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This paper develops information geometric representations for nonlinear filters in continuous time. The posterior distribution associated with an abstract nonlinear filtering problem is shown to satisfy a stochastic differential equation on…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Nigel J. Newton

The introduction of a metric onto the space of parameters in models in Statistical Mechanics and beyond gives an alternative perspective on their phase structure. In such a geometrization, the scalar curvature, R, plays a central role. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Janke , D. A. Johnston , R. Kenna

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

Using the square-root map p-->\sqrt{p} a probability density function p can be represented as a point of the unit sphere S in the Hilbert space of square-integrable functions. If the density function depends smoothly on a set of parameters,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-31 Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook

The unification of general relativity with quantum theory will also require a coming together of the two quite different mathematical languages of general relativity and quantum theory, i.e., of differential geometry and functional analysis…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Mikhail Panine , Achim Kempf

Modern machine learning increasingly leverages the insight that high-dimensional data often lie near low-dimensional, non-linear manifolds, an idea known as the manifold hypothesis. By explicitly modeling the geometric structure of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Willem Diepeveen , Deanna Needell

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) demands representations robust to drastic environmental and viewpoint shifts. Existing aggregation paradigms either depend on extensive supervised training or rely on first-order pooling, often struggling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jintao Cheng , Weibin Li , Zhijian He , Jin Wu , Chi Man Vong , Wei Zhang

Recent advancements in the discipline of quantum algorithms have displayed the importance of the geometry of quantum operators. Given this thrust, this paper develops a rigorous geometric framework to analyze how the Riemannian structure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Andrew Vlasic

Motivated by the increasing connections between information theory and high-energy physics, particularly in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we explore the information geometry associated to a variety of simple systems. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Johanna Erdmenger , Kevin T. Grosvenor , Ro Jefferson

We introduce the information geometry module of the Python package Geomstats. The module first implements Fisher-Rao Riemannian manifolds of widely used parametric families of probability distributions, such as normal, gamma, beta,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Alice Le Brigant , Jules Deschamps , Antoine Collas , Nina Miolane

This paper lays the foundations for a unified framework for numerically and computationally applying methods drawn from a range of currently distinct geometrical approaches to statistical modelling. In so doing, it extends information…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-09-11 Karim Anaya-Izquierdo , Frank Critchley , Paul Marriott , Paul W. Vos

Inference and learning are commonly cast in terms of optimisation, yet the fundamental constraints governing uncertainty reduction remain unclear. This work presents a first-principles framework inherent to Bayesian updating, termed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Takuya Isomura

Information geometry is the application of differential geometry in statistics, where the Fisher-Rao metric serves as the Riemannian metric on the statistical manifold, providing an intrinsic property for parameter sensitivity. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Wangjun Lu , Zhao-Hui Peng , HongTao

The geometry of dynamical systems estimated from trajectory data is a major challenge for machine learning applications. Koopman and transfer operators provide a linear representation of nonlinear dynamics through their spectral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-30 Thibaut Germain , Rémi Flamary , Vladimir R. Kostic , Karim Lounici

An information-geometric approach to sensor management is introduced that is based on following geodesic curves in a manifold of possible sensor configurations. This perspective arises by observing that, given a parameter estimation problem…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-15 Bill Moran , Stephen D. Howard , Douglas Cochran

The space of probability densities is an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold, with Riemannian metrics in two flavors: Wasserstein and Fisher--Rao. The former is pivotal in optimal mass transport (OMT), whereas the latter occurs in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Klas Modin

Informationally complete measurements form the foundation of universal quantum state reconstruction, while quantum parameter estimation is based on the local structure of the manifold of quantum states. Here we establish a general link…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Rakesh Saini , Jukka Kiukas , Daniel Burgarth , Alexei Gilchrist

Supervised dimensionality reduction maps labeled data into a low-dimensional feature space while preserving class discriminability. A common approach is to maximize a statistical measure of dissimilarity between classes in the feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-03 Daniel Herrera-Esposito , Johannes Burge

The geometrical diffraction theory, in the sense of Keller,is here reconsidered as an obstacle problem in the Riemannian geometry. The first result is the proof of the existence and the analysis of the main properties of the diffracted…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico De Micheli , Giacomo Monti Bragadin , Giovanni Alberto Viano

Motivated by inverse problems with a single passive measurement, we introduce and analyze a new class of inverse spectral problems on closed Riemannian manifolds. Specifically, we establish two general uniqueness results for the recovery of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Ali Feizmohammadi , Katya Krupchyk