The timetable is in Japan Standard Time (UTC+0900).
Chair: Noboru Murata
11:00 - 11:10 Opening remark
Shun-ichi Amari, Teikyo University & RIKEN Center for Brain Science
11:10 - 12:00 Information geometry of Wasserstein statistics
Takeru Matsuda, University of Tokyo & RIKEN Center for Brain Science
(Note: The presentation by Klaus-Robert Müller has been cancelled.)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Chair: Hans-Georg Müller
13:30 - 14:20 (invited talk) On Parameterizing Optimal Transport with Elastic Costs
Marco Cuturi, Apple and ENSAE
14:30 - 15:20 (invited talk) A Unified Information Geometric Perspective on Machine Learning in Structured Spaces
Mahito Sugiyama, National Institute of Informatics
Chair: Carlos Améndola
15:40 - 16:30 (invited talk) Information geometry of Markov chains: structure arising from Markov-centric properties
Geoffrey Wolfer, Waseda University
16:40 - 17:25 (short talks)
16:40 - 16:55 Transfer learning for Gaussian Processes
Shotaro Akaho, AIST
16:55 - 17:10 Convergence Properties of Natural Gradient Descent for Minimizing KL Divergence
Adwait Datar, Hamburg University of Technology
17:10 - 17:25 Converse Coding Theorems for Distributed Hypothesis Testing and Its Strong Connection with Information Geometry
Yasutada Oohama, University of Electro-Communications
Chair: Ting-Kam Leonard Wong
10:10 - 11:00 (invited talk) Multivariate Gaussians and Algebraic Statistics
Carlos Améndola, Technical University of Berlin
11:10 - 12:00 (invited talk) Information Geometry and Asymptotics for Kronecker Covariance Matrices
Andrew McCormack, University of Alberta
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Chair: Nihat Ay
(Note: The following two presentations have been swapped. (Mar 14))
13:30 - 14:20 (invited talk) Information Geometry of Lévy Measures for Subordinators and Bayesian Prediction
Fumiyasu Komaki, The University of Tokyo
14:30 - 15:20 (invited talk) Distance Profiles for Random Objects and Applications to Metric Data Analysis and Conformal Inference
Hans-Georg Müller, University of California, Davis
Chair: Naomichi Nakajima
15:40 - 16:25 (short talks)
15:40 - 15:55 Efficiency of the Method of Generalized Moments from the Viewpoint of Information Geometry
Hisatoshi Tanaka, Waseda university
15:55 - 16:10 An operator-theoretic dimension reduction of generative models
Nisha Chandramoorthy, The University of Chicago
16:10 - 16:25 The differential structure shared by probability and moment matching priors on non-regular statistical models via the Lie derivative
Masaki Yoshioka, Osaka University
16:40 - 18:00 (poster session 1)
1-1. On the comparison between the minimum information copulas under fixed rank correlations
Issey Sukeda, The University of Tokyo
1-2. Spectral Renyi divergence: properties in statistics and optimization / Information geometrical structure of determinantal point process
Keisuke Yano, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
1-3. Information geometry from the coarse viewpoint
Kaori Yamaguchi, Ritsumeikan University
1-4. The average distance function as a characterization of probability functions
Antonio Neme, IIMAS UNAM
1-5. An ordinary differential equation for entropic optimal transport and its linearly constrained variants
Joshua Zoen-Git Hiew, University of Alberta
1-6. Passive BCI for Dementia Prediction Using Path Signature and Riemannian Geometry Classifier
Tomasz Rutkowski, RIKEN AIP
1-7. Quantum natural gradient without monotonicity
Hideyuki Miyahara, Hokkaido university
1-8. On the attainment of the Wasserstein-Cramer-Rao lower bound
Hayato Nishimori, The University of Tokyo
1-9. Shrinkage priors for models with circulant correlation structure
Michiko Okudo, The University of Tokyo
1-10. Exploring unrecognized Markov-invariant flat structures on denormalized state spaces
Yoshitaka Fujiwara, The University of Electro-Communications
1-11. Point Cloud Registration via Gaussian Mixture Model Embedding in Symmetric Positive Definite Manifolds
Amit Vishwakarma, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (canceled)
1-12. Any kähler metric is a Fisher information metric
Emmanuel Gnandi, INSA Toulouse
1-13. Statistical manifold with degenerate metric
Kaito Kayo, Hokkaido University
1-14. Geometric Marginal Homogeneity in Compositional Tables Based on Simplicial Geometry
Keita Nakamura, Tokyo University of Science
Chair: Masayuki Henmi
10:10 - 11:00 (invited talk) Bregman-Wasserstein divergence: geometry and application
Ting-Kam Leonard Wong, University of Toronto
11:10 - 12:00 (invited talk) Toward Information Geometry of singular models
Naomichi Nakajima, Shibaura Institute of Technology
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Chair: Sosuke Ito
13:30 - 14:20 (invited talk) Scaling Limits of the Wasserstein information matrix on Gaussian Mixture Models
Wuchen Li, University of South Carolina
14:30- 15:20 (invited talk) Information Geometry of the Otto Metric
Nihat Ay, Hamburg University of Technology
Chair: Mahito Sugiyama
15:40 - 16:30 (invited talk) Information Geometry of Chemical Reaction Dynamics and Thermodynamics
Tetsuya J. Kobayashi, University of Tokyo
16:40 - 18:00 (poster session 2)
2-1. Moduli spaces of left-Invariant statistical structures, dually-flatness and conjugate symmetries
Hikozo Kobayashi, Hiroshima University
2-2. On Partitioning of Goodness-of-fit statistics for Symmetry in contingency tables from the viewpoint of Information Geometry
Tomoyuki Nakagawa, Meisei University
2-3. Information-geometric analysis of human EEG data
Masami Tatsuno, University of Lethbridge
2-4. Information geometry of operator scaling
Takeru Matsuda, University of Tokyo & RIKEN Center for Brain Science
2-5. Statistical manifolds with Divisible Cubic Form
Ryu Ueno, Hokkaido University
2-6. Continual learning on curved statistical manifolds
Naima Elosegui Borras, Technical University of Berlin
2-7. Toward Information Geometric Mechanics
Florian Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology
2-8. The generalized maximum q-work formulation based on information geometry
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ibaraki University
2-9. Weyl’s gauge symmetry on the gradient-flows in information geometry
Tatsuaki Wada, Ibaraki University
2-10. Fisher Information Degeneracy and Symmetry Breaking in Diffusion Models: A Non-Equilibrium Phase Transition Perspective
Yusuke Hayashi, AI Alignment Network
2-11. Matrix realizations of transformation exponential families
Hideyuki Ishi, Osaka Metropolitan University
2-12. An explicit formula for Hessian potentials on warped product manifolds
Tatsuo Suzuki, Shibaura Institute of Technology
2-13. f-divergence based modeling of asymmetric structures in multi-way ordinal contingency tables
Hisaya Okahara, Tokyo University of Science
Chair: Wuchen Li
10:10 - 10:55 (short talks)
10:10 - 10:25 Applications of toric geometry to the Bregman divergence
Hajime Fujita, Japan Women's University
10:25 - 10:40 Harmonic exponential families on homogeneous spaces
Koichi Tojo, RIKEN AIP
10:40 - 10:55 Statistical trasnformation models and $\alpha$-geodesic flows
Daisuke Tarama, Ritsumeikan University
11:10- 12:00 (invited talk) Nonequilibrium thermodynamics based on information geometry
Sosuke Ito, The University of Tokyo
12:00- 13:30 Lunch
Chair: Geoffrey Wolfer
13:30 - 14:20 (invited talk) Exploring quantum local asymptotic normality: Insights from information geometry
Akio Fujiwara, Osaka University
14:30 - 15:20 (invited talk) On the autoparallelity in classical and quantum information geometry
Hiroshi Nagaoka, University of Electro-Communications
Chair: Akio Fujiwara
15:40 - 16:30 (Discussion) Open Problems in Information Geometry
16:30 - 16:40 Closing