MaxEnt 2014 Final Programs

Sunday, September 21

09h00-10h00 Registration

Tutorial session 1 (10h00-13h00)

Chaired by Ali Mohammad-Djafari / Frédéric Barbaresco / John Skilling


Opening: by Ali Mohammad-Djafari [slides] [video] and Frédéric Barbaresco [slides] [video]

  1. Modern Probability Theory (71)
    Kevin H. Knuth
    [No paper] [slides] [No video]

  2. The Basics of Information Geometry (85)
    Ariel Caticha
    [paper] [slides] [video]

  3. Voronoi diagrams in information geometry (94)
    Frank Nielsen
    [No paper] [slides] [video]


Lunch break: 13h00-14h30

Tutorial session 2 (14h30-16h30)

Chaired by Ariel Caticha / Ken H. Knuth / Frank Nielsen



  1. Foundations and Geometry (104)
    John Skilling
    [paper] [slides] [video]

  2. Uncertainty quantification for computer model (101)
    Udo V. Toussaint
    [No paper] [slides] [video]

  3. Geometric Structures Induced From Divergence Functions (95)
    Jun Zhang
    [No paper] [No slides] [video]

  4. Koszul Information Geometry and Souriau Lie Group Thermodynamics (09)
    Frédéric Barbaresco
    [paper] [slides] [video]

  5. Bayesian and Information Geometry in signal processing (1)
    Ali Mohammad-Djafari
    [paper] [slides] [video]


Wellcome buffet: 19h30-21h30

Monday September 22

Registration: 08h00-09h00

Opening Session (09h00-09h15) – A. Mohammad-Djafari & F. Barbaresco

Oral session 1 (09h15-11h15) - Statistical Manifolds

Chaired by: Steeve Zozor / J.F. Bercher / Ariel Caticha /

67 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, David Cohen-Steiner, Pooran Memari and Arnaud Poinas, Triangulating Statistical Manifolds
[No paper] [No slides] [video]

69 Nina Miolane and Xavier Pennec, Statistics on Lie groups : a need to go beyond the pseudo-Riemannian framework
[paper] [slides] [video]

76 Max H. M. Costa and Olivier Rioul, From Almost Gaussian to Gaussian
[paper] [slides] [video]

09 F. Barbaresco, Koszul Information Geometry and Souriau Lie Group Thermodynamics
[paper] [slides] [video]

Coffee break (11h15-11h30)

Poster session 1: (11h30-12h45)

Chaired by: Kevin Knuth / Nicolas Gac


25 Swapnesh Panigrahi, Julien Fade and Mehdi Alouini, Contrast enhancement in polarimetric imaging with correlated noise fluctuations
[paper] [No poster]

34 Julianna Pinele, Joao Strapasson and Sueli Costa, An Upper Bound for the Fisher-Rao Distance of Multivariate Normal Models
[paper] [poster]


36 Marcel Reginatto, Francis Gagnon-Moisan, Jorge Guerrero, Ralf Nolte and Andreas Zimbal, A Bayesian method to estimate the neutron response matrix of a single crystal CVD diamond detector
[paper] [No poster]


41 Francois Bertholon, Olivier Harant, Christian Jutten, Pierre Grangeat, Bertrand Bourlon and Laurent Gerfault, Signal analysis of NEMS sensors at the output of a chromatography column
[paper] [No poster]

50 Osamu Komori and Shinto Eguchi, Maximum power entropy method for ecological data analysis
[paper] [No poster]


86 Selman Ipek and Ariel Caticha, Entropic Dynamics of Relativistic Quantum Fields: What is a Particle?
[paper] [No poster]


49 Luigi Malagò and Giovanni Pistone, Gradient flow of the stochastic relaxation on a generic exponential family
[paper] [No poster]


Lunch break (12h45-14h00)

Oral session 2 (14h00-15h00) - Entropy Foundations

Chaired by: A. Mohammad-Djafari / J. Skilling


Invited talk: M. Gromov, On the structure of Entropy (96)
[No paper] [slides] [video]

Coffee break (15h00-15h30)

Oral session 3 (15h30-17h30) - Information Geometry

Chaired by: A. Caticha / Steeve Zozor / F. Nielsen

29 Robert Wolak and Michel Nguiffo Boyom, Foliations in Information Geometry
[paper] [No slides] [video]


20 Mitsuhiro Itoh and Hiroyasu Satoh, Fisher Information Geometry of the Barycenter Map
[paper] [slides] [video]


37 Kei Kobayashi, Mitsuru Orita and Henry P. Wynn, Statistical analysis via the curvature of data spaces
[paper] [ No slides] [video]


Cocktail (18h00-19h30)



Tuseday, September 23

Oral session 4 (9h00-10h45) – History of Science

Chaired by: John Skilling / Antony Garrette

Invited talk: Stephano Bordoni, Duhem’s abstract thermodynamics (89)
[No paper] [slides] [video]


30 Olivier Rioul and José Carlos Magossi, Shannon’s Formula and Hartley’s Rule: A Mathematical Coincidence?
[paper] [slides] [video]


52 Anthony Garrett, In search of hidden variables
[No paper] [No slides] [video]

Coffee break (10h45-11h00)

Oral session 5 (11h00-12h30) – Bayesian inference

Chaired by: R. Bontekoe / F. Nielsen / J. Skilling

10 Fred Daum, Bayesian particle flow for estimation, decisions and transport
[No paper] [slides] [video]


55 Jaehyung Choi and Andrew P. Mullhaupt Application of Kahler manifold to signal processing and Bayesian inference
[paper] [slides] [video]


87 Michael Habeck, Nested sampling with demons
[paper] [slides] [video]

Lunch break (12h30-14h00)

Oral session 6 (14h00-15h30) - Foundations and Geometry

Chaired by: John Skilling / F. Nielsen / Ariel Caticha

95 Jun Zhang, Information geometry and optimal transport theory
[paper] [No slides] [video]


43 Marios Valavanides and Tryfon Daras Optimum Operating Conditions for Two-Phase Flow in Pore Network Systems: Conceptual /Numerical Justification Based on the MEP principle
[paper] [slides] [video]


08 Julio Stern, Cognitive-Constructivism, Quine, Dogmas of Empiricism, and Muenchhausen’s Trilemma
[No paper only abstract] [slides] [video]

Coffee break (15h30-15h45)

Poster session 2 : (15h45-18h45)

Chaired by: Jean-François Bercher / Valérie Girardin / Marcel Reginatto

04 Bontekoe (Demo avec Mathematica)
[paper] [No poster]

06 Hellinton Takada and Julio Stern, Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and Term Structure of Interest Rates
[paper] [poster]

07 Hellinton Takada and Julio Stern, Information Criterion for Selection of Ubiquitous Factors
[paper] [poster]

15 Alexis Decurninge and Frédéric Barbaresco, Robust Burg Estimation of stationary autoregressive mixtures covariance
[paper] [No poster]

17 Keiko Uohashi, Harmonic maps relative to $\alpha$-connections on statistical manifolds
[paper] [No poster]

18 Soumia Sid Ahmed, Zoubeida Messali, Abdeldjalil Ouhabi, Sylvain Trepout, Cedric Messaoudi and Segio Marco Non Parametric Denoising Methods Based on Wavelets : Application to Electron Microscopy Images in Low Time Exposure
[paper] [poster]

22 Youssef Bennani, Luc Pronzato and Maria-Joao Rendas, Most Likely Maximum Entropy for Population Analysis: a case study in decompression sickness prevention
[paper] [poster]

46 Olivier Schwander, José Picheral, Nicolas Gac, Daniel Blacodon and Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Aero-accoustics source separation with sparsity inducing priors in the frequency domain
[paper] [poster]

56 Ramandeep Johal, Renuka Rai and Guenter Mahler, Bounds on Thermal Efficiency from Inference
[paper] [poster]

60 Yasmín Navarrete, Sergio Davis and Gonzalo Gutiérrez, Maximum entropy modelling of opinions in social groups
[No paper] [No poster]

63 Leila Gharsalli, Hacheme Ayasso, Bernard Duchêne and Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Variational Bayesian Approach with a heavy-tailed prior distribution for solving a non-linear inverse scattering problem
[No paper] [No poster]

80 Abdelbassit Boualem, Meryem Jabloun, Philippe Ravier, Marie Naiim and Alain Jalocha, Assessment of two MCMC algorithms convergence for Bayesian estimation of the particle size distribution from multiangle dynamic light scattering measurements
[paper] [No poster]

81 Isaac Almasi and Adel Mohammadpour, Bayesian Reconstruction in Lévy Distribution
[No paper] [No poster]

65 Ben Placek and Kevin Knuth, A Bayesian Analysis Of Kepler-2b Using The EXONEST Algorithm
[paper] [No poster]

83 Mahdi Teimouri, Saeid Rezakhah and Adel Mohammadpour, Entropy-based goodness-of-fit test for positive stable distribution
[paper] [No poster]

88 Ali Ghaderi, On coarse graining of information and its application to pattern recognition
[paper] [No poster]

90 Veroni Jayawardana, Adom Giffin and Sumona Mondal, Bayesian analysis of factors associated with Fibromyalga syndrome subjects
[paper] [No poster]

91 Adom Giffin, Joseph Skufca and Palmer Lao, Using Bayes factors for multi-factor, biometric authentification
[No paper] [No poster]

93 Steven H. Waldrip, Robert K. Niven, Markus Abel and Michael Schlegel MaxEnt Analysis of a Water Distribution Network in Canberra, ACT, Australia
[paper] [No poster]

Wednesday, September 24

Oral session 7 (9h00-10h15) - Quantum physics

Chaired by: S. Zozor / J.F. Bercher / F. Barbaresco

Invited talk: R. Balian, The entropy-based quantum metric (98)
[No paper] [slides] [video]

Coffee break (10h15-10h30)

Oral session 8 (10h30-12h45) – Quantum physics

Chaired by: Roger Balian / J.F. Bercher / Ariel Caticha

84 Ariel Caticha, Daniel Bartolomeo and Marcel Reginatto, Entropic Dynamics: from Entropy and Information Geometry
[paper] [slides] [video]


38 Marcel Reginatto, The geometrical structure of quantum theory as a natural generalization of information geometry
[paper] [slides] [video]


44 Stephan Weis The MaxEnt extension of a quantum Gibbs family, convex geometry and geodesics
[paper] [No slides] [video]


45 Steeve Zozor, Gustavo Martín Bosyk, Mariela Portesi, Tristan Osán and Pedro Walter Lamberti Beyond Landau--Pollak and entropic inequalities: geometric bounds imposed on uncertainties sum
[paper] [slides] [video]

Lunch break (12h45-14h00)

Oral session 9 (14h00-15h00) - Quantum entropy

Chaired by: S. Zozor / R. Balian / Roman Belavkin

61 Klil Neori and Philip Goyal Anyons in the Operational Formalism
[paper] [slides] [video]


64 Roman Belavkin On Variational Definition of Quantum Entropy
[paper] [slides] [video]


23 Pierre Maréchal Duality for maximum entropy diffusion MRI
[paper] [slides] [video]

Social activities

Visit of Chenonceau castle

Gala Diner at Chissay Castle

Thursday, September 25

Oral session 10 (9h00-10h30) - Geometric Structure of Information

Chaired by: Ariel Caticha / John Skilling

Invited talk: D. Bennequin, Topological forms of information (97)
[paper] [slides] [video]

24 Ke Sun and Stéphane Marchand-Maillet Information Geometric Density Estimation
[paper] [slides] [video]

Coffee break (10h30-10h45)

Oral session 11 (10h45-12h45) - Learning, Information, Divergence

Chaired by: Frank Nielson / Kevin Knuth / Fred Daum / O. Rioul


26 Jean-François Bercher, Valérie Girardin, Justine Lequesne and Philippe Regnault Goodness-of-fit tests based on $(h,\varphi)$-divergences and entropy differences
[No paper] [slides] [video]


35 Takashi Takenouchi, Osamu Komori and Shinto Eguchi A novel boosting algorithm for multi-task learning based on the Itakuda-Saito divergence
[paper] [slides] [video]

Lunch break (12h45-14h00)

Oral session 12 (14h00-15h30) – Bayesian learning

Chaired by: Stephan Weis / F. Nielsen / Ariel Caticha

78 Frank Nielsen On learning statistical mixtures maximizing the complete likelihood
[paper] [slides] [video]


102 U. von Toussaint, Robust phase estimation for signals with a low signal-to-noise-ratio
[paper] [slides] [No video]


73 Philippe Cuvillier Time-coherency of Bayesian priors of transient semi-Markov chains for sequential alignment
[paper] [slides] [video]

Coffee break (15h30-15h45)

Poster session 3 (15h45-18h30) :

Chaired by: Mathieu Kowalski / Aurélia Fraisse / Olivier Rioul / Sueli Costa

5 Justine Lequesne and Valérie Girardin, Analysis of information into marginal effects
[paper] [poster]


13 Marco Congedo and Alexandre Barachant, A Special Form of SPD Matrix for Interpretation and Visualization of Data Manipulated with Riemannian Geometry
[paper] [poster]


19 Jean-François Degurse, Information geometry for radar detection in heterogeneous environments
[No paper] [No poster]


21 Alice Le Brigant, Marc Arnaudon and Frédéric Barbaresco, Probability on spaces of curves and in the associated metric spaces via information geometry: Application to the statistical study of non-stationary Radar signatures
[paper] [poster]


31 Muhammed Sutcu and Ali Abbas, First Order Dependence Trees with Cumulative Residual Entropy
[paper] [poster]


47 Steeve Zozor and Jean-Marc Brossier, De Bruijn identity: from Shannon entropy and Fisher information to generalized $f-$divergences and $f-$Fisher divergences
[paper] [poster]


48 Anass Bellachehab and Jeremie Jakubowicz , Distributed consensus for metamorphic systems using a gossip algorithm for CAT(0) metric spaces
[paper] [No poster]


51 James Walsh and Kevin Knuth, Information-Based Physics, Influence and Forces
[paper] [No poster]


53 Mircea Dumitru and Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Estimating the periodic components of a biomedical signal through Inverse Problem modeling and Bayesian Inference with sparsity enforcing prior
[paper] [poster]


54 Li Wang, Ali Mohammad-Djafari and Nicolas Gac, Bayesian 3D X-ray Computed Tomography image reconstruction with a Scaled Gaussian Mixture prior model
[paper] [No poster]


57 Geert Verdoolaege, Geodesic least squares regression for scaling studies in magnetic confinement fusion
[paper] [No poster]


66 Ning Chu, Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Nicolas Gac and José Picheral, A Hierarchical Variational Bayesian Approximation Approach in Robust Acoustic Imaging
[paper] [poster]


68 Yannis Kalaidzidis, Inna Kalaidzidis and Marino Zerial, Quantitative microcopy: markers colocalization on intracellular vesicular structures
[paper] [No poster]


70 Kiamars Vafayi, Maximum-entropy method of moments for density estimation with large number of moments
[No paper] [No poster]

72 Kevin Knuth, The Problem of Motion: The Statistical Mechanics of Zitterbewegung
[paper] [No poster]


74 Sergio Davis, Joaquín Peralta, Yasmín Navarrete, Diego González and Gonzalo Gutiérrez, A Bayesian interpretation of first-order phase transitions
[No paper] [No poster]


94 R. Preuss and U. von Toussaint, Bayesian uncertainty quantification for an electrostatic plasma model
[paper] [No poster]

14 Bahruz Gadjiev and Tatiana Progulova Origin of generalized entropies and generalized statistical mechanics for superstatistical multifractal systems
[paper] [No poster]

Friday, September 26

Oral session 13 (9h00-11h00) – Entropy and Information Geometry

Chaired by: John Skilling/ F. Nielsen / F. Barbaresco


11 Harsha K V and Subrahamanian Moosath K S, Geometry of F-likelihood Estimators and F-Max-Ent Theorem
[paper] [slides] [No video]


92 Robert Niven, Markus Abel, Steven H. Waldrip, Michael Schlegel and Bernd R. Noack MaxEnt Analysis of Flow and Reaction Networks
[paper] [slides] [video]

Coffee break (11h00-11h15)

Oral session 14 (11h15-12h45) - Bayesian inference

Chaired by: P. Maréchal / Steeve Zozor / J.F. Bercher


40 Hiroshi Matsuzoe Information geometry of Bayesian statistics
[paper] [slides] [video]


103 R. Preuss and Udo V. Toussaint Bayesian uncertainty quantification for an electrostatic plasma model
[No paper] [slides] [video]

Lunch break (12h45-14h00)

Oral session 15 (14h00-17h00)- Maximum Entropy Principle

Chaired by: John Skilling / Hiroshi Matsuzoe


16 Patrick Bogaert and Sarah Gengler MinNorm approximation of MaxEnt/MinDiv problems for probability tables
[paper] [slides] [video]


42 Shinto Eguchi, Osamu Komori and Atsumi Ohara Duality in a maximum generalized entropy model
[paper] [slides] [video]


58 Diego González, Sergio Davis and Gonzalo Gutiérrez Newtonian Dynamics from the principle of Maximum Caliber
[No paper] [slides] [video]

Cofee break (17h00-17h15)

Closing Session (17h15-17h30) – A. Mohammad-Djafari & F. Barbaresco
Final discussions [video]



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