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The aim of this paper is to provide new theoretical and computational understanding on two loss regularizations employed in deep learning, known as local entropy and heat regularization. For both regularized losses we introduce variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-26 Nicolas Garcia Trillos , Zach Kaplan , Daniel Sanz-Alonso

Data collection is a critical step in statistical inference and data science, and the goal of statistical experimental design (ED) is to find the data collection setup that can provide most information for the inference. In this work we…

Computation · Statistics 2020-07-01 Ziqiao Ao , Jinglai Li

Epilepsy is a neurological condition such that it affects the brain and the nervous system. It is characterized by recurrent seizures, which are physical reactions to sudden, usually brief, excessive electrical discharges in a group of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-30 Asmaa Hamad , Aboul Ella Hassanien , Aly A. Fahmy , Essam H. Houssein

EEG time series are analyzed using the diffusion entropy method. The resulting EEG entropy manifests short-time scaling, asymptotic saturation and an attenuated alpha-rhythm modulation. These properties are faithfully modeled by a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-02-09 M. Ignaccolo , M. Latka , W. Jernajczyk , P. Grigolini , B. J. West

In statistical physics, useful notions of entropy are defined with respect to some coarse graining procedure over a microscopic model. Here we consider some special problems that arise when the microscopic model is taken to be relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Holzhey , F. Larsen , F. Wilczek

This article is devoted to the study of overlap measures of densities of two exponential populations. Various Overlapping Coefficients, namely: Matusita's measure $\rho$, Morisita's measure $\lambda$ and Weitzman's measure $\Delta$. A new…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-11 Hamza Dhaker , Papa Ngom , Malick Mbodj

A normative electrographic activity map could be a powerful resource to understand normal brain function and identify abnormal activity. Here, we present a normative brain map using scalp EEG in terms of relative band power. In this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-07 Vytene Janiukstyte , Thomas W Owen , Umair J Chaudhary , Beate Diehl , Louis Lemieux , John S Duncan , Jane de Tisi , Yujiang Wang , Peter N Taylor

Selecting an appropriate divergence measure is a critical aspect of machine learning, as it directly impacts model performance. Among the most widely used, we find the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence, originally introduced in kinetic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Gennaro Auricchio , Giovanni Brigati , Paolo Giudici , Giuseppe Toscani

We study concentration inequalities for the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence between the empirical distribution and the true distribution. Applying a recursion technique, we improve over the method of types bound uniformly in all regimes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jay Mardia , Jiantao Jiao , Ervin Tánczos , Robert D. Nowak , Tsachy Weissman

The practice of employing empirical likelihood (EL) components in place of parametric likelihood functions in the construction of Bayesian-type procedures has been well-addressed in the modern statistical literature. We rigorously derive…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-08-21 Albert Vexler , Li Zou , Alan D. Hutson

Objective: The circadian rhythm synchronizes physiological and behavioural patterns with the 24-hour light-dark cycle. Disruption to the circadian rhythm is linked to various health conditions, though optimal methods to describe these…

A generalized Kullback-Leibler relative entropy is introduced starting with the symmetric Jackson derivative of the generalized overlap between two probability distributions. The generalization retains much of the structure possessed by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Takuya Yamano

Covariate balance is a conventional key diagnostic for methods used estimating causal effects from observational studies. Recently, there is an emerging interest in directly incorporating covariate balance in the estimation. We study a…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-14 Qingyuan Zhao , Daniel Percival

When sampling multi-modal probability distributions, correctly estimating the relative probability of each mode, even when the modes have been discovered and locally sampled, remains challenging. We test a simple reweighting scheme designed…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Pierre Monmarché

Objectives: This study examines human Photoplethysmogram (PPG) along with Electrocardiogram (ECG) signals to study cardiac autonomic imbalance in epileptic seizures. The significance and the prevalence of changes in PPG morphological…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Seyede Mahya Safavi , Ninaz Valisharifabad , Robert Sabino , Hsinchung Chen , Ali HeydariGorji , Demi Tran , Jack Lin , Beth Lopour , Pai H. Chou

This paper proposes two estimators of the joint entropy of the Type-II censored data. Consistency of both estimators is proved. Simulation results show that the second one shows less bias and root of mean square error (RMSE) than leading…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-03 A. Kohansal , S. Rezakhah

Electroencephalography (EEG), as the most common tool for epileptic seizure classification, contains useful information about different physiological states of the brain. Seizure related features in EEG signals can be better identified when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-15 Amirmasoud Ahmadi , Vahid Shalchyan , Mohammad Reza Daliri

A Bayesian nonparametric estimator to entropy is proposed. The derivation of the new estimator relies on using the Dirichlet process and adapting the well-known frequentist estimators of Vasicek (1976) and Ebrahimi, Pflughoeft and Soofi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Luai Al-Labadi , Viskakh Patel , Kasra Vakiloroayaei , Clement Wan

We are concerned with the reconstruction of inclusions in elastic bodies based on measurements from a laboratory experiment. In doing so, we solve the inverse problem of the time-harmonic elastic wave equation, in contrast to the stationary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Sarah Eberle-Blick , Jochen Moll

The Electrocardiography Brain Perfusion index (EBPi) is a novel electrocardiography (ECG)-based metric that may function as a proxy for cerebral blood flow (CBF). We investigated the spatio-temporal correlation between EBPi and epileptic…