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This paper deals with arbitrarily distributed finite-power input signals observed through an additive Gaussian noise channel. It shows a new formula that connects the input-output mutual information and the minimum mean-square error (MMSE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Dongning Guo , Shlomo Shamai , Sergio Verdu

Fundamental relations between information and estimation have been established in the literature for the continuous-time Gaussian and Poisson channels, in a long line of work starting from the classical representation theorems by Duncan and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Jiantao Jiao , Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman

In continuation to a recent work on the statistical--mechanical analysis of minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation in Gaussian noise via its relation to the mutual information (the I-MMSE relation), here we propose a simple and more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

The I-MMSE formula connects two important quantities in information theory and estimation theory: the mutual information and the minimum mean-squared error (MMSE). It states that in a scalar Gaussian channel, the derivative of the mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Minh-Toan Nguyen

A notion of directed information between two continuous-time processes is proposed. A key component in the definition is taking an infimum over all possible partitions of the time interval, which plays a role no less significant than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Tsachy Weissman , Young-Han Kim , Haim H. Permuter

We investigate the problem of representing information measures in terms of the moments of the underlying random variables. First, we derive polynomial approximations of the conditional expectation operator. We then apply these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Wael Alghamdi , Flavio P. Calmon

Fundamental relations between information and estimation have been established in the literature for the discrete-time Gaussian and Poisson channels. In this work, we demonstrate that such relations hold for a much larger class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Jiantao Jiao , Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman

We consider mean squared estimation with lookahead of a continuous-time signal corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. We show that the mutual information rate function, i.e., the mutual information rate as function of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman , Yair Carmon , Shlomo Shamai

I present several new relations between mutual information (MI) and statistical estimation error for a system that can be regarded simultaneously as a communication channel and as an estimator of an input parameter. I first derive a…

Applications · Statistics 2010-10-08 Sudhakar Prasad

Unveiling a fundamental link between information theory and estimation theory, the I-MMSE relationship by Guo, Shamai and Verdu~\cite{gu05}, together with its numerous extensions, has great theoretical significance and various practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Guangyue Han , Jian Song

We consider a general stochastic input-output dynamical system with output evolving in time as the solution to a functional coefficients, It\^{o}'s stochastic differential equation, excited by an input process. This general class of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-08 Francisco J. Piera , Patricio Parada

Mutual information (MI) is one of the most general ways to measure relationships between random variables, but estimating this quantity for complex systems is challenging. Denoising diffusion models have recently set a new bar for density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Longxuan Yu , Xing Shi , Xianghao Kong , Tong Jia , Greg Ver Steeg

Efficient information processing is crucial for both living organisms and engineered systems. The mutual information rate, a core concept of information theory, quantifies the amount of information shared between the trajectories of input…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-01 Manuel Reinhardt , Age J. Tjalma , Anne-Lena Moor , Christoph Zechner , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Unveiling a fundamental link between information theory and estimation theory, the I-MMSE relation by Guo, Shamai and Verdu~\cite{gu05}, together with its numerous extensions, has great theoretical significance and various practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Guangyue Han , Jian Song

In this paper, we study Sibson's $\alpha$-mutual information in the context of the additive Gaussian noise channel. While the classical case $\alpha = 1$ is well understood and admits deep connections to estimation-theoretic quantities,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mohammad Milanian , Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

For vector Gaussian channels, a precise differential connection between channel capacity and a quantity termed normalized optimal detection error (NODE) is presented. Then, this C-NODE relationship is extended to continuous-time Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Edwin Hammerich

We consider the estimation of a signal from the knowledge of its noisy linear random Gaussian projections. A few examples where this problem is relevant are compressed sensing, sparse superposition codes, and code division multiple access.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Jean Barbier , Nicolas Macris , Mohamad Dia , Florent Krzakala

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

This paper considers the model of an arbitrary distributed signal x observed through an added independent white Gaussian noise w, y=x+w. New relations between the minimal mean square error of the non-causal estimator and the likelihood…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Moshe Zakai

In this paper, we generalize the fundamental relation between the mutual information and the minimum mean squared error (MMSE) by Guo, Shamai, and Verdu [1] to K-User Gaussian channels. We prove that the derivative of the multiuser mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Samah A. M. Ghanem
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