On the Limiting Behaviour of the Fundamental Geodesics of Information Geometry
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Abstract
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 geometry here comes from the closure of an exponential family in a high-dimensional simplex. In parallel, there has been a great deal of interest in the purely Fisher Riemannian structure of (extended) exponential families, most especially in the Markov chain Monte Carlo literature. These parallel developments raise challenges, addressed here, at a variety of levels: both theoretical and practical—relatedly, conceptual and methodological. Centrally to this endeavour, this paper makes explicit the underlying geometry of these two areas via an analysis of the limiting behaviour of the fundamental geodesics of Information Geometry, these being Amari’s (+1) and (0)-geodesics, respectively. Overall, a substantially more complete account of the Information Geometry of extended exponential families is provided than has hitherto been the case. We illustrate the importance and benefits of this novel formulation through applications.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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