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Noise is conventionally viewed as a severe problem in diverse fields, e.g., engineering, learning systems. However, this paper aims to investigate whether the conventional proposition always holds. It begins with the definition of task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Xuelong Li

A new framework is introduced for examining and evaluating the fundamental limits of lossless data compression, that emphasizes genuinely non-asymptotic results. The {\em sample complexity} of compressing a given source is defined as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Terence Viaud , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Spectral properties of an arbitrary matrix can be characterized by the entropy of its rescaled singular values. Any quantum operation can be described by the associated dynamical matrix or by the corresponding superoperator. The entropy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-27 Wojciech Roga , Zbigniew Puchała , Łukasz Rudnicki , Karol Życzkowski

Two maximization problems of R\'enyi entropy rate are investigated: the maximization over all stochastic processes whose marginals satisfy a linear constraint, and the Burg-like maximization over all stochastic processes whose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Christoph Bunte , Amos Lapidoth

In this work, we introduce a notion of reachability entropy to characterize the smallest data rate which is sufficient enough to enforce reach-while-stay specification. We also define data rates of coder-controllers that can enforce this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Mahendra Singh Tomar , Majid Zamani

We show that the conditional min-entropy Hmin(A|B) of a bipartite state rho_AB is directly related to the maximum achievable overlap with a maximally entangled state if only local actions on the B-part of rho_AB are allowed. In the special…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Robert Koenig , Renato Renner , Christian Schaffner

The performance of an error correcting code is evaluated by its error probability, rate, and en/decoding complexity. The performance of a series of codes is evaluated by, as the block lengths approach infinity, whether their error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Hsin-Po Wang

We compute the entanglement entropy in a 2+1 dimensional topological order in the presence of gapped boundaries. Specifically, we consider entanglement cuts that cut through the boundaries. We argue that based on general considerations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Ce Shen , Jiaqi Lou , Ling-Yan Hung

Shannon entropy is the shortest average codeword length a lossless compressor can achieve by encoding i.i.d. symbols. However, there are cases in which the objective is to minimize the \textit{exponential} average codeword length, i.e. when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Andrea Somazzi , Paolo Ferragina , Diego Garlaschelli

Classification is a ubiquitous and fundamental problem in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with extensive efforts dedicated to developing more powerful classifiers and larger datasets. However, the classification task is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Mario Franco , Gerardo Febres , Nelson Fernández , Carlos Gershenson

In Tokenization and the Noiseless Channel (Zouhar et al., 2023a), R\'enyi efficiency is suggested as an intrinsic mechanism for evaluating a tokenizer: for NLP tasks, the tokenizer which leads to the highest R\'enyi efficiency of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Marco Cognetta , Vilém Zouhar , Sangwhan Moon , Naoaki Okazaki

In the index coding problem a sender holds a message $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ and wishes to broadcast information to $n$ receivers in a way that enables the $i$th receiver to retrieve the $i$th bit $x_i$. Every receiver has prior side information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Ishay Haviv

Distributions of abundances or frequencies play an important role in many fields of science, from biology to sociology, as does the R\'enyi entropy, which measures the diversity of a statistical ensemble. We derive a mathematical relation…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-26 Thierry Mora , Aleksandra M. Walczak

This paper investigates the problem of guessing subject to distortion, which was introduced by Arikan and Merhav. While the primary concern of the previous study was asymptotic analysis, our primary concern is non-asymptotic analysis. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Shota Saito , Toshiyasu Matsushima

The principle of maximum entropy is a broadly applicable technique for computing a distribution with the least amount of information possible while constrained to match empirically estimated feature expectations. However, in many real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Kenneth Bogert , Yikang Gui , Prashant Doshi

A natural measure for the amount of quantum information that a physical system E holds about another system A = A_1,...,A_n is given by the min-entropy Hmin(A|E). Specifically, the min-entropy measures the amount of entanglement between E…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Frédéric Dupuis , Omar Fawzi , Stephanie Wehner

We compute R\'enyi entropies for the statistics of a noisy simultaneous observation of two complementary observables in two-dimensional quantum systems. The relative amount of uncertainty between two states depends on the uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Alfredo Luis , Gustavo Martín Bosyk , Mariela Portesi

Information plays an important role in our understanding of the physical world. We hence propose an entropic measure of information for any physical theory that admits systems, states and measurements. In the quantum and classical world,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Anthony J. Short , Stephanie Wehner

The entropy of probability distribution defined by Shannon has several extensions. R\'enyi entropy is one of the general extensions of Shannon entropy and is widely used in engineering, physics, and so on. On the other hand, the quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Farrukh Mukhamedov , Kyouhei Ohmura , Noboru Watanabe

In computer vision, it is often observed that formulating regression problems as a classification task often yields better performance. We investigate this curious phenomenon and provide a derivation to show that classification, with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Shihao Zhang , Linlin Yang , Michael Bi Mi , Xiaoxu Zheng , Angela Yao