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Entropic uncertainty relations in a finite dimensional Hilbert space are investigated. Making use of the majorization technique we derive explicit lower bounds for the sum of R\'enyi entropies describing probability distributions associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Zbigniew Puchała , Łukasz Rudnicki , Karol Życzkowski

The de Bruijn identity states that Fisher information is equal to a half of the time-derivative of Shannon differential entropy along heat flow. In the same spirit, a generalized version of Fisher information, which we term the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Hao Wu , Lei Yu

In this article, we discuss the problem of establishing relations between information measures assessed for network structures. Two types of entropy based measures namely, the Shannon entropy and its generalization, the R\'{e}nyi entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-24 Lavanya Sivakumar , Matthias Dehmer

In this note, we provide analytic expressions for the R\'enyi common information of orders in $(1,\infty)$ for the doubly symmetric binary source (DSBS). Until now, analytic expressions for the R\'enyi common information of all orders in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lei Yu

This paper considers an information bottleneck problem with the objective of obtaining a most informative representation of a hidden feature subject to a R\'enyi entropy complexity constraint. The optimal bottleneck trade-off between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

For nonlinear supervised learning models, assessing the importance of predictor variables or their interactions is not straightforward because it can vary in the domain of the variables. Importance can be assessed locally with sensitivity…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-14 Topi Paananen , Michael Riis Andersen , Aki Vehtari

In this work, we prove uniform continuity bounds for entropic quantities related to the sandwiched R\'enyi divergences such as the sandwiched R\'enyi conditional entropy. We follow three different approaches: The first one is the "almost…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Andreas Bluhm , Ángela Capel , Paul Gondolf , Tim Möbus

Change of measure inequalities translate divergences between probability measures into explicit bounds on event probabilities, and play an important role in deriving probabilistic guarantees in learning theory, information theory, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yanxiao Liu , Yijun Fan , Deniz Gündüz

This paper introduces the variational R\'enyi bound (VR) that extends traditional variational inference to R\'enyi's alpha-divergences. This new family of variational methods unifies a number of existing approaches, and enables a smooth…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-31 Yingzhen Li , Richard E. Turner

Distance measures between quantum states like the trace distance and the fidelity can naturally be defined by optimizing a classical distance measure over all measurement statistics that can be obtained from the respective quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Mario Berta , Omar Fawzi , Marco Tomamichel

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

A classic definition of multisensory integration (MI) has been proposed as ``the presence of a (statistically) significant change in the response to a cross-modal stimulus complex compared to unimodal stimuli''. However, this general…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-17 Hans Colonius , Adele Diederich

Recently, information theoretic analysis has become a popular framework for understanding the generalization behavior of deep neural networks. It allows a direct analysis for stochastic gradient/Langevin descent (SGD/SGLD) learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-03 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Hong Chen , Chen Li

Information measures can be constructed from R\'enyi divergences much like mutual information from Kullback-Leibler divergence. One such information measure is known as Sibson $\alpha$-mutual information and has received renewed attention…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar , Ibrahim Issa

We present a systematic study of the geometric R\'enyi divergence (GRD), also known as the maximal R\'enyi divergence, from the point of view of quantum information theory. We show that this divergence, together with its extension to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-29 Kun Fang , Hamza Fawzi

This study examines sharp bounds on Arimoto's conditional R\'enyi entropy of order $\beta$ with a fixed another one of distinct order $\alpha \neq \beta$. Arimoto inspired the relation between the R\'enyi entropy and the $\ell_{r}$-norm of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Yuta Sakai , Ken-ichi Iwata

We investigate the R\'enyi entropy of independent sums of integer valued random variables through Fourier theoretic means, and give sharp comparisons between the variance and the R\'enyi entropy, for Poisson-Bernoulli variables. As…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Mokshay Madiman , James Melbourne , Cyril Roberto

Smooth Csisz\'ar $f$-divergences can be expressed as integrals over so-called hockey stick divergences. This motivates a natural quantum generalization in terms of quantum Hockey stick divergences, which we explore here. Using this recipe,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Christoph Hirche , Marco Tomamichel

Configurational entropy, or complexity, plays a critical role in characterizing disordered systems such as glasses, yet its measurement often requires significant computational resources. Recently, R\'enyi entropy, a one-parameter…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-27 Nina Javerzat , Eric Bertin , Misaki Ozawa

Entropy is the measure of uncertainty in any data and is adopted for maximisation of mutual information in many remote sensing operations. The availability of wide entropy variations motivated us for an investigation over the suitability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-25 Dr. S. K. Katiyar , Arun P. V.