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We consider the problem of approximating the empirical Shannon entropy of a high-frequency data stream under the relaxed strict-turnstile model, when space limitations make exact computation infeasible. An equivalent measure of entropy is…

Computation · Statistics 2013-04-18 Peter Clifford , Ioana Ada Cosma

We introduce a variant of the R\'enyi entropy definition that aligns it with the well-known H\"older mean: in the new formulation, the r-th order R\'enyi Entropy is the logarithm of the inverse of the r-th order H\"older mean. This brings…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Francisco José Valverde-Albacete , Carmen Peláez-Moreno

The minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion has been successfully used in fields such as parameter estimation, system identification and the supervised machine learning. There is in general no explicit expression for the optimal MEE estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Badong Chen , Guangmin Wang , Nanning Zheng , Jose C. Principe

We propose a new way of defining entropy of a system, which gives a general form which may be nonextensive as Tsallis entropy, but is linearly dependent on component entropies, like Renyi entropy, which is extensive. This entropy has a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-10-11 Fariel Shafee

This paper presents a novel theoretical study of the general problem of multiple source adaptation using the notion of Renyi divergence. Our results build on our previous work [12], but significantly broaden the scope of that work in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Yishay Mansour , Mehryar Mohri , Afshin Rostamizadeh

The Matrix-based Renyi's entropy enables us to directly measure information quantities from given data without the costly probability density estimation of underlying distributions, thus has been widely adopted in numerous statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-17 Yuxin Dong , Tieliang Gong , Shujian Yu , Chen Li

A task is randomly drawn from a finite set of tasks and is described using a fixed number of bits. All the tasks that share its description must be performed. Upper and lower bounds on the minimum $\rho$-th moment of the number of performed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-07 Christoph Bunte , Amos Lapidoth

This paper studies the complexity of estimating Renyi divergences of discrete distributions: $p$ observed from samples and the baseline distribution $q$ known \emph{a priori}. Extending the results of Acharya et al. (SODA'15) on estimating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Maciej Skorski

Two new relative entropy quantities, called the min- and max-relative entropies, are introduced and their properties are investigated. The well-known min- and max- entropies, introduced by Renner, are obtained from these. We define a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 Nilanjana Datta

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

The Renyi entropy is a generalization of the usual concept of entropy which depends on a parameter q. In fact, Renyi entropy is closely related to free energy. Suppose we start with a system in thermal equilibrium and then suddenly divide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 John C. Baez

The R\'enyi and Shannon entropies are information-theoretic measures which have enabled to formulate the position-momentum uncertainty principle in a much more adequate and stringent way than the (variance-based) Heisenberg-like relation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-24 Pablo Sánchez-Moreno , Steeve Zozor , Jesus S. Dehesa

The Renyi entropy plays an essential role in quantum information theory. We study the continuity estimation of the Renyi entropy. An inequality relating the Renyi entropy difference of two quantum states to their trace norm distance is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Zhihua Chen , Zhihao Ma , Ismail Nikoufar , Shaoming Fei

The Renyi entropy with a free Renyi parameter $q$ is the most justified form of information entropy, and the Tsallis entropy may be regarded as a linear approximation to the Renyi entropy when $q\simeq 1$. When $q\to 1$, both entropies go…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei G. Bashkirov

A novel lossless source coding paradigm applies to problems of unreliable lossless channels with low bit rates, in which a vital message needs to be transmitted prior to termination of communications. This paradigm can be applied to Alfred…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Michael B. Baer

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Jian-Jia Weng , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

We study the problem of maximizing R{\'e}nyi entropy of order $2$ (equivalently, minimizing the index of coincidence) over the set of joint distributions with prescribed marginals. A closed-form optimizer is known under a feasibility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Pierre Jean-Claude Robert Bertrand

The entropy accumulation theorem, and its subsequent generalized version, is a powerful tool in the security analysis of many device-dependent and device-independent cryptography protocols. However, it has the drawback that the finite-size…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Amir Arqand , Thomas A. Hahn , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan

We demonstrate that the condensed matter quantum systems encompassing two reservoirs connected by a junction permit a natural definition of flows of conserved measures, Renyi entropies. Such flows are similar to the flows of physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yuli V. Nazarov

Entropies are fundamental measures of uncertainty with central importance in information theory and statistics and applications across all the quantitative sciences. Under a natural set of operational axioms, the most general form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Roberto Rubboli , Erkka Haapasalo , Marco Tomamichel