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We seek an entropy estimator for discrete distributions with fully empirical accuracy bounds. As stated, this goal is infeasible without some prior assumptions on the distribution. We discover that a certain information moment assumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Doron Cohen , Aryeh Kontorovich , Aaron Koolyk , Geoffrey Wolfer

A recently explored interesting quantity in AdS/CFT, dubbed 'residual entropy', characterizes the amount of collective ignorance associated with either boundary observers restricted to finite time duration, or bulk observers who lack access…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Veronika E. Hubeny

In this paper, we study gap-dependent regret guarantees for risk-sensitive reinforcement learning based on the entropic risk measure. We propose a novel definition of sub-optimality gaps, which we call cascaded gaps, and we discuss their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yingjie Fei , Ruitu Xu

We discuss the information entropy for a general open pointer-based simultaneous measurement and show how it is bound from below. This entropic uncertainty bound is a direct consequence of the structure of the entropy and can be obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Raoul Heese , Matthias Freyberger

Let $X$ be a discrete random variable with support $S$ and $f : S \to S^\prime$ be a bijection. Then it is well-known that the entropy of $X$ is the same as the entropy of $f(X)$. This entropy preservation property has been well-utilized to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chandra Nair , Balaji Prabhakar , Devavrat Shah

Entropy, its production, and its change in a dynamical system can be understood from either a fully stochastic dynamic description or from a deterministic dynamics exhibiting chaotic behavior. By taking the former approach based on the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Hong Qian , Zhongwei Shen

This article addresses the issue of the proof of the entropy power inequality (EPI), an important tool in the analysis of Gaussian channels of information transmission, proposed by Shannon. We analyse continuity properties of the mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Mark Kelbert , Yuri Suhov

In its continuous version, the entropy functional measuring the information content of a given probability density may be plagued by a "measure" problem that results from improper weighting of phase space. This issue is addressed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-08 P. Maynar , E. Trizac

We present convergence estimates of two types of greedy algorithms in terms of the metric entropy of underlying compact sets. In the first part, we measure the error of a standard greedy reduced basis method for parametric PDEs by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Yuwen Li , Jonathan Siegel

The entropy is a measure of uncertainty that plays a central role in information theory. When the distribution of the data is unknown, an estimate of the entropy needs be obtained from the data sample itself. We propose a semi-parametric…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-06 Stéphane Robin , Luca Scrucca

We consider the problem of encoding a finite set of vectors into a small number of bits while approximately retaining information on the angular distances between the vectors. By deriving improved variance bounds related to binary Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Sjoerd Dirksen , Alexander Stollenwerk

We present a method of estimating the rate of entropy production in underdamped dynamics by decomposing it into contributions originating in different non-equilibrium effects. Specifically, a non-zero average velocity, a non-thermal width…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-01 Mario A. Ciampini , Jakob Rieser , Nikolai Kiesel , Andreas Dechant

For a closed-loop control system with a digital channel between the sensor and the controller, the notion of invariance entropy quantifies the smallest average rate of information transmission above which a given compact subset of the state…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-13 Mahendra Singh Tomar , Christoph Kawan , Pushpak Jagtap , Majid Zamani

Entropy stable methods have become increasingly popular in the field of computational fluid dynamics. They often work by satisfying some form of a discrete entropy inequality: a discrete form of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Schemes which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Brian Christner , Jesse Chan

Reliable data-driven estimation of Shannon entropy from small data sets, where the number of examples is potentially smaller than the number of possible outcomes, is a critical matter in several applications. In this paper, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gabriel F. A. Bastos , Jugurta Montalvão

Following a growing number of studies that, over the past 15 years, have established entropy inequalities via ideas and tools from additive combinatorics, in this work we obtain a number of new bounds for the differential entropy of sums,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Rupert Li , Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We propose a generalization of the quantum entropy power inequality involving conditional entropies. For the special case of Gaussian states, we give a proof based on perturbation theory for symplectic spectra. We discuss some implications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Robert Koenig

The distributed remote source coding (so-called CEO) problem is studied in the case where the underlying source, not necessarily Gaussian, has finite differential entropy and the observation noise is Gaussian. The main result is a new lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Krishnan Eswaran , Michael Gastpar

Estimating the entropy rate of discrete time series is a challenging problem with important applications in numerous areas including neuroscience, genomics, image processing and natural language processing. A number of approaches have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-22 Ioannis Papageorgiou , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Relative entropy is a powerful measure of the dissimilarity between two statistical field theories in the continuum. In this work, we study the relative entropy between Gaussian scalar field theories in a finite volume with different masses…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-28 Markus Schröfl , Stefan Floerchinger