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Information theory, though originally developed for communications engineering, provides mathematical tools with broad applications across science. These tools characterize the fundamental limits of data compression and transmission in the…

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This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for Financial Information Theory by applying information-theoretic concepts such as entropy, Kullback-Leibler divergence, mutual information, normalized mutual information, and transfer…

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The extremal inequality approach plays a key role in network information theory problems. In this paper, we propose a novel monotone path construction in product probability space. The optimality of Gaussian distribution is then established…

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The entropy power inequality (EPI) provides lower bounds on the differential entropy of the sum of two independent real-valued random variables in terms of the individual entropies. Versions of the EPI for discrete random variables have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Emmanuel Abbe , Emre Telatar

We introduce an inequality which may be viewed as a generalization of both the Brascamp-Lieb inequality and its reverse (Barthe's inequality), and prove its information-theoretic (i.e.\ entropic) formulation. This result leads to a unified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Jingbo Liu , Thomas A. Courtade , Paul Cuff , Sergio Verdu

We consider the probability distribution when the monotonic function $F(X)$ of the independent variable $X$ takes the maximum or minimum expected value under the two constraints of a certain probability and a certain expected value of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Wangjun Lu , Lei Shao , Xingyu Zhang , Zhucheng Zhang , Jie Chen , Hong Tao , Xiaoguang Wang

An information-theoretic development is given for the problem of compound Poisson approximation, which parallels earlier treatments for Gaussian and Poisson approximation. Let $P_{S_n}$ be the distribution of a sum $S_n=\Sumn Y_i$ of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-05 A. D. Barbour , Oliver Johnson , Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Mokshay Madiman

Bayesian optimization is a widely used method for optimizing expensive black-box functions, with Expected Improvement being one of the most commonly used acquisition functions. In contrast, information-theoretic acquisition functions aim to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-15 Nuojin Cheng , Leonard Papenmeier , Stephen Becker , Luigi Nardi

In this paper, we review Fisher information matrices properties in weighted version and discuss inequalities/bounds on it by using reduced weight functions. In particular, an extended form of the Fisher information inequality previously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Mark Kelbert , Yuri Suhov , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Given the constant rise in quantity and quality of data obtained from neural systems on many scales ranging from molecular to systems', information-theoretic analyses became increasingly necessary during the past few decades in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Felix Effenberger

Information theory plays a central role in establishing fundamental limits on what any learning or estimation algorithm can -- and cannot -- achieve, regardless of computational power. In this chapter, we provide an introduction to these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abbas El Gamal , Maxim Raginsky

The univariate extreme value theory deals with the convergence in type of powers of elements of sequences of cumulative distribution functions on the real line when the power index gets infinite. In terms of convergence of random variables,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-04 Gane Samb Lo , Modou Ngom , Tchilabola Abozou Kpanzou , Mouminou Diallo

The variance and the entropy power of a continuous random variable are bounded from below by the reciprocal of its Fisher information through the Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound and the Stam's inequality respectively. In this note, we introduce the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Tomohiro Nishiyama

We propose the generalised Fisher information or the one-parameter extended class of the Fisher information for the case of one random variable. This new form of the Fisher information is obtained from the intriguing connection between the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Worachet Bukaew , Sikarin Yoo-Kong

The concept of weighted entropy takes into account values of different outcomes, i.e., makes entropy context-dependent, through the weight function. In this paper, we establish a number of simple inequalities for the weighted entropies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Yuri Suhov , Izabella Stuhl , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh , Mark Kelbert

We present arguments for the formulation of unified approach to different standard continuous inference methods from partial information. It is claimed that an explicit partition of information into a priori (prior knowledge) and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-12-07 Mark A. Kon , Leszek Plaskota

We try to establish a unified information theoretic approach to learning and to explore some of its applications. First, we define {\em predictive information} as the mutual information between the past and the future of a time series,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilya Nemenman

We have calculated the Tsallis entropy and Fisher information matrix (entropy) of spatially-correlated nonextensive systems, by using an analytic non-Gaussian distribution obtained by the maximum entropy method. Effects of the correlated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hideo Hasegawa

Quantifying synergy among stochastic variables is an important open problem in information theory. Information synergy occurs when multiple sources together predict an outcome variable better than the sum of single-source predictions. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Rick Quax , Omri Har-Shemesh , Peter M. A. Sloot

This paper considers an entropy-power inequality (EPI) of Costa and presents a natural vector generalization with a real positive semidefinite matrix parameter. This new inequality is proved using a perturbation approach via a fundamental…

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