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Suppose $X$ is a uniformly distributed $n$-dimensional binary vector and $Y$ is obtained by passing $X$ through a binary symmetric channel with crossover probability $\alpha$. A recent conjecture by Courtade and Kumar postulates that…

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In this paper we consider an application of the recently proposed quantum hashing technique for computing Boolean functions in the quantum communication model. The combination of binary functions on non-binary quantum hash function is done…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Alexander Vasiliev

Suppose $\XX{N}$ is a uniformly distributed $N$-dimensional binary vector and $\YY{N}$ is obtained by passing $\XX{N}$ through a binary symmetric channel with crossover probability $\alpha$. Recently, Courtade and Kumar postulates that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Mustafa Kesal

The mutual information between two jointly distributed random variables $X$ and $Y$ is a functional of the joint distribution $P_{XY},$ which is sometimes difficult to handle or estimate. A coarser description of the statistical behavior of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yanjun Han , Or Ordentlich , Ofer Shayevitz

Estimating mutual correlations between random variables or data streams is essential for intelligent behavior and decision-making. As a fundamental quantity for measuring statistical relationships, mutual information has been extensively…

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Partial information decomposition has recently found applications in biological signal processing and machine learning. Despite its impacts, the decomposition was introduced through an informal and heuristic route, and its exact operational…

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Mutual information is a theoretically grounded metric for quantifying cellular signaling pathways. However, its measurement demands characterization of both input and output distributions, limiting practical applications. Here, we present…

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Reconstructing the structural connectivity between interacting units from observed activity is a challenge across many different disciplines. The fundamental first step is to establish whether or to what extent the interactions between the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-02 Elliot A. Martin , Jaroslav Hlinka , Jörn Davidsen

Due to the scarcity of quantitative details about biological phenomena, quantitative modeling in systems biology can be compromised, especially at the subcellular scale. One way to get around this is qualitative modeling because it requires…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-22 Arnaud Poret , Claudio Monteiro Sousa , Jean-Pierre Boissel

Multivariate mutual information provides a conceptual framework for characterizing higher-order interactions in complex systems. Two well-known measures of multivariate information---total correlation and dual total correlation---admit a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Kyle Reing , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

With the success of self-supervised representations, researchers seek a better understanding of the information encapsulated within a representation. Among various interpretability methods, we focus on classification-based linear probing.…

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We consider collocated wireless sensor networks, where each node has a Boolean measurement and the goal is to compute a given Boolean function of these measurements. We first consider the worst case setting and study optimal block…

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In network science, researchers often use mutual information to understand the difference between network partitions produced by community detection methods. Here we extend the use of mutual information to covers, that is, the cases where a…

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Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen

Life depends as much on the flow of information as on the flow of energy. Here we review the many efforts to make this intuition precise. Starting with the building blocks of information theory, we explore examples where it has been…

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Because of the kinematic reversibility of the Stokes equation, fluid mixing at the microscale requires an interplay between advection and diffusion. Here we introduce mutual information between particle positions before and after mixing as…

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We address the practical problems of estimating the information relations that characterize large networks. Building on methods developed for analysis of the neural code, we show that reliable estimates of mutual information can be obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Noam Slonim , Gurinder S. Atwal , Gasper Tkacik , William Bialek

Information maximization has been investigated as a possible mechanism of learning governing the self-organization that occurs within the neural systems of animals. Within the general context of models of neural systems bidirectionally…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-18 Takashi Hayakawa , Toshio Aoyagi

Boolean networks are an important class of computational models for molecular interaction networks. Boolean canalization, a type of hierarchical clustering of the inputs of a Boolean function, has been extensively studied in the context of…

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