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Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Cambyse Rouze , Nilanjana Datta

In this note, we present an information diffusion inequality derived from an elementary argument, which gives rise to a very general Fano-type inequality. The latter unifies and generalizes the distance-based Fano inequality and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta

As the mobile application landscape expands, wireless networks are tasked with supporting various connection profiles, including real-time communications and delay-sensitive traffic. Among many ensuing engineering challenges is the need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Henry Pfister

It is well known that the mutual information between two random variables can be expressed as the difference of two relative entropies that depend on an auxiliary distribution, a relation sometimes referred to as the golden formula. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Wei Yang , Austin Collins , Giuseppe Durisi , Yury Polyanskiy , H. Vincent Poor

We study the entanglement in the ground state of a chain of free spinless fermions with a single side-coupled impurity. We find a logarithmic scaling for the entanglement entropy of a segment neighboring the impurity. The prefactor of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Viktor Eisler , Savannah Sterling Garmon

This paper investigates the problem of synthesizing joint distributions in the finite-length regime. For a fixed blocklength $n$ and an upper bound on the distribution approximation $\epsilon$, we prove a capacity result for fixed-length…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Giulia Cervia , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

In this work the information loss in deterministic, memoryless systems is investigated by evaluating the conditional entropy of the input random variable given the output random variable. It is shown that for a large class of systems the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Bernhard C. Geiger , Gernot Kubin

The code that combines channel estimation and error protection has received general attention recently, and has been considered a promising methodology to compensate multi-path fading effect. It has been shown by simulations that such code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-18 Chia-Lung Wu , Po-Ning Chen , Yunghsiang S. Han , Ming-Hsin Kuo

The Fano factor, an observable quantifying fluctuations of product generation by a single enzyme, can reveal information about the underlying reaction scheme. A lower bound on this Fano factor that depends on the thermodynamic affinity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Andre C. Barato , Udo Seifert

We derive upper bounds on the rate of transmission of classical information over quantum channels by block codes with a given blocklength and error probability, for both entanglement-assisted and unassisted codes, in terms of a unifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 William Matthews , Stephanie Wehner

Empirical coordination offers a way to understand how agents can coordinate actions under communication constraints. This paper investigates the finite blocklength regime of this problem, where the encoder and decoder aim to produce a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Olivier Massicot , Giulia Cervia , Maël Le Treust

This letter introduces a novel channel coding design framework for short-length codewords that permits balancing the tradeoff between the bit error rate floor and waterfall region by modifying a single real-valued parameter. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mikel Hernaez , Pedro M. crespo , Javier Del Ser

This paper investigates achievable information rates and error exponents of mismatched decoding when the channel belongs to the class of channels that are close to the decoding metric in terms of relative entropy. For both discrete- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Priyanka Patel , Francesc Molina , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

Uniform continuity bounds on entropies are generally expressed in terms of a single distance measure between a pair of probability distributions or quantum states, typically, the total variation distance or trace distance. However, if an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-09 Michael G. Jabbour , Nilanjana Datta

Consider communication over a binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channel with low density parity check (LDPC) codes and maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding. The replica method of spin glass theory allows to conjecture an analytic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shrinivas Kudekar , Nicolas Macris

We study the properties of error correcting codes for noise models in the presence of asymmetries and/or correlations by means of the entanglement fidelity and the code entropy. First, we consider a dephasing Markovian memory channel and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 C. Cafaro , S. L'Innocente , C. Lupo , S. Mancini

The problem of lossless data compression with side information available to both the encoder and the decoder is considered. The finite-blocklength fundamental limits of the best achievable performance are defined, in two different versions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

This work provides data-processing and majorization inequalities for $f$-divergences, and it considers some of their applications to coding problems. This work also provides tight bounds on the R\'{e}nyi entropy of a function of a discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Igal Sason

We study the following semi-deterministic setting of the joint source-channel coding problem: a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a. individual sequence) is transmitted via a memoryless channel, using delay-limited encoder and decoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Neri Merhav

Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities generalize Shannon's chain rule for entropy as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mokshay Madiman , Prasad Tetali