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The weak law of large numbers implies that, under mild assumptions on the source, the Renyi entropy per produced symbol converges (in probability) towards the Shannon entropy rate. This paper quantifies the speed of this convergence for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Maciej Skorski

We provide a rigorous first-principle derivation of the non-additive Tsallis' entropy by employing the Chaitin-Kolmogorov algorithmic information theory. By applying non-local restrictive rules on the string formation (grammar), we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-05 Airton Deppman

Entropy has emerged as a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and widely accepted quantitative measure of uncertainty across different disciplines. A unified understanding of entropy measures, supported by a detailed review of their theoretical…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-03-21 Naveen Kumar , Ambesh Dixit , Vivek Vijay

Information entropies give a genuine way to characterize quantitatively an incompatibility in quantum measurements. Together with the Shannon entropy, few families of parametrized entropies have found use in various questions. It is also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

We define an entropy based on a chosen governing probability distribution. If a certain kind of measurements follow such a distribution it also gives us a suitable scale to study it with. This scale will appear as a link function that is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-10-24 Peter Sunehag

Shannon entropy is often a quantity of interest to linguists studying the communicative capacity of human language. However, entropy must typically be estimated from observed data because researchers do not have access to the underlying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Aryaman Arora , Clara Meister , Ryan Cotterell

Shannon information entropy is a natural measure of probability (de)localization and thus (un)predictability in various procedures of data analysis for model systems. We pay particular attention to links between the Shannon entropy and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piotr Garbaczewski

Entropy is a measure of heterogeneity widely used in applied sciences, often when data are collected over space. Recently, a number of approaches has been proposed to include spatial information in entropy. The aim of entropy is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

We consider Shannon entropy, Fisher information, R\'enyi entropy, and Tsallis entropy to study the quantum droplet phase in Bose-Einstein condensates. In the beyond mean-field description, the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with Lee-Huang-Yang…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-04 Sk Siddik , Golam Ali Sekh

This paper derives bounds for two omnipresent information theoretic measures, the Shannon entropy and its complementary dual, the extropy. Based on a large size data set from a logconcave model, the said bounds are obtained for the entropy…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Konstantinos Zografos

We study an entropy measure for quantum systems that generalizes the von Neumann entropy as well as its classical counterpart, the Gibbs or Shannon entropy. The entropy measure is based on hypothesis testing and has an elegant formulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-19 F. Dupuis , L. Kraemer , P. Faist , J. M. Renes , R. Renner

Data partitioning that maximizes/minimizes the Shannon entropy, or more generally the R\'enyi entropy is a crucial subroutine in data compression, columnar storage, and cardinality estimation algorithms. These partition algorithms can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Aryan Esmailpour , Sanjay Krishnan , Stavros Sintos

We demonstrate and discuss the process of gaining information and show an example in which some specific way of gaining information about an object results in the Tsallis form of entropy rather than in the Shannon one.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Grzegorz Wilk , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

We compare the elementary theories of Shannon information and Kolmogorov complexity, the extent to which they have a common purpose, and where they are fundamentally different. We discuss and relate the basic notions of both theories:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Peter Grunwald , Paul Vitanyi

We conclude a sequence of work by giving near-optimal sketching and streaming algorithms for estimating Shannon entropy in the most general streaming model, with arbitrary insertions and deletions. This improves on prior results that obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Nicholas J. A. Harvey , Jelani Nelson , Krzysztof Onak

This article proposes a new two-parameter generalized entropy, which can be reduced to the Tsallis and the Shannon entropy for specific values of its parameters. We develop a number of information-theoretic properties of this generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Supriyo Dutta , Shigeru Furuichi , Partha Guha

We introduce a novel entropy-related function, \textit{non-repeatability}, designed to capture dynamical behaviors in complex systems. Its normalized form, \textit{mutability}, has been previously applied in statistical physics as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-04 Eugenio E. Vogel , Francisco J. Peña , G. Saravia , P. Vargas

The paper suggests the concepts of an upper entropy and a lower entropy. We propose a new axiomatic definition, namely, upper entropy axioms, inspired by axioms of metric spaces, and also formulate lower entropy axioms. We also develop weak…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Jin-Li Guo , Qi Suo

We define a one-parameter family of entropies, each assigning a real number to any probability measure on a compact metric space (or, more generally, a compact Hausdorff space with a notion of similarity between points). These entropies…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Tom Leinster , Emily Roff

Shannon's entropy and other entropy-based concepts are derived from the new, more general concept of relative divergence of one "grading' function on a linearly ordered set from another such function. The definition of relative divergence…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Alexander Dukhovny