A brief tutorial on information theory
Biological Physics
2024-09-25 v3 Molecular Networks
Neurons and Cognition
Abstract
At the 2023 Les Houches Summer School on Theoretical Biological Physics, several students asked for some background on information theory, and so we added a tutorial to the scheduled lectures. This is largely a transcript of that tutorial, lightly edited. It covers basic definitions and context rather than detailed calculations. We hope to have maintained the informality of the presentation, including exchanges with the students, while still being useful.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2402.16556,
title = {A brief tutorial on information theory},
author = {Tarek Tohme and William Bialek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.16556},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
See also 2401.15538