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We propose a new way to measure the balance between freedom and coherence in a dynamical system and a new measure of its internal variability. Based on the concept of entropy and ideas from neuroscience and information theory, we define…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Karl Petersen , Benjamin Wilson

A central task in analyzing complex dynamics is to determine the loci of information storage and the communication topology of information flows within a system. Over the last decade and a half, diagnostics for the latter have come to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-20 Ryan G. James , Nix Barnett , James P. Crutchfield

Entropy is the measure of uncertainty in any data and is adopted for maximisation of mutual information in many remote sensing operations. The availability of wide entropy variations motivated us for an investigation over the suitability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-26 S. K. Katiyar , P. V. Arun

An information theory description of finite systems explicitly evolving in time is presented for classical as well as quantum mechanics. We impose a variational principle on the Shannon entropy at a given time while the constraints are set…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Chomaz , Francesca Gulminelli , Olivier Juillet

The information bottleneck (IB) method seeks a compressed representation of data that preserves information relevant to a target variable for prediction while discarding irrelevant information from the original data. In its classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Akira Kamatsuka , Takahiro Yoshida

Over the last few years, machine learning unlocked previously infeasible features for compression, such as providing guarantees for users' privacy or tailoring compression to specific data statistics (e.g., satellite images or audio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Gergely Flamich

Weakly almost i.i.d. quantum sources are sequences of multipartite states whose fixed-size marginals converge, on average, to tensor powers of a reference state, while allowing arbitrary global correlations and entanglement. We establish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Nilanjana Datta

We propose a new approach to the generation of entangled states, both hybrid and consisting exclusively of continuous variable (CV) states. A single mode squeezed vacuum is mixed with a delocalized single photon on arbitrary beam splitter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Sergey A. Podoshvedov , Mikhail S. Podoshvedov

Many enhanced sampling techniques rely on the identification of a number of collective variables that describe all the slow modes of the system. By constructing a bias potential in this reduced space one is then able to sample efficiently…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Michele Invernizzi , Michele Parrinello

The general idea of information entropy provided by C.E. Shannon "hangs over everything we do" and can be applied to a great variety of problems once the connection between a distribution and the quantities of interest is found. The Shannon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-20 Chun-Wang Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

The long-time behavior of many complex molecular systems is often governed by slow relaxation dynamics that can be described by a few reaction coordinates referred to as collective variables (CVs). However, identifying CVs hidden in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Jakub Rydzewski , Tuğçe Gökdemir

While the ongoing search to discover new high-entropy systems is slowly expanding beyond metals, a rational and effective method for predicting "in silico" the solid solution forming ability of multi-component systems remains yet to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-16 Yoav Lederer , Cormac Toher , Kenneth S. Vecchio , Stefano Curtarolo

The key issue in importance sampling is the choice of the alternative sampling distribution, which is often chosen from the exponential tilt family of the underlying distribution. However, when the problem exhibits certain kind of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-05-15 Hui Wang , Xiang Zhou

Understanding kinetics and thermodynamics profile of biomolecules is necessary to understand their functional roles which has a major impact in mechanism driven drug discovery. Molecular dynamics simulation has been routinely used to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-07 Soumendranath Bhakat

Information theoretic measures (entropies, entropy rates, mutual information) are nowadays commonly used in statistical signal processing for real-world data analysis. The present work proposes the use of Auto Mutual Information (Mutual…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-07-24 C Granero-Belinchón , S. Roux , P. Abry , N. Garnier

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for complex-valued probability measures and explores their novel applications in information theory and statistical analysis. We define a complex probability measure as a phase-modulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Siang Cheng , Hejun Xu , Tianxiao Pang

We generalize the theory of catalytic quantum randomness to delocalized and dynamical settings. First, we expand the resource theory of randomness (RTR) by calculating the amount of entropy catalytically extractable from a correlated or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Seok Hyung Lie , Hyunseok Jeong

We review a new form of entropy suggested by us, with origin in mixing of states of systems due to interactions and deformations of phase cells. It is demonstrated that this nonextensive form also leads to asymmetric maximal entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-16 Fariel Shafee

Sampling from flat modes in discrete spaces is a crucial yet underexplored problem. Flat modes represent robust solutions and have broad applications in combinatorial optimization and discrete generative modeling. However, existing sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Pinaki Mohanty , Riddhiman Bhattacharya , Ruqi Zhang

Constructing a large-scale labeled dataset in the real world, especially for high-level tasks (eg, Visual Question Answering), can be expensive and time-consuming. In addition, with the ever-growing amounts of data and architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Dong-Jin Kim , Jae Won Cho , Jinsoo Choi , Yunjae Jung , In So Kweon