Publications associées à Refined Support and Entropic Uncertainty Inequalities

Heuristic Estimation of the Vacuum Energy Density of the Universe: Part I—Analysis Based on Time Domain Electromagnetic Radiation

In this paper, an inequality satisfied by the vacuum energy density of the universe is derived using an indirect and heuristic procedure. The derivation is based on a proposed thought experiment, according to which an electron is accelerated to a constant ...

2023

Pressure-freezing of dodecane: exploring the crystal structures, formation kinetics and phase diagrams for colossal barocaloric effects in n-alkanes

Tomasz Poreba

Barocaloric (BC) materials provide cheaper and more energy efficient alternatives to traditional refrigerants. Some liquid alkanes were recently shown to exhibit a colossal BC effect, matching the entropy changes in commercial vapour-liquid refrigerants. D ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Motor-Unit Ordering of Blindly-Separated Surface-EMG Signals for Gesture Recognition

Elisa Donati, Pasquale Davide Schiavone

Hand gestures are one of the most natural and expressive way for humans to convey information, and thus hand gesture recognition has become a research hotspot in the human-machine interface (HMI) field. In particular, biological signals such as surface ele ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2023

A 3.3-Gb/s SPAD-Based Quantum Random Number Generator

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Gramuglia, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Mario Stipcevic

Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are a burgeoning technology used for a variety of applications, including modern security and encryption systems. Typical methods exploit an entropy source combined with an extraction or bit generation circuit in or ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

A Functional Perspective on Information Measures

Amedeo Roberto Esposito

Since the birth of Information Theory, researchers have defined and exploited various information measures, as well as endowed them with operational meanings. Some were born as a "solution to a problem", like Shannon's Entropy and Mutual Information. Other ...

EPFL2022

Information Theoretic Characterization of Uncertainty Distinguishes Surprise From Accuracy Signals in the Brain

Kerstin Preuschoff, Leyla Loued-Khenissi

Uncertainty presents a problem for both human and machine decision-making. While utility maximization has traditionally been viewed as the motive force behind choice behavior, it has been theorized that uncertainty minimization may supersede reward motivat ...

2020

Generalized maximum entropy estimation

Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, John Lygeros, Tobias Sutter

We consider the problem of estimating a probability distribution that maximizes the entropy while satisfying a finite number of moment constraints, possibly corrupted by noise. Based on duality of convex programming, we present a novel approximation scheme ...

2019

Entropy as a tool for crystal discovery

Pablo Miguel Piaggi

The computational prediction of crystal structures has emerged as an useful alternative to expensive and often cumbersome experiments. We propose an approach to the prediction of crystal structures and polymorphism based on reproducing the crystallization ...

EPFL2019

Learning and Adaptive Data Analysis via Maximal Leakage

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Ibrahim Issa, Amedeo Roberto Esposito

There has been growing interest in studying connections between generalization error of learning algorithms and information measures. In this work, we generalize a result that employs the maximal leakage, a measure of leakage of information, and explore ho ...

IEEE2019

Measurement data interpretation and prediction for optimal management of bridges

Marco Proverbio

For many developed countries, the asset management of aging infrastructure continues to present challenges and risks. Around the world, built-environment assets such as bridges, require functional changes and future-proofing in order to accommodate new and ...

EPFL2019

Sphere-of-Influence Graphs in Normed Spaces

János Pach, Márton Naszódi

We showthat any k-th closed sphere-of-influence graph in a d-dimensional normed space has a vertex of degree less than 5dk, thus obtaining a common generalization of results of Furedi and Loeb (Proc AmMath Soc 121(4): 1063-1073, 1994 [1]) and Guibas et al. ...

SPRINGER2018

A methodology for the rigorous verification of Particle-in-Cell simulations

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Carrie Fiona Beadle

A methodology to perform a rigorous verification of Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations is presented, both for assessing the correct implementation of the model equations (code verification), and evaluating the numerical uncertainty affecting the simulation ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Quantifying snowfall and avalanche release synchronization: a case study

Benoît Crouzy, Paolo Perona, Romain Forclaz, Betty Sovilla

We quantify the synchronization between snowfall and natural avalanches in relation to terrain properties at the detachment zone. We analyze field statistics of 549 avalanche events in terms of slope, aspect, timing, coordinate, and release area, identifie ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Quantitative analysis of structural changes during rapid urban growth

Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

New quantitative measures of urban structural changes are introduced and applied to the fast-growing city of Kerman, Iran. The results of 20,802 street measurements show that the main street orientations are orthogonal, both in the old inner part and in th ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2015

Statistical-thermodynamics modelling of the built environment in relation to urban ecology

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Various aspects of the built environment have important effects on ecology. Providing suitable metrics for the built forms so as to quantify and model their internal relations and external ecological footprints, however, remains a challenge. Here we provid ...

Elsevier2015

Traveling Salesman in Reverse: Conditional Markov Entropy for Trajectory Segmentation

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Mohamed Kafsi

We are interested in inferring the set of waypoints (or intermediate destinations) of a mobility trajectory in the absence of timing information. We find that, by mining a dataset of real mobility traces, computing the entropy of conditional Markov traject ...

IEEE2015

Observation of the B-s(0) -> eta 'eta ' Decay

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Alessandro Mapelli, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Cédric Potterat, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Julien Rouvinet, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Bastien Luca Muster, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Liang Sun, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Jessica Prisciandaro, Ilya Komarov, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Mirco Dorigo, Sebastiana Gianì, Maurizio Martinelli, Jian Wang, Liupan An, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Luca Pescatore, Adam Davis, Pietro Marino, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, , , , , , ,

A New Entropy Power Inequality for Integer-Valued Random Variables

Emmanuel Abbé, Saeid Haghighatshoar

The entropy power inequality (EPI) yields lower bounds on the differential entropy of the sum of two independent real-valued random variables in terms of the individual entropies. Versions of the EPI for discrete random variables have been obtained for spe ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

An information-theoretical perspective on weighted ensemble forecasts

Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen, Steven Vincent Weijs

This paper presents an information--theoretical method for weighting ensemble forecasts with new information. Weighted ensemble forecasts can be used to adjust the distribution that an existing ensemble of time series represents, without modifying the valu ...

Elsevier2013

Entropy in the Coil-to-Globule Transition of Macromolecules : Insights from Simple Models

Carlo Maffi

The coil to globule transition is a fundamental phenomenon in the physics of macro-molecules by reason of the multiplicity of arrangements of their conformation. Such conformational freedom is the main source of entropy in the molecule and is the main oppo ...

EPFL2012