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Information theory provides a mathematical foundation to measure uncertainty in belief. Belief is represented by a probability distribution that captures our understanding of an outcome's plausibility. Information measures based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Jed A. Duersch , Thomas A. Catanach

In portable, three dimensional, and ultra-fast ultrasound imaging systems, there is an increasing demand for the reconstruction of high quality images from a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) measurements due to receiver (Rx) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yeo Hun Yoon , Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

We introduce the Mutual Information Machine (MIM), a novel formulation of representation learning, using a joint distribution over the observations and latent state in an encoder/decoder framework. Our key principles are symmetry and mutual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-10 Micha Livne , Kevin Swersky , David J. Fleet

Experimental designs are tools which can dramatically reduce the number of simulations required by time-consuming computer codes. Because we don't know the true relation between the response and inputs, designs should allow one to fit a…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-11-04 Astrid Jourdan

Diffusion MRI affords valuable insights into white matter microstructures, but suffers from low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), especially at high diffusion weighting (i.e., b-value). To avoid time-intensive repeated acquisition,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Geng Chen , Yafeng Wu , Dinggang Shen , Pew-Thian Yap

Schemes for X-ray imaging single protein molecules using new x-ray sources, like x-ray free electron lasers (XFELs), require processing many frames of data that are obtained by taking temporally short snapshots of identical molecules, each…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-17 Kartik Ayyer , Hugh T. Philipp , Mark W. Tate , Veit Elser , Sol M. Gruner

Sparse-view 3D CT reconstruction aims to recover volumetric structures from a limited number of 2D X-ray projections. Existing feedforward methods are constrained by the scarcity of large-scale training datasets and the absence of direct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Guofeng Zhang , Ruyi Zha , Hao He , Yixun Liang , Alan Yuille , Hongdong Li , Yuanhao Cai

Knowledge of the noise distribution in diffusion MRI is the centerpiece to quantify uncertainties arising from the acquisition process. Accurate estimation beyond textbook distributions often requires information about the acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Samuel St-Jean , Alberto De Luca , Chantal M. W. Tax , Max A. Viergever , Alexander Leemans

Modern information retrieval (IR) is no longer consumed primarily by humans but increasingly by large language models (LLMs) via retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic search. Unlike human users, LLMs are constrained by limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lu Dai , Liang Sun , Fanpu Cao , Ziyang Rao , Cehao Yang , Hao Liu , Hui Xiong

We define a measure of redundant information based on projections in the space of probability distributions. Redundant information between random variables is information that is shared between those variables. But in contrast to mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-30 Malte Harder , Christoph Salge , Daniel Polani

Gathering the most information by picking the least amount of data is a common task in experimental design or when exploring an unknown environment in reinforcement learning and robotics. A widely used measure for quantifying the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-17 Johannes Kulick , Robert Lieck , Marc Toussaint

Any physical system can be viewed from the perspective that information is implicitly represented in its state. However, the quantification of this information when it comes to complex networks has remained largely elusive. In this work, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-23 Manlio De Domenico , Jacob Biamonte

Information theory is a mathematical theory of learning with deep connections with topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, statistical physics, and biological evolution. Many primers on information theory paint a broad picture with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Philip Chodrow

The x-ray process is modelled using integer compositions as a two dimensional analogue of the object being x-rayed, where the examining rays are modelled by diagonal lines with equation $x-y=n$ for non negative integers $n$. This process is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-13 Aubrey Blecher , Toufik Mansour

X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is an important tool for high-resolution non-destructive characterization of additively-manufactured metal components. XCT reconstructions of metal components may have beam hardening artifacts such as cupping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Obaidullah Rahman , Singanallur V. Venkatakrishnan , Luke Scime , Paul Brackman , Curtis Frederick , Ryan Dehoff , Vincent Paquit , Amirkoushyar Ziabari

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for Financial Information Theory by applying information-theoretic concepts such as entropy, Kullback-Leibler divergence, mutual information, normalized mutual information, and transfer…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-11-21 Miquel Noguer i Alonso

In this contribution, we define (and test) a pipeline to perform virtual painting recolouring using raw data of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analysis on pictorial artworks. To circumvent the small dataset size, we generate a synthetic dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Alessandro Bombini , Fernando García-Avello Bofías , Francesca Giambi , Chiara Ruberto

Reconstructing the unknown spectrum of a given X-ray source is a common problem in a wide range of X-ray imaging tasks. For high-energy sources, transmission measurements are mostly used to recover the X-ray spectrum, as a solution to an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Arthur Walker , Alexandre Friou , Kevin Ginsburger

Entropic uncertainty relations are interesting in their own rights as well as for a lot of applications. Keeping this in mind, we try to make the corresponding inequalities as tight as possible. The use of parametrized entropies also allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

Open world Machine Learning (OWML) aims to develop intelligent systems capable of recognizing known categories, rejecting unknown samples, and continually learning from novel information. Despite significant progress in open set…

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