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  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
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Non-Metricity in Information Geometry

  • Tatsuaki Wada and
  • Antonio Maria Scarfone

14 April 2026

The importance of non-metricity in information geometry is described through studies on gradient flow from the perspective of Weyl geometry. The Amari–Centsov tensor Ckij is the non-metricity tensor with respect to the α connection &nabla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SUURI of Information Geometry: Dedicated to SUURI Engineer Professor Shun’ichi Amari on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday)
  • Review
  • Open Access
179 Citations
63,021 Views
61 Pages

29 September 2020

In this survey, we describe the fundamental differential-geometric structures of information manifolds, state the fundamental theorem of information geometry, and illustrate some use cases of these information manifolds in information sciences. The e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Review Papers for Entropy)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,600 Views
12 Pages

Information Geometry Control under the Laplace Assumption

  • Adrian-Josue Guel-Cortez and
  • Eun-jin Kim

By combining information science and differential geometry, information geometry provides a geometric method to measure the differences in the time evolution of the statistical states in a stochastic process. Specifically, the so-called information l...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 41st International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,488 Views
8 Pages

The method of maximum entropy is used to model curved physical space in terms of points defined with a finite resolution. Such a blurred space is automatically endowed with a metric given by information geometry. The corresponding space-time is such...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 39th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,909 Views
4 Pages

Information Geometry conflicts with the independence that is required for science and for rational inference generally.

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 39th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,128 Views
25 Pages

Kählerian Information Geometry for Signal Processing

  • Jaehyung Choi and
  • Andrew P. Mullhaupt

25 March 2015

We prove the correspondence between the information geometry of a signal filter and a Kähler manifold. The information geometry of a minimum-phase linear system with a finite complex cepstrum norm is a Kähler manifold. The square of the complex cepst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information, Entropy and Their Geometric Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,065 Views
12 Pages

Information Geometry in Roegenian Economics

  • Constantin Udriste and
  • Ionel Tevy

5 July 2022

We characterise the geometry of the statistical Roegenian manifold that arises from the equilibrium distribution of an income of noninteracting identical economic actors. The main results for ideal income are included in three subsections: partition...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Geometry and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,864 Views
18 Pages

2 May 2014

A broad view of the nature and potential of computational information geometry in statistics is offered. This new area suitably extends the manifold-based approach of classical information geometry to a simplicial setting, in order to obtain an ope...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Geometry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Views
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Neural State Geometry: Unifying Amplitude Landscapes, Coherency Geometry and Information Geometry for EEG State Estimation

  • Christopher G. Batterton,
  • Mahonri W. Owen,
  • Jemma L. König,
  • Ryan J. Manchester and ,
  • Dana N. Abusaleh,
  • Simeon B. Ensing,
  • Craig A. Shepherd and
  • Mitchell A. Head
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Brain-state engineering requires measurement and modulation through interpretable, physics-informed coordinates of EEG state structure, change and intervention response. Applications include cognitive fatigue monitoring, neuromodulation readout and p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Periodic and Aperiodic Neural Dynamics: Nonlinear Perspectives in Bioengineering)
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  • Open Access
4,810 Views
11 Pages

Improved Neural Networks Based on Mutual Information via Information Geometry

  • Meng Wang,
  • Chuang-Bai Xiao,
  • Zhen-Hu Ning,
  • Jing Yu and ,
  • Ya-Hao Zhang and
  • Jin Pang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 May 2019

This paper presents a new algorithm based on the theory of mutual information and information geometry. This algorithm places emphasis on adaptive mutual information estimation and maximum likelihood estimation. With the theory of information geometr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,631 Views
25 Pages

25 June 2024

There is much interest in the topic of partial information decomposition, both in developing new algorithms and in developing applications. An algorithm, based on standard results from information geometry, was recently proposed by Niu and Quinn (201...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,842 Views
19 Pages

30 September 2017

The Information Geometry of extended exponential families has received much recent attention in a variety of important applications, notably categorical data analysis, graphical modelling and, more specifically, log-linear modelling. The essential ge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Geometry II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,925 Views
59 Pages

28 February 2024

In this work, we explore information geometry theoretic measures for characterizing neural information processing from EEG signals simulated by stochastic nonlinear coupled oscillator models for both healthy subjects and Alzheimer’s disease (AD...

(This article belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,459 Views
59 Pages

Causality Analysis with Information Geometry: A Comparison

  • Heng Jie Choong,
  • Eun-jin Kim and
  • Fei He

16 May 2023

The quantification of causality is vital for understanding various important phenomena in nature and laboratories, such as brain networks, environmental dynamics, and pathologies. The two most widely used methods for measuring causality are Granger C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Causality and Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
12,797 Views
27 Pages

21 April 2015

Interdependencies of stochastically interacting units are usually quantified by the Kullback-Leibler divergence of a stationary joint probability distribution on the set of all configurations from the corresponding factorized distribution. This is a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theoretic Incentives for Cognitive Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,522 Views
13 Pages

24 July 2023

We propose to use a particular case of Kaniadakis’ logarithm for the exploratory analysis of compositional data following the Aitchison approach. The affine information geometry derived from Kaniadakis’ logarithm provides a consistent set...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Twenty Years of Kaniadakis Entropy: Current Trends and Future Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,563 Views
16 Pages

6 August 2017

One main interest of information geometry is to study the properties of statistical models that do not depend on the coordinate systems or model parametrization; thus, it may serve as an analytic tool for intrinsic inference in statistics. In this pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Geometry II)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,460 Views
20 Pages

5 June 2018

In this paper, we present a review of recent developments on the κ -deformed statistical mechanics in the framework of the information geometry. Three different geometric structures are introduced in the κ -formalism which are obt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical Aspect of Nonlinear Statistical Physics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,670 Views
9 Pages

The Volume of Two-Qubit States by Information Geometry

  • Milajiguli Rexiti,
  • Domenico Felice and
  • Stefano Mancini

24 February 2018

Using the information geometry approach, we determine the volume of the set of two-qubit states with maximally disordered subsystems. Particular attention is devoted to the behavior of the volume of sub-manifolds of separable and entangled states wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Statistical Physics of Complex Systems)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,753 Views
8 Pages

Here I investigate some mathematical aspects of the maximum entropy theory of ecology (METE). In particular I address the geometrical structure of METE endowed by information geometry. As novel results, the macrostate entropy is calculated analytical...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 40th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
9,410 Views
18 Pages

23 August 2013

Information geometry provides a tool to systematically investigate the parameter sensitivity of the state of a system. If a physical system is described by a linear combination of eigenstates of a complex (that is, non-Hermitian) Hamiltonian, then th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distance in Information and Statistical Physics Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,747 Views
12 Pages

30 December 2025

Artstein-Avidan and Milman [Annals of mathematics (2009), (169):661–674] characterized invertible reverse-ordering transforms in the space of lower, semi-continuous, extended, real-valued convex functions as affine deformations of the ordinary...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SUURI of Information Geometry: Dedicated to SUURI Engineer Professor Shun’ichi Amari on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
13,319 Views
72 Pages

4 November 2016

We introduce the symplectic structure of information geometry based on Souriau’s Lie group thermodynamics model, with a covariant definition of Gibbs equilibrium via invariances through co-adjoint action of a group on its moment space, defining physi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,806 Views
20 Pages

The Information Geometry of Sparse Goodness-of-Fit Testing

  • Paul Marriott,
  • Radka Sabolová,
  • Germain Van Bever and
  • Frank Critchley

24 November 2016

This paper takes an information-geometric approach to the challenging issue of goodness-of-fit testing in the high dimensional, low sample size context where—potentially—boundary effects dominate. The main contributions of this paper are threefold: f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,080 Views
10 Pages

28 June 2017

Based on the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) principle for a generalized entropy functional and the conjugate representations introduced by Zhang, we have reformulated the method of information geometry. For a set of conjugate representations, the associate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Geometry II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,510 Views
24 Pages

25 September 2013

We review a nonparametric version of Amari’s information geometry in which the set of positive probability densities on a given sample space is endowed with an atlas of charts to form a differentiable manifold modeled on Orlicz Banach spaces. This no...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Applied Statistical Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,553 Views
19 Pages

12 August 2022

Information Geometry is a useful tool to study and compare the solutions of a Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) for non-equilibrium systems. As an alternative method to solving the Fokker–Planck equation, we propose a new method to calcu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropies, Information Geometry and Fluctuations in Non-equilibrium Systems)
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  • Open Access
75 Citations
7,730 Views
24 Pages

24 October 2021

Information theory provides an interdisciplinary method to understand important phenomena in many research fields ranging from astrophysical and laboratory fluids/plasmas to biological systems. In particular, information geometric theory enables us t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Review Papers for Entropy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,610 Views
13 Pages

Spectrum Sensing Method Based on Information Geometry and Deep Neural Network

  • Kaixuan Du,
  • Pin Wan,
  • Yonghua Wang,
  • Xiongzhi Ai and
  • Huang Chen

12 January 2020

Due to the scarcity of radio spectrum resources and the growing demand, the use of spectrum sensing technology to improve the utilization of spectrum resources has become a hot research topic. In order to improve the utilization of spectrum resources...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,486 Views
15 Pages

8 April 2018

This paper presents a covariance matrix estimation method based on information geometry in a heterogeneous clutter. In particular, the problem of covariance estimation is reformulated as the computation of geometric median for covariance matrices est...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar and Information Theory)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,141 Views
20 Pages

30 June 2025

We consider Onsager’s non-equilibrium thermodynamics from the perspective of the gradient flow in information geometry. Assuming Onsager’s reciprocal relations, we can regard his phenomenological equations as gradient-flow equations and d...

(This article belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,453 Views
10 Pages

Geodesic least squares (GLS) is a regression technique that operates in spaces of probability distributions. Based on the minimization of the Rao geodesic distance between two probability models of the response variable, GLS is robust against outlier...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 42nd International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,529 Views
41 Pages

19 June 2015

Information Geometry generalizes to infinite dimension by modeling the tangent space of the relevant manifold of probability densities with exponential Orlicz spaces. We review here several properties of the exponential manifold on a suitable set Ɛ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropic Aspects in Statistical Physics of Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,092 Views
15 Pages

28 May 2021

In geometry and topology, a family of probability distributions can be analyzed as the points on a manifold, known as statistical manifold, with intrinsic coordinates corresponding to the parameters of the distribution. Consider the exponential famil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measures of Information)
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  • Open Access
373 Views
16 Pages

11 June 2026

Some probability distributions can be described by relevant parameters, such as the mean and standard deviation for the case of Gaussians. This parameterization defines a manifold in which probability functions can be studied from a geometrical persp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SUURI of Information Geometry: Dedicated to SUURI Engineer Professor Shun’ichi Amari on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,826 Views
24 Pages

14 June 2025

The detection of weak moving targets in heterogeneous clutter backgrounds is a significant challenge in radar systems. In this paper, we propose a track-before-detect (TBD) method based on information geometry (IG) theory applied to range-azimuth mea...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,006 Views
41 Pages

25 March 2026

Non-parametric information geometry has long faced an “intractability barrier”: in the infinite-dimensional setting, the Fisher–Rao metric is a weak Riemannian metric functional that lacks a bounded inverse, rendering classical opti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SUURI of Information Geometry: Dedicated to SUURI Engineer Professor Shun’ichi Amari on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
4,012 Views
19 Pages

Multisource Fusion UAV Cluster Cooperative Positioning Using Information Geometry

  • Chengkai Tang,
  • Yuyang Wang,
  • Lingling Zhang,
  • Yi Zhang and
  • Houbing Song

31 October 2022

Due to the functional limitations of a single UAV, UAV clusters have become an important part of smart cities, and the relative positioning between UAVs is the core difficulty in UAV cluster applications. Existing UAVs can be equipped with satellite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,016 Views
29 Pages

The development and utilization of marine resources by humanity are increasing rapidly, and a single unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) is insufficient to meet the demands of ocean exploitation. Large-scale UUV swarms present a primary solution; howev...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,118 Views
22 Pages

17 March 2018

Evaluating the performance of Bayesian classification in a high-dimensional random tensor is a fundamental problem, usually difficult and under-studied. In this work, we consider two Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR)-based binary classification problems of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,518 Views
15 Pages

Information Geometry for Radar Target Detection with Total Jensen–Bregman Divergence

  • Xiaoqiang Hua,
  • Haiyan Fan,
  • Yongqiang Cheng,
  • Hongqiang Wang and
  • Yuliang Qin

6 April 2018

This paper proposes a radar target detection algorithm based on information geometry. In particular, the correlation of sample data is modeled as a Hermitian positive-definite (HPD) matrix. Moreover, a class of total Jensen–Bregman divergences, inclu...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,920 Views
19 Pages

15 April 2023

We investigate the effects of different stochastic noises on the dynamics of the edge-localised modes (ELMs) in magnetically confined fusion plasmas by using a time-dependent PDF method, path-dependent information geometry (information rate, informat...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,631 Views
16 Pages

4 November 2013

We demonstrate that the q-exponential family particularly admits natural geometrical structures among deformed exponential families. The property is the invariance of structures with respect to a general linear group, which transitively acts on the s...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Applied Statistical Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,390 Views
26 Pages

A Steering-Vector-Based Matrix Information Geometry Method for Space–Time Adaptive Detection in Heterogeneous Environments

  • Runming Zou,
  • Yongqiang Cheng,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Zheng Yang and ,
  • Xiaoqiang Hua and
  • Hanjie Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 June 2024

Plagued by heterogeneous clutter, it is a serious challenge for airborne radars to detect low-altitude, weak targets. To overcome this problem, a novel matrix information geometry detector for airborne multi-channel radar is proposed in this paper. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Array Signal Processing for Target Imaging and Detection (Second Edition))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,989 Views
19 Pages

The Information Geometry of Sensor Configuration

  • Simon Williams,
  • Arthur George Suvorov,
  • Zengfu Wang and
  • Bill Moran

4 August 2021

In problems of parameter estimation from sensor data, the Fisher information provides a measure of the performance of the sensor; effectively, in an infinitesimal sense, how much information about the parameters can be obtained from the measurements....

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
341 Views
36 Pages

Curvature Templates in Clinical Information Geometry: Fisher Manifolds, Relational Embeddings, and Worked Examples

  • Dragoş Petru Teodor Iancu,
  • Călin Gheorghe Buzea,
  • Florin Nedeff,
  • Diana Mirilă and ,
  • Valentin Nedeff,
  • Mirela Panainte-Lehaduș,
  • Claudia Manuela Tomozei,
  • Maricel Agop,
  • Pintilie Tudor Florin and
  • Decebal Vasincu
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

1 August 2026

Clinical prediction models commonly represent patients as points in high-dimensional feature spaces, but they rarely examine the information geometry generated by the statistical organization of clinical states. This study develops a theoretical and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,410 Views
31 Pages

Background: Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurological condition marked by a decline in cognitive abilities. Early diagnosis is crucial but challenging due to overlapping symptoms among impairment stages, necessitating non-invasive, reli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
160 Views
36 Pages

28 October 2026

We develop an information-geometric framework for analyzing quantum state-update processes generated by explicit collapse dynamics. Whereas a purely geometric description characterizes collapse as a finite displacement between an initial and a final...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Quantum Reports Feature Papers for 2026–2027)
  • Review
  • Open Access
806 Views
33 Pages

14 June 2026

We develop a comparative synthesis of quantum-information geometry beyond complex numbers, with emphasis on what different algebraic frameworks contribute to information-processing structure rather than on their formal novelty alone. The organizing i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry Methods and Applications in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,894 Views
15 Pages

14 April 2014

Information geometry studies the dually flat structure of a manifold, highlighted by the generalized Pythagorean theorem. The present paper studies a class of Bregman divergences called the (ρ,τ)-divergence. A (ρ,τ) -divergence generates a dually fla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Geometry)

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