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We propose new measures of shared information, unique information and synergistic information that can be used to decompose the multi-information of a pair of random variables $(Y,Z)$ with a third random variable $X$. Our measures are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Nils Bertschinger , Johannes Rauh , Eckehard Olbrich , Jürgen Jost , Nihat Ay

We analyse the common information problem for the generalised Gray-Wyner problem. We aim to explore the problem and solution in relation to the non-orthogonality among the source decoders' components. We consider a simple networked control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Makan Zamanipour

We study submodular information measures as a rich framework for generic, query-focused, privacy sensitive, and update summarization tasks. While past work generally treats these problems differently ({\em e.g.}, different models are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Vishal Kaushal , Suraj Kothawade , Ganesh Ramakrishnan , Jeff Bilmes , Himanshu Asnani , Rishabh Iyer

The characterization of information within a multiparty system is both significant and complex. This paper presents the concept of generalized conditional mutual information, along with a family of multiparty quantum mutual information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Asutosh Kumar

The rate-privacy function is defined in \cite{Asoodeh} as a tradeoff between privacy and utility in a distributed private data system in which both privacy and utility are measured using mutual information. Here, we use maximal correlation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Shahab Asoodeh , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

Estimation of information theoretic quantities such as mutual information and its conditional variant has drawn interest in recent times owing to their multifaceted applications. Newly proposed neural estimators for these quantities have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Arnab Bhattacharya , Sudipto Mukherjee , Prathosh AP , Sreeram Kannan , Himanshu Asnani

We propose a new information-theoretic bound on generalization error based on a combination of the error decomposition technique of Bu et al. and the conditional mutual information (CMI) construction of Steinke and Zakynthinou. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ruida Zhou , Chao Tian , Tie Liu

Two familiar notions of correlation are rediscovered as the extreme operating points for distributed synthesis of a discrete memoryless channel, in which a stochastic channel output is generated based on a compressed description of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Paul Cuff

Reshef & Reshef recently published a paper in which they present a method called the Maximal Information Coefficient (MIC) that can detect all forms of statistical dependence between pairs of variables as sample size goes to infinity. While…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-28 Alexander Luedtke , Linh Tran

The exact common information between a set of random variables $X_1,...,X_n$ is defined as the minimum entropy of a shared random variable that allows for the exact distributive simulation of $X_1,...,X_n$. It has been established that, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Osama Hanna , Xinlin Li , Suhas Diggavi , Christina Fragouli

We investigate the sets of joint probability distributions that maximize the average multi-information over a collection of margins. These functionals serve as proxies for maximizing the multi-information of a set of variables or the mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Thomas Merkh , Guido Montúfar

This correspondence studies the basic problem of classifications - how to evaluate different classifiers. Although the conventional performance indexes, such as accuracy, are commonly used in classifier selection or evaluation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-11-26 Yong Wang , Bao-Gang Hu

Explicit constructions of polar codes and polar lattices for both lossless and lossy Gray-Wyner problems are studied. Polar codes are employed to extract Wyner's common information of doubly symmetric binary source; polar lattices are then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Jinwen Shi , Ling Liu , Cong Ling

The safe integration of machine learning modules in decision-making processes hinges on their ability to quantify uncertainty. A popular technique to achieve this goal is conformal prediction (CP), which transforms an arbitrary base…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Matteo Zecchin , Sangwoo Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Fredrik Hellström

Quantum information measures such as the entropy and the mutual information find applications in physics, e.g., as correlation measures. Generalizing such measures based on the R\'enyi entropies is expected to enhance their scope in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Mario Berta , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Mark M. Wilde

Fields like public health, public policy, and social science often want to quantify the degree of dependence between variables whose relationships take on unknown functional forms. Typically, in fact, researchers in these fields are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Octavio César Mesner , Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

We present a short proof of a celebrated result of G\'acs and K\"orner giving sufficient and necessary condition on the joint distribution of two discrete random variables $X$ and $Y$ for the case when their mutual information matches the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Laszlo Csirmaz

Since its introduction, the partial information decomposition (PID) has emerged as a powerful, information-theoretic technique useful for studying the structure of (potentially higher-order) interactions in complex systems. Despite its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Thomas F. Varley

We consider the problem of decomposing the total mutual information conveyed by a pair of predictor random variables about a target random variable into redundant, unique and synergistic contributions. We focus on the relationship between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Pradeep Kr. Banerjee , Virgil Griffith

In Science, Reshef et al. (2011) proposed the concept of equitability for measures of dependence between two random variables. To this end, they proposed a novel measure, the maximal information coefficient (MIC). Recently a PNAS paper…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-17 A. Adam Ding , Yi Li