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This work presents an upper-bound to value that the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence can reach for a class of probability distributions called quantum distributions (QD). The aim is to find a distribution $U$ which maximizes the KL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Vincenzo Bonnici

The Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence is a fundamental equation of information theory that quantifies the proximity of two probability distributions. Although difficult to understand by examining the equation, an intuition and understanding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Jonathon Shlens

We introduce the concept of \textit{defect relative entropy} as a measure of distinguishability within the space of defects. We compute the defect relative entropy for conformal/topological defects, deriving a universal formula in conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Mostafa Ghasemi

Quantum entanglement and quantum entropy are crucial concepts in the study of multipartite quantum systems. In this work we show how the notion of concurrence vector, re-expressed in a particularly useful form, provides new insights and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 A. Bernal , J. A. Casas , J. M. Moreno

A $\lambda$-calculus is introduced in which all programs can be evaluated in probabilistic polynomial time and in which there is sufficient structure to represent sequential cryptographic constructions and adversaries for them, even when…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ugo Dal Lago , Zeinab Galal , Giulia Giusti

The necessary information to distinguish a local inhomogeneous mass density field from its spatial average on a compact domain of the universe can be measured by relative information entropy. The Kullback-Leibler (KL) formula arises very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-28 Viktor G. Czinner , Filipe C. Mena

In this paper, we derive a new generalisation of the strong subadditivity of the entropy to the setting of general conditional expectations onto arbitrary finite-dimensional von Neumann algebras. The latter inequality, which we call…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Ivan Bardet , Angela Capel , Cambyse Rouzé

We present a general approach to quantum entanglement and entropy that is based on algebras of observables and states thereon. In contrast to more standard treatments, Hilbert space is an emergent concept, appearing as a representation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 A. P. Balachandran , T. R. Govindarajan , Amilcar R. de Queiroz , A. F. Reyes-Lega

Quantum information theory, particularly its entropic formulations, has made remarkable strides in characterizing quantum systems and tasks. However, a critical dimension remains underexplored: computational efficiency. While classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Noam Avidan , Thomas A. Hahn , Joseph M. Renes , Rotem Arnon

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability for quantum states, and plays a central role in quantum information theory. The family of Renyi entropies generalizes to Renyi relative entropies that include as special cases most entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-12 Nima Lashkari

A new canonical divergence is put forward for generalizing an information-geometric measure of complexity for both, classical and quantum systems. On the simplex of probability measures it is proved that the new divergence coincides with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Domenico Felice , Stefano Mancini , Nihat Ay

Distance measures between quantum states like the trace distance and the fidelity can naturally be defined by optimizing a classical distance measure over all measurement statistics that can be obtained from the respective quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-09 Mario Berta , Omar Fawzi , Marco Tomamichel

Gathering the most information by picking the least amount of data is a common task in experimental design or when exploring an unknown environment in reinforcement learning and robotics. A widely used measure for quantifying the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-17 Johannes Kulick , Robert Lieck , Marc Toussaint

A recently introduced measure of Boolean functions complexity--disjunc\-tive complexity (DC)--is compared with other complexity measures: the space complexity of streaming algorithms and the complexity of nondeterministic branching programs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Nikita Ivanov , Alexander Rubtsov , Michael Vyalyi

Predictive inference requires balancing statistical accuracy against informational complexity, yet the choice of complexity measure is usually imposed rather than derived. We treat econometric objects as predictive rules, mappings from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-16 Nicholas G. Polson , Daniel Zantedeschi

Convergence properties of Shannon Entropy are studied. In the differential setting, it is shown that weak convergence of probability measures, or convergence in distribution, is not enough for convergence of the associated differential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Francisco J. Piera , Patricio Parada

This paper studies the notion of computational entropy. Using techniques from convex optimization, we investigate the following problems: (a) Can we derandomize the computational entropy? More precisely, for the computational entropy, what…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Maciej Skórski

We study the difficulty of computing topological entropy of subshifts subjected to mixing restrictions. This problem is well-studied for multidimensional subshifts of finite type : there exists a threshold in the irreducibility rate where…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Silvère Gangloff , Benjamin Hellouin de Menibus

The operational characterization of quantum coherence is the corner stone in the development of resource theory of coherence. We introduce a new coherence quantifier based on max-relative entropy. We prove that max-relative entropy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Kaifeng Bu , Uttam Singh , Shao-Ming Fei , Arun Kumar Pati , Junde Wu

We initiate a rigorous study of computational entanglement theory, inspired by the emerging usefulness of ideas from quantum information theory in computational complexity. We define new operational computational measures of entanglement --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Rotem Arnon , Zvika Brakerski , Thomas Vidick