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Entropy is a measure of self-information which is used to quantify losses. Entropy was developed in thermodynamics, but is also used to compare probabilities based on their deviating information content. Corresponding model uncertainty is…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Alois Pichler , Ruben Schlotter

Entropy quantifies the number of bits required to store objects under certain given assumptions. While this is a well established concept for strings, in the context of tries the state-of-the-art regarding entropies is less developed. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Lorenzo Carfagna , Carlo Tosoni

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

Entanglement R\'enyi-$\alpha$ entropy is an entanglement measure. It generalizes the entanglement of formation, and they coincide when $\alpha$ tends to 1. We derive analytical lower and upper bounds for the entanglement R\'enyi-$\alpha$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Wei Song , Lin Chen , Zhuo-Liang Cao

We extend the Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) framework to the R\'enyi information-theoretic regime, utilizing Sibson's $\alpha$-mutual information to characterize the fundamental limits under distortion and perception constraints. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiahui Wei , Marios Kountouris

Tight bounds on the block entropy of patterns of sequences generated by independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) sources are derived. A pattern of a sequence is a sequence of integer indices with each index representing the order of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-14 Gil I. Shamir

Subword tokenization is a key part of many NLP pipelines. However, little is known about why some tokenizer and hyperparameter combinations lead to better downstream model performance than others. We propose that good tokenizers lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Vilém Zouhar , Clara Meister , Juan Luis Gastaldi , Li Du , Mrinmaya Sachan , Ryan Cotterell

Lower bounds for the R\'enyi entropies of sums of independent random variables taking values in cyclic groups of prime order under permutations are established. The main ingredients of our approach are extended rearrangement inequalities in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-20 Mokshay Madiman , Liyao Wang , Jae Oh Woo

We present a general method for calculating R\'enyi entropies in the ground state of a one-dimensional critical system with mixed open boundaries, for an interval starting at one of its ends. In the conformal field theory framework, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

We investigate the longest common substring problem for encoded sequences and its asymptotic behaviour. The main result is a strong law of large numbers for a re-scaled version of this quantity, which presents an explicit relation with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Adriana Coutinho , Rodrigo Lambert , Jérôme Rousseau

We study the distribution of the order of a random permutation of $[n]$ through the lens of R\'enyi entropy. In particular, we obtain an asymptotic for the R\'enyi $q$-entropy of the order in the full range $1 \leq q \leq \infty$. For $q >…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Adrian Beker

In many high-impact applications, it is important to ensure the quality of output of a machine learning algorithm as well as its reliability in comparison with the complexity of the algorithm used. In this paper, we have initiated a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Katarina Doctor , Tong Mao , Hrushikesh Mhaskar

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

In this paper we study certain properties of R\'{e}nyi entropy functionals $H_\alpha(\mathcal{P})$ on the space of probability distributions over $\mathbb{Z}_+$. Primarily, continuity and convergence issues are addressed. Some properties…

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

The analogues of Arimoto's definition of conditional R\'enyi entropy and R\'enyi mutual information are explored for abstract alphabets. These quantities, although dependent on the reference measure, have some useful properties similar to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Gautam Aishwarya , Mokshay Madiman

R\'enyi divergence is related to R\'enyi entropy much like information divergence (also called Kullback-Leibler divergence or relative entropy) is related to Shannon's entropy, and comes up in many settings. It was introduced by R\'enyi as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-28 Tim van Erven , Peter Harremoës

A relative entropy code for a source $X \sim P_X$ is a stochastic code that encodes random samples from a prescribed $P_{Y \mid X}$ using as few bits as possible. A generalisation of entropy coding, it is a standard result that the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gergely Flamich , Spencer Hill

Maximization of an expensive, unimodal function under random observations has been an important problem in hyperparameter tuning. It features expensive function evaluations (which means small budgets) and a high level of noise. We develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Xiaohe Luo , Warren B. Powell

The conventional channel resolvability problem refers to the determination of the minimum rate required for an input process so that the output distribution approximates a target distribution in either the total variation distance or the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Lei Yu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We prove the large deviation principle for several entropy and cross entropy estimators based on return times and waiting times on shift spaces over finite alphabets. We consider shift-invariant probability measures satisfying some…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Noé Cuneo , Renaud Raquépas