English
Related papers

Related papers: Information Decomposition on Structured Space

200 papers

This set of notes is intended for a short course aiming to provide an (almost) self-contained and (almost) elementary introduction to the topic of Information Geometry (IG) of the probability simplex. Such a course can be considered an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Giovanni Pistone

We propose a decomposition of information flow into housekeeping and excess components for autonomous bipartite systems described by Markov jump processes. We introduce this decomposition using the geometric structure of probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yoh Maekawa , Ryuna Nagayama , Kohei Yoshimura , Sosuke Ito

Based on the principles of information theory, measure theory, and theoretical computer science, we introduce a signal deconvolution method with a wide range of applications to coding theory, particularly in zero-knowledge one-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hector Zenil , Felipe S. Abrahão , Luan C. S. M. Ozelim

Structured optimization uses a prescribed set of atoms to assemble a solution that fits a model to data. Polarity, which extends the familiar notion of orthogonality from linear sets to general convex sets, plays a special role in a simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Zhenan Fan , Halyun Jeong , Yifan Sun , Michael P. Friedlander

The partial information decomposition (PID) and its extension integrated information decomposition ($\Phi$ID) are promising frameworks to investigate information phenomena involving multiple variables. An important limitation of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abel Jansma , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Fernando E. Rosas

We consider the classical problem of discrete distribution estimation using i.i.d. samples in a novel scenario where additional side information is available on the distribution. In large alphabet datasets such as text corpora, such side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Haricharan Balasundaram , Andrew Thangaraj

Distributed systems, such as biological and artificial neural networks, process information via complex interactions engaging multiple subsystems, resulting in high-order patterns with distinct properties across scales. Investigating how…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aaron J. Gutknecht , Fernando E. Rosas , David A. Ehrlich , Abdullah Makkeh , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Michael Wibral

Collective organization in matter plays a significant role in its expressed physical properties. Typically, it is detected via an order parameter, appropriately defined for each given system's observed emergent patterns. Recent developments…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 V. S. Vijayaraghavan , R. G. James , J. P. Crutchfield

Information geometry is an important tool to study statistical models. There are some important examples in statistical models which are regarded as warped products. In this paper, we study information geometry of warped products. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Yasuaki Fujitani

How best to quantify the information of an object, whether natural or artifact, is a problem of wide interest. A related problem is the computability of an object. We present practical examples of a new way to address this problem. By…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-14 Fionn Murtagh

In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, modelling, and ultimately controlling complex systems: systems comprised of a large number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Thomas F. Varley

Complex systems, from the human brain to the global economy, are made of multiple elements that interact in such ways that the behaviour of the `whole' often seems to be more than what is readily explainable in terms of the `sum of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-28 Pedro A. M. Mediano , Fernando E. Rosas , Andrea I Luppi , Robin L. Carhart-Harris , Daniel Bor , Anil K. Seth , Adam B. Barrett

The information decomposition problem requires an additive decomposition of the mutual information between the input and target variables into nonnegative terms. The recently introduced solution to this problem, Information Attribution,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tomáš Kroupa , Sara Vannucci , Tomáš Votroubek

The manifold of empirical mean values of statistical data ad infinitum has a geometric shape that depends on the probability measure that governs the generating model. Large deviation theory produces entropy functions that depend on both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Viswa Virinchi Muppirala , Hong Qian

Collective systems that self-organise to maximise the group's ability to collect and distribute information can be successful in environments with high spatial and temporal variation. Such organisations are abundant in nature, as sharing…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-28 R. S. Walker , G. Ramos-Fernandez , D. Boyer , S. E. Smith-Aguilar , X. O'Neill , M. J. Silk

Low-rank matrix approximations, such as the truncated singular value decomposition and the rank-revealing QR decomposition, play a central role in data analysis and scientific computing. This work surveys and extends recent research which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-29 Nathan Halko , Per-Gunnar Martinsson , Joel A. Tropp

We develop a system-theoretic framework for the structured analysis of distributed optimization algorithms with decomposable cost functions. We model such algorithms as a network of interacting dynamical systems and derive tests for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Aron Karakai , Jaap Eising , Andrea Martinelli , Florian Dörfler

A central challenge in analyzing multivariate interactions within complex systems is to decompose how multiple inputs jointly determine an output. Existing approaches generally operate on observed probability distributions and can conflate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Clifford Bohm , Vincent R. Ragusa , Arend Hintze , Charles Ofria , Emily Dolson , Christoph Adami

In this paper have written the results of the information analysis of structures. The obtained information estimation (IE) are based on an entropy measure of C. Shannon. Obtained IE is univalent both for the non-isomorphic and for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Alexander Shaydurov

During a spontaneous change, a macroscopic physical system will evolve towards a macro-state with more realizations. This observation is at the basis of the Statistical Mechanical version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and it provides…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mengjie Zu , Arunkumar Bupathy , Daan Frenkel , Srikanth Sastry