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The Fisher information matrix (FIM) plays an important role in the analysis of parameter inference and system design problems. In a number of cases, however, the statistical data distribution and its associated information matrix are either…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

The Jensen-Shannon divergence is a renown bounded symmetrization of the unbounded Kullback-Leibler divergence which measures the total Kullback-Leibler divergence to the average mixture distribution. However the Jensen-Shannon divergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Frank Nielsen

This paper extends the asymmetric Kullback-Leibler divergence and symmetric Jensen-Shannon divergence from two probability measures to the case of two sets of probability measures. We establish some fundamental properties of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Xinpeng Li , Miao Yu

Let $G \subsetneq \mathbb{R}^n$ be a domain and let $d_1$ and $d_2$ be two metrics on $G$. We compare the geometries defined by the two metrics to each other for several pairs of metrics. The metrics we study include the distance ratio…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Parisa Hariri , Matti Vuorinen , Xiaohui Zhang

We generalise the classical Pinsker inequality which relates variational divergence to Kullback-Liebler divergence in two ways: we consider arbitrary f-divergences in place of KL divergence, and we assume knowledge of a sequence of values…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-06-09 Mark D. Reid , Robert C. Williamson

This paper concerns with mesh restrictions that are needed to satisfy several important mathematical properties -- maximum principles, comparison principles, and the non-negative constraint -- for a general linear second-order elliptic…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-02-24 M. K. Mudunuru , K. B. Nakshatrala

In his seminal paper on triangle centers, Clark Kimberling made a number of conjectures concerning the distances between triangle centers. For example, if $D(i; j)$ denotes the distance between triangle centers $X_i$ and $X_j$ , Kimberling…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Stanley Rabinowitz

In the field of statistical disclosure control, the tradeoff between data confidentiality and data utility is measured by comparing disclosure risk and information loss metrics. Distance based metrics such as the mean absolute error (MAE),…

Applications · Statistics 2023-05-16 Elias Chaibub Neto

The problem of f-divergence estimation is important in the fields of machine learning, information theory, and statistics. While several nonparametric divergence estimators exist, relatively few have known convergence properties. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Kevin R. Moon , Alfred O. Hero

Firstly, assuming Gaussianity, equations for the following information theory measures are presented: total correlation/coherence (TC), dual total correlation/coherence (DTC), O-information, TSE complexity, and redundancy-synergy index…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-18 Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui , Kieko Kochi , Toshihiko Kinoshita

Statistical distance measures have found wide applicability in information retrieval tasks that typically involve high dimensional datasets. In order to reduce the storage space and ensure efficient performance of queries, dimensionality…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-03-09 Arnab Bhattacharya , Purushottam Kar , Manjish Pal

Recent advances in statistical learning theory have revealed profound connections between mutual information (MI) bounds, PAC-Bayesian theory, and Bayesian nonparametrics. This work introduces a novel mutual information bound for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-18 El Mahdi Khribch , Pierre Alquier

Distance covariance and distance correlation are scalar coefficients that characterize independence of random vectors in arbitrary dimension. Properties, extensions, and applications of distance correlation have been discussed in the recent…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-10 Gabor J. Szekely , Maria L. Rizzo

We explore a family of information measures that stems from R\'enyi's $\alpha$-Divergences with $\alpha<0$. In particular, we extend the definition of Sibson's $\alpha$-Mutual Information to negative values of $\alpha$ and show several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Adrien Vandenbroucque , Michael Gastpar

Generalization error bounds are essential to understanding machine learning algorithms. This paper presents novel expected generalization error upper bounds based on the average joint distribution between the output hypothesis and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Gholamali Aminian , Yuheng Bu , Gregory Wornell , Miguel Rodrigues

This letter focuses on solving the challenging problem of detecting natural image boundaries. A boundary usually refers to the border between two regions with different semantic meanings. Therefore, a measurement of dissimilarity between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Fei He , Shengjin Wang

The goal of this short note is to discuss the relation between Kullback--Leibler divergence and total variation distance, starting with the celebrated Pinsker's inequality relating the two, before switching to a simple, yet (arguably) more…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Clément L. Canonne

Designing experiments that systematically gather data from complex physical systems is central to accelerating scientific discovery. While Bayesian experimental design (BED) provides a principled, information-based framework that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Huchen Yang , Xinghao Dong , Jin-Long Wu

We give an overview of statistical models and likelihood, together with two of its variants: penalized and hierarchical likelihood. The Kullback-Leibler divergence is referred to repeatedly, for defining the misspecification risk of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-09-01 Daniel Commenges

Metrization of statistical divergences is valuable in both theoretical and practical aspects. One approach to obtaining metrics associated with divergences is to consider their fractional powers. Motivated by this idea, Os\'an, Bussandri,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Kazuki Okamura