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Given two independent point processes and a certain rule for matching points between them, what is the fraction of matched points over infinitely long streams? In many application contexts, e.g., secure networking, a meaningful matching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Stefano Marano , Vincenzo Matta , Ting He , Lang Tong

We consider probabilistic theories in which the most elementary system, a two-dimensional system, contains one bit of information. The bit is assumed to be contained in any complete set of mutually complementary measurements. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 Caslav Brukner , Anton Zeilinger

Entropy governs molecular self-assembly, phase transitions, and material stability, yet remains challenging to quantify and directly control in molecular systems. Here, we demonstrate that the computable information density (CID), a data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ashley Z. Guo , Kaelyn Chang , Nicholas J. Corrente

The information bottleneck (IB) principle has been suggested as a way to analyze deep neural networks. The learning dynamics are studied by inspecting the mutual information (MI) between the hidden layers and the input and output. Notably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Stephan Sloth Lorenzen , Christian Igel , Mads Nielsen

This paper is the part-II of the previous paper and introduces the world of Yuen's concept. In the theory of cryptology, the Shannon impossibility theorem states that the upper bound of the security of a plaintext against a ciphertext-only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Osamu Hirota

While information theory has been introduced to characterize the fundamental limitations of control and filtering for a few decades, the existing information-theoretic methods are indirect and cumbersome for analyzing the limitations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Neng Wan , Dapeng Li , Naira Hovakimyan

We derive a new entropic quantum uncertainty relation involving min-entropy. The relation is tight and can be applied in various quantum-cryptographic settings. Protocols for quantum 1-out-of-2 Oblivious Transfer and quantum Bit Commitment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-19 Ivan B. Damgaard , Serge Fehr , Renato Renner , Louis Salvail , Christian Schaffner

The uncertainty principle can be expressed in entropic terms, also taking into account the role of entanglement in reducing uncertainty. The information exclusion principle bounds instead the correlations that can exist between the outcomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 Patrick J. Coles , Marco Piani

Conformal Prediction (CP) is a distribution-free uncertainty estimation framework that constructs prediction sets guaranteed to contain the true answer with a user-specified probability. Intuitively, the size of the prediction set encodes a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Alvaro H. C. Correia , Fabio Valerio Massoli , Christos Louizos , Arash Behboodi

Information entropic measures such as Fisher information, Shannon entropy, Onicescu energy and Onicescu Shannon entropy of a symmetric double-well potential are calculated in both position and momentum space. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-26 Neetik Mukherjee , Arunesh Roy , Amlan K. Roy

We define classical-quantum multiway channels for transmission of classical information, after recent work by Allahverdyan and Saakian. Bounds on the capacity region are derived in a uniform way, which are analogous to the classically known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Andreas Winter

The uncertainty principle restricts potential information one gains about physical properties of the measured particle. However, if the particle is prepared in entanglement with a quantum memory, the corresponding entropic uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-10 Yunlong Xiao , Naihuan Jing , Xianqing Li-Jost

Different platforms for quantum computation are currently being developed with a steadily increasing number of physical qubits. To make today's devices practical for quantum software engineers, novel programming tools with maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Michael Cubeddu , Will Finigan , Thomas Lively , Johannes Flick , Prineha Narang

Ever since entanglement was identified as a computational and cryptographic resource, researchers have sought efficient ways to tell whether a given density matrix represents an unentangled, or separable, state. This paper gives the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lawrence M. Ioannou

In a software system it is possible to quantify the amount of information that is leaked or corrupted by analysing the flows of information present in the source code. In a cyber-physical system, information flows are not only present at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Eric Rothstein Morris , Carlos G. Murguia , Martín Ochoa

This work develops tools to understand how quantum information spreads, scrambles, and is reshaped by measurements in many-body systems. First, I study scrambling and pseudorandomness in the Brownian Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Anastasiia Tiutiakina

To infer information flow in any network of agents, it is important first and foremost to establish causal temporal relations between the nodes. Practical and automated methods that can infer causality are difficult to find, and the subject…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ali Tehrani-Saleh , Christoph Adami

Explicit characterization of the capacity region of communication networks is a long standing problem. While it is known that network coding can outperform routing and replication, the set of feasible rates is not known in general.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Satyajit Thakor , Alex Grant , Terence Chan

This paper is on developing some computer-assisted proof methods involving non-classical inequalities for Shannon entropy. Two areas of the applications of information inequalities are studied: Secret sharing schemes and hat guessing games.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Emirhan Gürpınar

In quantitative information flow we say that program $Q$ is "at least as secure as" $P$ just when the amount of secret information flowing from $Q$ is never more than flows from $P$, with of course a suitable quantification of "flow". This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-19 N. Bordenabe , A. McIver , C Morgan , T. Rabehaja