-dependent harmonic oscillator, as well as for the charged particle in certain time-varying electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 K. Andrzejewski

In dynamical systems, local interactions between dynamical units generate correlations which are stored and transmitted throughout the system, generating the macroscopic behavior. However a framework to quantify and study this at the…

The Fisher Information Metric (FIM) and the associated Cram\'er-Rao Bound (CRB) are fundamental tools in statistical signal processing, which inform the efficient design of experiments and algorithms for estimating the underlying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Shiraz Khan , Gregory S. Chirikjian

The problem of determining the achievable sensitivity with digitization exhibiting minimal complexity is addressed. In this case, measurements are exclusively available in hard-limited form. Assessing the achievable sensitivity via the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Manuel S. Stein

Accurately determining dependency structure is critical to discovering a system's causal organization. We recently showed that the transfer entropy fails in a key aspect of this---measuring information flow---due to its conflation of dyadic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Ryan G. James , James P. Crutchfield