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Metric entropy of causal, discrete-time LTI systems

Dynamical Systems 2022-11-29 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

In [1] it is shown that recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can learn - in a metric entropy optimal manner - discrete time, linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. This is effected by comparing the number of bits needed to encode the approximating RNN to the metric entropy of the class of LTI systems under consideration [2, 3]. The purpose of this note is to provide an elementary self-contained proof of the metric entropy results in [2, 3], in the process of which minor mathematical issues appearing in [2, 3] are cleaned up. These corrections also lead to the correction of a constant in a result in [1] (see Remark 2.5).

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@article{arxiv.2211.15466,
  title  = {Metric entropy of causal, discrete-time LTI systems},
  author = {Clemens Hutter and Thomas Allard and Helmut Bölcskei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.15466},
  year   = {2022}
}

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[1] arXiv:2105.02556