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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

The Fisher information matrix (FIM) is fundamental to understanding the trainability of deep neural nets (DNN), since it describes the parameter space's local metric. We investigate the spectral distribution of the conditional FIM, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-31 Tomohiro Hayase , Ryo Karakida

Natural gradient descent, which preconditions a gradient descent update with the Fisher information matrix of the underlying statistical model, is a way to capture partial second-order information. Several highly visible works have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Frederik Kunstner , Lukas Balles , Philipp Hennig

We develop a Fisher-informational reformulation of physical time in which clock time is not regarded as a fundamental ontological substance, but as an emergent calibration of causally ordered distinguishability among physical states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 J. Sumaya-Martinez

This paper provides a systematic approach to semiparametric identification that is based on statistical information as a measure of its "quality". Identification can be regular or irregular, depending on whether the Fisher information for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Juan Carlos Escanciano

Fisher information, Shannon information entropy and Statistical Complexity are calculated for the interface of a normal metal and a superconductor, as a function of the temperature for several materials. The order parameter $\Psi({\bf r})$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Ch. C. Moustakidis , C. P. Panos

We show how Fisher's information already known particular character as the fundamental information geometric object which plays the role of a metric tensor for a statistical differential manifold, can be derived in a relatively easy manner…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Masi

In this paper, we introduce a novel methodology for characterising the performance of deep learning networks (ResNets and DenseNet) with respect to training convergence and generalisation as a function of mini-batch size and learning rate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Zhibin Liao , Tom Drummond , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

We consider the processing of statistical samples $X\sim P_\theta$ by a channel $p(y|x)$, and characterize how the statistical information from the samples for estimating the parameter $\theta\in\mathbb{R}^d$ can scale with the mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Leighton Pate Barnes , Ayfer Ozgur

We introduce a positive Hermitian operator, the Fisher operator, and use it to examine a measurement process incorporating unitary dynamics and complete measurements. We develop the idea of information complement, the minimization of which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-20 Gabriel A. Durkin

Hierarchical parametric models consisting of observable and latent variables are widely used for unsupervised learning tasks. For example, a mixture model is a representative hierarchical model for clustering. From the statistical point of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-24 Keisuke Yamazaki

Fisher information provides a rigorous theoretical benchmark for evaluating quantum sensor sensitivity; however, a comprehensive framework for quantifying the fundamental limits of Rydberg-atom microwave electrometers remains lacking. In…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-04 Chen-Rong Liu , Runxia Tao , Xiang Lv , Ying Dong , Chuang Li , Binbin Wei , Mingti Zhou

Optimization in large language models (LLMs) unfolds over high-dimensional parameter spaces with non-Euclidean structure. Information geometry frames this landscape using the Fisher information metric, enabling more principled learning via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Riccardo Di Sipio

We define a mixed topology on the fiber space $\cup_\mu \oplus^n L^n(\mu)$ over the space $\mathcal{M}(\Omega)$ of all finite non-negative measures $\mu$ on a separable metric space $\Omega$ provided with Borel $\sigma$-algebra. We define a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Hông Vân Lê

These notes review the theory of Fisher information, especially its use in kinetic theory of gases and plasmas. The recent monotonicity theorem by Guillen--Silvestre for the Landau--Coulomb equation is put in perspective and generalised.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Cédric Villani

In this study, considering the Fisher information metric (Fisher metric) given by a specific form, which is the form of weights in statistical physics, we rewrite the Einstein-Hilbert (EH) action. Then, determining the transformation rules…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-29 Shingo Takeuchi

Fine-tuning criteria are frequently used to place upper limits on the masses of superpartners in supersymmetric extensions of the standard model. However, commonly used prescriptions for quantifying naturalness have some important…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Greg Anderson , Diego Castano

The Fisher matrix approach (Fisher 1935) allows one to calculate in advance how well a given experiment will be able to estimate model parameters, and has been an invaluable tool in experimental design. In the same spirit, we present here a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-22 A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching , L. Verde

We prove lower bounds on the error of any estimator for the mean of a real probability distribution under the knowledge that the distribution belongs to a given set. We apply these lower bounds both to parametric and nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Rémy Degenne , Timothée Mathieu

Fisher-information inequalities have recently been used as operational witnesses of nonclassical metrological behavior, but their physical meaning is often tied to a particular narrative, such as, segmented dynamics or discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jeongho Bang , Su-Yong Lee