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The R\'enyi and Shannon entropies are information-theoretic measures which have enabled to formulate the position-momentum uncertainty principle in a much more adequate and stringent way than the (variance-based) Heisenberg-like relation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Pablo Sánchez-Moreno , Steeve Zozor , Jesus S. Dehesa

The entropy of probability distribution defined by Shannon has several extensions. R\'enyi entropy is one of the general extensions of Shannon entropy and is widely used in engineering, physics, and so on. On the other hand, the quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Farrukh Mukhamedov , Kyouhei Ohmura , Noboru Watanabe

R\'enyi entropy is a one-parameter generalization of Shannon entropy, which has been used in various fields of physics. Despite its wide applicability, the physical interpretations of the R\'enyi entropy are not widely known. In this paper,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-29 Misaki Ozawa , Nina Javerzat

Two families of dependence measures between random variables are introduced. They are based on the R\'enyi divergence of order $\alpha$ and the relative $\alpha$-entropy, respectively, and both dependence measures reduce to Shannon's mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Amos Lapidoth , Christoph Pfister

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability for quantum states, and plays a central role in quantum information theory. The family of Renyi entropies generalizes to Renyi relative entropies that include as special cases most entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-12 Nima Lashkari

We introduce a variant of the R\'enyi entropy definition that aligns it with the well-known H\"older mean: in the new formulation, the r-th order R\'enyi Entropy is the logarithm of the inverse of the r-th order H\"older mean. This brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Francisco José Valverde-Albacete , Carmen Peláez-Moreno

We consider the maximum entropy problems associated with R\'enyi $Q$-entropy, subject to two kinds of constraints on expected values. The constraints considered are a constraint on the standard expectation, and a constraint on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Jean-François Bercher

Numerous entropy-type characteristics (functionals) generalizing R\'enyi entropy are widely used in mathematical statistics, physics, information theory, and signal processing for characterizing uncertainty in probability distributions and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-28 David Källberg , Nikolaj Leonenko , Oleg Seleznjev

We study repeated independent Blackwell experiments; standard examples include drawing multiple samples from a population, or performing a measurement in different locations. In the baseline setting of a binary state of nature, we compare…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Xiaosheng Mu , Luciano Pomatto , Philipp Strack , Omer Tamuz

Entropy is a measure of self-information which is used to quantify losses. Entropy was developed in thermodynamics, but is also used to compare probabilities based on their deviating information content. Corresponding model uncertainty is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Alois Pichler , Ruben Schlotter

The R\'enyi entropy is a generalization of the Shannon entropy and is widely used in mathematical statistics and applied sciences for quantifying the uncertainty in a probability distribution. We consider estimation of the quadratic R\'enyi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-08 David Källberg , Nikolaj Leonenko , Oleg Seleznjev

Quantum information processing is limited, in practice, to efficiently implementable operations. This motivates the study of quantum divergences that preserve their operational meaning while faithfully capturing these computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Álvaro Yángüez , Thomas A. Hahn , Jan Kochanowski

An uncertainty relation for the R\'enyi entropies of conjugate quantum observables is used to obtain a strong Heisenberg limit of the form ${\rm RMSE} \geq f(\alpha)/(\langle N\rangle+\frac12)$, bounding the root mean square error of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Michael J. W. Hall

The redundancy for universal lossless compression of discrete memoryless sources in Campbell's setting is characterized as a minimax R\'enyi divergence, which is shown to be equal to the maximal $\alpha$-mutual information via a generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Semih Yagli , Yücel Altuğ , Sergio Verdú

We leverage the Gibbs inequality and its natural generalization to R\'enyi entropies to derive closed-form parametric expressions of the optimal lower bounds of $\rho$th-order guessing entropy (guessing moment) of a secret taking values on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Julien Béguinot , Olivier Rioul

Audenaert and Datta recently introduced a two-parameter family of relative R\'{e}nyi entropies, known as the $\alpha$-$z$-relative R\'{e}nyi entropies. The definition of the $\alpha$-$z$-relative R\'{e}nyi entropy unifies all previously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Mingyan Simon Lin , Marco Tomamichel

In this paper, we first introduce and define several new information divergences in the space of transition matrices of finite Markov chains which measure the discrepancy between two Markov chains. These divergences offer natural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Youjia Wang , Michael C. H. Choi

The aim of this work is to provide bounds connecting two probability measures of the same event using R\'enyi $\alpha$-Divergences and Sibson's $\alpha$-Mutual Information, a generalization of respectively the Kullback-Leibler Divergence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar , Ibrahim Issa

Recently, two extensions of Wyner's common information\textemdash exact and R\'enyi common informations\textemdash were introduced respectively by Kumar, Li, and El Gamal (KLE), and the present authors. The class of common information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Lei Yu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

The Renyi entropies constitute a family of information measures that generalizes the well-known Shannon entropy, inheriting many of its properties. They appear in the form of unconditional and conditional entropies, relative entropies or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Martin Müller-Lennert , Frédéric Dupuis , Oleg Szehr , Serge Fehr , Marco Tomamichel