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Information and estimation in Fokker-Planck channels

Information Theory 2017-02-14 v1 math.IT Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We study the relationship between information- and estimation-theoretic quantities in time-evolving systems. We focus on the Fokker-Planck channel defined by a general stochastic differential equation, and show that the time derivatives of entropy, KL divergence, and mutual information are characterized by estimation-theoretic quantities involving an appropriate generalization of the Fisher information. Our results vastly extend De Bruijn's identity and the classical I-MMSE relation.

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@article{arxiv.1702.03656,
  title  = {Information and estimation in Fokker-Planck channels},
  author = {Andre Wibisono and Varun Jog and Po-Ling Loh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.03656},
  year   = {2017}
}
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