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Characterization of entropy functions is of fundamental importance in information theory. By imposing constraints on their Shannon outer bound, i.e., the polymatroidal region, one obtains the faces of the region and entropy functions on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Kaizhe He , Qi Chen

Non Performing Asset(NPA) has been in a serious attention by banks over the past few years. NPA cause a huge loss to the banks hence it becomes an extremely critical step in deciding which loans have the capabilities to become an NPA and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Ambarish Moharil , Nikhil Sonavane , Chirag Kedia , Mansimran Singh Anand

Shannon Entropy is the preeminent tool for measuring the level of uncertainty (and conversely, information content) in a random variable. In the field of communications, entropy can be used to express the information content of given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Bill Kay , Audun Myers , Thad Boydston , Emily Ellwein , Cameron Mackenzie , Iliana Alvarez , Erik Lentz

Entropy numbers and covering numbers of sets and operators are well known geometric notions, which found many applications in various fields of mathematics, statistics, and computer science. Their values for finite-dimensional embeddings…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-05 Marta Kossaczká , Jan Vybíral

We give some applications of closure operators in category of groups and link them with the join problem of subnormal subgroups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vishvajit V. S. Gautam

Shannon entropy is often a quantity of interest to linguists studying the communicative capacity of human language. However, entropy must typically be estimated from observed data because researchers do not have access to the underlying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Aryaman Arora , Clara Meister , Ryan Cotterell

The tractability of certain CSPs for dense or sparse instances is known from the 90s. Recently, the densification and the sparsification of CSPs were formulated as computational tasks and the systematical study of their computational…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Rustem Takhanov

Entropies must correspond to mean values for them to be measurable. The Shannon entropy corresponds to the weighted arithmetic mean, whereas the Renyi entropy corresponds to the exponential mean. These means refer to code lengths, which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-25 B. H. Lavenda

In this paper, some general properties of Shannon information measures are investigated over sets of probability distributions with restricted marginals. Certain optimization problems associated with these functionals are shown to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević , Ivan Stanojević , Vojin Šenk

For a closed-loop control system with a digital channel between the sensor and the controller, the notion of invariance entropy quantifies the smallest average rate of information transmission above which a given compact subset of the state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-13 Mahendra Singh Tomar , Christoph Kawan , Pushpak Jagtap , Majid Zamani

The entropy region is a fundamental object in information theory. An outer bound for the entropy region is defined by a minimal set of Shannon-type inequalities called elemental inequalities also referred to as the Shannon region. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Hitika Tiwari , Satyajit Thakor

In this article, we determine the complexity function (configurational entropy) of jammed configurations of Rydberg atoms on a one-dimensional lattice. Our method consists of providing asymptotics for the number of jammed configurations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Tomislav Došlić , Mate Puljiz , Stjepan Šebek , Josip Žubrinić

This paper focuses on the extreme-value problem for Shannon entropy of the joint distribution with given marginals. It is proved that the minimum-entropy coupling must be of order-preserving, while the maximum-entropy coupling coincides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Ya-Jing Ma , Feng Wang , Xian-Yuan Wu , Kai-Yuan Cai

We introduce the theory of operator monotone functions and employ it to derive a new inequality relating the quantum relative entropy and the quantum conditional entropy. We present applications of this new inequality and in particular we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. B. Plenio , S. Virmani , P. Papadopoulos

We define the entropy operator as the negative of the logarithm of the density matrix, give a prescription for extracting its thermodynamically measurable part, and discuss its dynamics. For an isolated system we derive the first, second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-06 E. Solano-Carrillo , A. J. Millis

The asymptotic behavior for entropy numbers of general Fourier multiplier operators of multiple series with respect to an abstract complete orthonormal system $\{\phi_{\textbf{m}}\}_{\textbf{m}\in \mathbb{N}^d_0}$ on a probability space and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Sergio Andrés Córdoba Pareja , Jéssica Milaré , Sergio A. Tozoni

We study a closure operator derived from the matrix endofunctor on the category of rings with unity. We investigate the invariance of various ring-theoretic properties under this operator. A key finding is the decisive nature of this…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Frank Murphy-Hernandez , Francisco Raggi , Jose Rios

Moment-closure methods are popular tools to simplify the mathematical analysis of stochastic models defined on networks, in which high dimensional joint distributions are approximated (often by some heuristic argument) as functions of lower…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-05-25 Tim Rogers

Building on work of Kontsevich, we introduce a definition of the entropy of a finite probability distribution in which the "probabilities" are integers modulo a prime p. The entropy, too, is an integer mod p. Entropy mod p is shown to be…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-03 Tom Leinster

We propose a definition for the entropy of capacities defined on lattices. Classical capacities are monotone set functions and can be seen as a generalization of probability measures. Capacities on lattices address the general case where…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-11-14 Aoi Honda , Michel Grabisch