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We derive a tight lower bound on equivocation (conditional entropy), or equivalently a tight upper bound on mutual information between a signal variable and channel outputs. The bound is in terms of the joint distribution of the signals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Michal Hledík , Thomas R. Sokolowski , Gašper Tkačik

In this paper, we proposed a multivariate normality test based on copula entropy. The test statistic is defined as the difference between the copula entropies of unknown distribution and the Gaussian distribution with same covariances. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-14 Jian Ma

Mutual information is commonly used as a measure of similarity between competing labelings of a given set of objects, for example to quantify performance in classification and community detection tasks. As argued recently, however, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Maximilian Jerdee , Alec Kirkley , M. E. J. Newman

Information-theoretic quantities like entropy and mutual information have found numerous uses in machine learning. It is well known that there is a strong connection between these entropic quantities and submodularity since entropy over a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Rishabh Iyer , Ninad Khargonkar , Jeff Bilmes , Himanshu Asnani

Lieb and Ruskai's strong subadditivity theorem, which shows that the conditional mutual information must be nonnegative, is fundamental in quantum theory. It has numerous applications, such as in quantum error correction. When the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Zhou Gang

The channel capacity for the binary symmetric channel is investigated based on the symmetrized definition of the mutual information, which is arising from an attempt of extension of information content based on the nonadditivity. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Takuya Yamano

Information estimates such as the ``direct method'' of Strong et al. (1998) sidestep the difficult problem of estimating the joint distribution of response and stimulus by instead estimating the difference between the marginal and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-07-19 Vincent Q. Vu , Bin Yu , Robert E. Kass

Mutual information is an important measure of the dependence among variables. It has become widely used in statistics, machine learning, biology, etc. However, the standard techniques for estimating it often perform poorly in higher…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-09-18 Nick Carrara , Jesse Ernst

Exponential models of distributions are widely used in machine learning for classiffication and modelling. It is well known that they can be interpreted as maximum entropy models under empirical expectation constraints. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Amir Globerson , Naftali Tishby

I acknowledge a flaw in the paper "A quantum solution to the arrow of time dilemma": as pointed out by Jennings and Rudolph, (classical) mutual information is not an appropriate measure of information. This can be traced back to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-31 Lorenzo Maccone

This note contains discussions on the entanglement entropy and mutual information of a strongly coupled field theory with a critical point which has a holographic dual. We investigate analytically, in the specific regimes of parameters, how…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Hajar Ebrahim , Gol-Mohammad Nafisi

Mutual information is fundamentally important for measuring statistical dependence between variables and for quantifying information transfer by signaling and communication mechanisms. It can, however, be challenging to evaluate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Clive G. Bowsher , Margaritis Voliotis

We rigorously derive a single-letter variational expression for the mutual information of the asymmetric two-groups stochastic block model in the dense graph regime. Existing proofs in the literature are indirect, as they involve mapping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Jean Barbier , Chun Lam Chan , Nicolas Macris

In this paper we focus on the estimation of mutual information from finite samples $(\mathcal{X}\times\mathcal{Y})$. The main concern with estimations of mutual information is their robustness under the class of transformations for which it…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-02-04 Nicholas Carrara , Jesse Ernst

We define a measure of redundant information based on projections in the space of probability distributions. Redundant information between random variables is information that is shared between those variables. But in contrast to mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-30 Malte Harder , Christoph Salge , Daniel Polani

Using the Ryu-Takayanagi conjectured formula for entanglement entropy in the context of gauge-gravity duality, we investigate properties of mutual information between two disjoint rectangular sub-systems in finite temperature relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-09 Willy Fischler , Arnab Kundu , Sandipan Kundu

Given an unknown quantum state distributed over two systems, we determine how much quantum communication is needed to transfer the full state to one system. This communication measures the "partial information" one system needs conditioned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Horodecki , Jonathan Oppenheim , Andreas Winter

Discovering associations is of central importance in scientific practices. Currently, most researches consider only linear association measured by correlation coefficient, which has its theoretical limitations. In this paper, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Jian Ma

Estimating mutual information (MI) from samples is a fundamental problem in statistics, machine learning, and data analysis. Recently it was shown that a popular class of non-parametric MI estimators perform very poorly for strongly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Shuyang Gao , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

In multivariate analysis, uncertainty arises from two sources: the marginal distributions of the variables and their dependence structure. Quantifying the dependence structure is crucial, as it provides valuable insights into the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-19 Swaroop Georgy Zachariah , Mohd. Arshad , Ashok Kumar Pathak