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It is well known that in Information Theory and Machine Learning the Kullback-Leibler divergence, which extends the concept of Shannon entropy, plays a fundamental role. Given an {\it a priori} probability kernel $\hat{\nu}$ and a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-04 Artur O. Lopes , Jairo K. Mengue

Information theory is a mathematical theory of learning with deep connections with topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, statistical physics, and biological evolution. Many primers on information theory paint a broad picture with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Philip Chodrow

R\'enyi divergences play a pivotal role in information theory, statistics, and machine learning. While several estimators of these divergences have been proposed in the literature with their consistency properties established and minimax…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Sreejith Sreekumar , Kengo Kato

We propose a new family of regularized R\'enyi divergences parametrized not only by the order $\alpha$ but also by a variational function space. These new objects are defined by taking the infimal convolution of the standard R\'enyi…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-16 Jeremiah Birrell , Yannis Pantazis , Paul Dupuis , Markos A. Katsoulakis , Luc Rey-Bellet

We show finite-size bounds on the deviation of the optimal type II error from its asymptotic value in the quantum hypothesis testing problem of Stein's lemma with composite null-hypothesis. The proof is based on some simple properties of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-07 Milán Mosonyi

Quantum generalizations of R\'enyi's entropies are a useful tool to describe a variety of operational tasks in quantum information processing. Two families of such generalizations turn out to be particularly useful: the Petz quantum R\'enyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Raban Iten

In this work, we present formulations for regularized Kullback-Leibler and R\'enyi divergences via the Alpha Log-Determinant (Log-Det) divergences between positive Hilbert-Schmidt operators on Hilbert spaces in two different settings,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-19 Minh Ha Quang

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

There are many information and divergence measures exist in the literature on information theory and statistics. The most famous among them are Kullback-Leibler (1951) relative information and Jeffreys (1951) J-divergence. Sibson (1969)…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Inder Jeet Taneja

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

Recently, a new notion of quantum R\'enyi divergences has been introduced by M\"uller-Lennert, Dupuis, Szehr, Fehr and Tomamichel, J.Math.Phys. 54:122203, (2013), and Wilde, Winter, Yang, Commun.Math.Phys. 331:593--622, (2014), that has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 Milán Mosonyi

The Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is a foundational measure for comparing probability distributions. Yet in multivariate settings, its single value often obscures the underlying reasons for divergence, conflating mismatches in individual…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-06 William Cook

This paper is twofold. In the first part, we present a refinement of the R\'enyi Entropy Power Inequality (EPI) recently obtained in \cite{BM16}. The proof largely follows the approach in \cite{DCT91} of employing Young's convolution…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Jiange Li

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

The goal of this short note is to discuss the relation between Kullback--Leibler divergence and total variation distance, starting with the celebrated Pinsker's inequality relating the two, before switching to a simple, yet (arguably) more…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Clément L. Canonne

It is known that the variance and entropy of quantum observables decompose into intrinsically quantum and classical contributions. Here a general method of constructing quantum-classical decompositions of resources such as uncertainty is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Michael J. W. Hall

The R{\'e}nyi entropy is one of the important information measures that generalizes Shannon's entropy. The quantum R{\'e}nyi entropy has a fundamental role in quantum information theory, therefore, bounding this quantity is of vital…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 Hadi Reisizadeh , S. Mahmoud Manjegani

In this paper, we study the approximation and estimation of $s$-concave densities via R\'enyi divergence. We first show that the approximation of a probability measure $Q$ by an $s$-concave densities exists and is unique via the procedure…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Qiyang Han , Jon A. Wellner

Universal hash functions map the output of a source to random strings over a finite alphabet, aiming to approximate the uniform distribution on the set of strings. A classic result on these functions, called the Leftover Hash Lemma, gives…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Madhura Pathegama , Alexander Barg

The R\'enyi information measures are characterized in terms of their Shannon counterparts, and properties of the former are recovered from first principle via the associated properties of the latter. Motivated by this characterization, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Ofer Shayevitz