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R\'enyi divergences play a pivotal role in information theory, statistics, and machine learning. While several estimators of these divergences have been proposed in the literature with their consistency properties established and minimax…

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The concept of classical $f$-divergences gives a unified framework to construct and study measures of dissimilarity of probability distributions; special cases include the relative entropy and the R\'enyi divergences. Various quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-08 Fumio Hiai , Milan Mosonyi

We propose a new family of regularized R\'enyi divergences parametrized not only by the order $\alpha$ but also by a variational function space. These new objects are defined by taking the infimal convolution of the standard R\'enyi…

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We propose an extension of the classical R\'enyi divergences to quantum states through an optimization over probability distributions induced by restricted sets of measurements. In particular, we define the notion of locally-measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Tobias Rippchen , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mario Berta

The weak law of large numbers implies that, under mild assumptions on the source, the Renyi entropy per produced symbol converges (in probability) towards the Shannon entropy rate. This paper quantifies the speed of this convergence for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Maciej Skorski

In this paper we investigate a quantity called conditional entropy of ordinal patterns, akin to the permutation entropy. The conditional entropy of ordinal patterns describes the average diversity of the ordinal patterns succeeding a given…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-22 Anton M. Unakafov , Karsten Keller

Two typical fixed-length random number generation problems in information theory are considered for general sources. One is the source resolvability problem and the other is the intrinsic randomness problem. In each of these problems, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ryo Nomura , Hideki Yagi

Estimation of quantum relative entropy and its R\'{e}nyi generalizations is a fundamental statistical task in quantum information theory, physics, and beyond. While several estimators of these divergences have been proposed in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Sreejith Sreekumar , Mario Berta

We investigate the computational hardness of estimating the quantum $\alpha$-R\'enyi entropy ${\rm S}^{\tt R}_{\alpha}(\rho) = \frac{\ln {\rm Tr}(\rho^\alpha)}{1-\alpha}$ and the quantum $q$-Tsallis entropy ${\rm S}^{\tt T}_q(\rho) =…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Yupan Liu

Entropy and relative or cross entropy measures are two very fundamental concepts in information theory and are also widely used for statistical inference across disciplines. The related optimization problems, in particular the maximization…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Abhik Ghosh , Ayanendranath Basu

Shannon and Renyi entropies are quantitative measures of uncertainty in a data set. They are developed by Renyi in the context of entropy theory. These measures have been studied in the case of the multivariate t-distributions. We extend…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Salah H. Abid , Uday J. Quaez

We investigate the energy eigenstate R\'enyi entropy of generic bipartition in the fermionic, bosonic, and spin-1/2 XY chains. When the gap of the theory is large or all the momenta of the excited quasiparticles are large, the R\'enyi…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-28 Jiaju Zhang , M. A. Rajabpour

This paper considers an information bottleneck problem with the objective of obtaining a most informative representation of a hidden feature subject to a R\'enyi entropy complexity constraint. The optimal bottleneck trade-off between…

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Fawzi and Fawzi recently defined the sharp R\'enyi divergence, $D_\alpha^\#$, for $\alpha \in (1, \infty)$, as an additional quantum R\'enyi divergence with nice mathematical properties and applications in quantum channel discrimination and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Bjarne Bergh , Robert Salzmann , Nilanjana Datta

Estimating statistical properties is fundamental in statistics and computer science. In this paper, we propose a unified quantum algorithm framework for estimating properties of discrete probability distributions, with estimating R\'enyi…

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We develop novel empirical Bernstein inequalities for the variance of bounded random variables. Our inequalities hold under constant conditional variance and mean, without further assumptions like independence or identical distribution of…

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Starting from the geometrical interpretation of the R\'enyi entropy, we introduce further extensive generalizations and study their properties. In particular, we found the probability distribution function obtained by the MaxEnt principle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Giorgio Sonnino , György Steinbrecher

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

We provide the sandwiched R\'enyi divergence of order $\alpha\in(\frac{1}{2},1)$, as well as its induced quantum information quantities, with an operational interpretation in the characterization of the exact strong converse exponents of…

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