Fisher Information Matrix

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2023 Nov 25 11:44
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Informant

FIM

Def:
Variance
of
Informant
. FIM reflects
Curvature
of probability distribution since informant indicates the sensitivity to changes in parameter values.

Fisher (Information) Matrix

Def: Expectation for
Outer Product
of score function. If score function (
Informant
) is vector, Fisher matrix acts like
Covariance Matrix
(not identical but equal when average of score function is 0 mathematically).

Empirical Fisher Matrix (EFIM)

Hessian Matrix

When the loss function is negative log-likelihood (NLL) or cross entropy, and optimization has converged using likelihood, the Hessian Matrix of loss function approximates the Fisher Information Matrix.
 
 
 
arxiv.org
Fisher Information
Fisher information은 MLE를 통해 추정한 파라미터의 신뢰구간을 구할 때 등장합니다. 머신러닝과 관련해서는 KL-divergence를 Fisher Information Matrix(FIM)으로 근사할 수 있습니다.
Fisher Information
 
 

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