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We discuss the role of information entropy on the behaviour of random processes, and how this might take effect in the dynamics of financial market prices. We then go on to show how the Open Quantum Systems approach can be used as a more…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-01 Will Hicks

Noise affects the performance of quantum technologies, hence the importance of elaborating operative figures of merit that can capture its impact in exact terms. In quantum metrology, the introduction of the Fisher information measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Francesco Albarelli , Ilaria Gianani , Marco G. Genoni , Marco Barbieri

We study optimal investment in an asset subject to risk of default for investors that rely on different levels of information. The price dynamics can include noises both from a Wiener process and a Poisson random measure with infinite…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-12-23 Giulia Di Nunno , Steffen Sjursen

Fisher's likelihood is widely used for statistical inference for fixed unknowns. This paper aims to extend two important likelihood-based methods, namely the maximum likelihood procedure for point estimation and the confidence procedure for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Hangbin Lee , Youngjo Lee

Advanced inference techniques allow one to reconstruct the pattern of interaction from high dimensional data sets. We focus here on the statistical properties of inferred models and argue that inference procedures are likely to yield models…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-10-09 Iacopo Mastromatteo , Matteo Marsili

Classical frameworks like Fisher Information approximate the cost of neural adaptation only in low-density regimes, failing to explain the explosive computational overhead incurred during deep structural reconfiguration. To address this, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jipeng Han

This paper proposes a unifying variational approach for proving and extending some fundamental information theoretic inequalities. Fundamental information theory results such as maximization of differential entropy, minimization of Fisher…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-05 Sangwoo Park , Erchin Serpedin , Khalid Qaraqe

In decision-making problems, the actions of an agent may reveal sensitive information that drives its decisions. For instance, a corporation's investment decisions may reveal its sensitive knowledge about market dynamics. To prevent this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Parham Gohari , Matthew Hale , Ufuk Topcu

Accurate option pricing is essential for effective trading and risk management in financial markets, yet it remains challenging due to market volatility and the limitations of traditional models like Black-Scholes. In this paper, we…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Feliks Bańka , Jarosław A. Chudziak

Skew-symmetric densities recently received much attention in the literature, giving rise to increasingly general families of univariate and multivariate skewed densities. Most of those families, however, suffer from the inferential drawback…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-03 Marc Hallin , Christophe Ley

We consider the problems of clustering, classification, and visualization of high-dimensional data when no straightforward Euclidean representation exists. Typically, these tasks are performed by first reducing the high-dimensional data to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-09-29 Kevin M. Carter , Raviv Raich , William G. Finn , Alfred O. Hero

The problem how to approximately determine the absolute value of the Fisher information measure for a general parametric probabilistic system is considered. Having available the first and second moment of the system output in a parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Manuel Stein , Amine Mezghani , Josef A. Nossek

We have calculated the Tsallis entropy and Fisher information matrix (entropy) of spatially-correlated nonextensive systems, by using an analytic non-Gaussian distribution obtained by the maximum entropy method. Effects of the correlated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hideo Hasegawa

Fisher information is a measure of the best precision with which a parameter can be estimated from statistical data. It can also be defined for a continuous random variable without reference to any parameters, in which case it has a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-03-22 S. Prasad , N. C. Menicucci

To ensure high quality outputs, it is important to quantify the epistemic uncertainty of diffusion models. Existing methods are often unreliable because they mix epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty. We introduce a method based on Fisher…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-18 Aditi Gupta , Raphael A. Meyer , Yotam Yaniv , Elynn Chen , N. Benjamin Erichson

Fisher information measures a disorder system, which is specified by a corresponding probability, the likelihood. In this article, we provide a bridge to connect classical and quantum mechanics by using Fisher information. Following the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Tzu-Chao Hung

A popular approach to nonparametric option pricing is the Minimum Cross Entropy (MCE) method based on minimization of the relative Kullback-Leibler entropy of the price density distribution and a given reference density, with observable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Halperin

The convergence to stable laws is studied in relative Fisher information for sums of i.i.d. random variables.

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-07 S. G. Bobkov , G. P. Chistyakov , F. Götze

Electronic health records (EHR) often contain sensitive medical information about individual patients, posing significant limitations to sharing or releasing EHR data for downstream learning and inferential tasks. We use normalizing flows…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-14 Bingyue Su , Yu Wang , Daniele E. Schiavazzi , Fang Liu

Here we develop an option pricing method based on Legendre series expansion of the density function. The key insight, relying on the close relation of the characteristic function with the series coefficients, allows to recover the density…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2017-03-21 Julien Hok , Tat Lung Chan