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(abridged) We develop an algorithm for estimating parameters of a distribution sampled with contamination, employing a statistical technique known as ``expectation maximization'' (EM). Given models for both member and contaminant…

The one-dimensional PDE model of the wave equation with a state feedback controller at its boundary, which describes wave dynamics of a wide-range of controlled mechanical systems, has exponentially stable solutions. However, it is known…

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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

This paper considers the problem of estimation of the Fisher information for location from a random sample of size $n$. First, an estimator proposed by Bhattacharya is revisited and improved convergence rates are derived. Second, a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Wei Cao , Alex Dytso , Michael Fauß , H. Vincent Poor , Gang Feng

Blazars are very broadband cosmic sources with spectra spanning over twenty orders of magnitude in frequency, down to the 100 MHz regime in the radio range, up to VHE at several tens of TeV. The modelling of their spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-08 Hélène Sol , Andreas Zech

The aim of this thesis is to develop a theoretical framework to study parameter estimation of quantum channels. We study the task of estimating unknown parameters encoded in a channel in the sequential setting. A sequential strategy is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Vishal Katariya

Using information theoretic quantities like the Wehrl entropy and Fisher's information measure we study the thermodynamics of the problem leading to Landau's diamagnetism, namely, a free spinless electron in a uniform magnetic field. It is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Curilef , F. Pennini , A. Plastino

The extragalactic high-energy $\gamma$-ray sky is dominated by blazars, which are active galactic nuclei with their jets pointing towards us. Distance measurements are of fundamental importance yet for some of these sources are challenging…

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The Fisher information matrix (FIM) has long been of interest in statistics and other areas. It is widely used to measure the amount of information and calculate the lower bound for the variance for maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Shenghan Guo

Diffusion models often degrade when trained in latent spaces (e.g., VAEs), yet the formal causes remain poorly understood. We quantify latent-space diffusability through the rate of change of the Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) along the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Jing Gu , Morteza Mardani , Wonjun Lee , Dongmian Zou , Gilad Lerman

We consider the estimation of parameters encoded in the measurement record of a continuously monitored quantum system in the jump unraveling, corresponding to a single-shot scenario, where information is continuously gathered. Here, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Marco Radaelli , Joseph A. Smiga , Gabriel T. Landi , Felix C. Binder

We discuss an analytical approximation for the matter power spectrum covariance matrix and its inverse on translinear scales, $k \sim 0.1h - 0.8h/\textrm{Mpc}$ at $z = 0$. We proceed to give an analytical expression for the Fisher…

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We derive general upper bounds to pointwise mutual information in terms of stochastic Fisher information and show these bounds average to known results in the literature for bounds to mutual information in terms of Fisher information. These…

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The gamma-ray emission offers a powerful diagnostic tool to probe jets and their surroundings in flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ). In particular, sources emitting at high energies (>10 GeV) give us the strongest constraints. This…

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We fit the (quasi-)simultaneous multi-waveband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) for a sample of low-synchrotron-peaked (LSP) blazars with a one-zone leptonic model. The seed photons that predominantly come from broad line region (BLR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Shiju Kang , Liang Chen , Qingwen Wu

We study the BL Lac objects detected in the one year all sky survey of the Fermi satellite, with a energy spectral slope alpha_gamma in the [0.1-100 GeV] band greater than 1.2. In the alpha_gamma vs gamma-ray luminosity plane, these BL Lacs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Foschini , G. Ghirlanda

Mildly relativistic, oblique shocks are frequently invoked as possible sites of relativistic particle acceleration and production of strongly variable, polarized multi-wavelength emission from relativistic jet sources such as blazars, via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-01 Markus Boettcher , Matthew G. Baring

We study the evolution of the nonlinear version of the Fisher information along the quasilinear heat equation. We also provide a nonlinear version of a recent functional inequality (Cie\'slak--Fuest--Hajduk--Sier\.z\k{e}ga, 2024),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Tomasz Cieślak , Kentaro Fujie , Tatsuya Hosono

Recent theoretical and experimental work has shown that the quantum Fisher information associated with estimating the separation between two optical point sources remains finite at small separations, effectively opening new routes to…

Eukaryotic cell development has been optimized by natural selection to obey maximal intracellular flux of messenger proteins. This, in turn, implies maximum Fisher information on angular position about a target nuclear pore complex (NPR).…

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