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Information theory plays a central role in establishing fundamental limits on what any learning or estimation algorithm can -- and cannot -- achieve, regardless of computational power. In this chapter, we provide an introduction to these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abbas El Gamal , Maxim Raginsky

The package \textsf{clayton} is designed to be intuitive, user-friendly, and efficient. It offers a wide range of copula models, including Archimedean, Elliptical, and Extreme. The package is implemented in pure \textsf{Python}, making it…

Computation · Statistics 2023-06-06 Alexis Boulin

We propose a novel approach framed in terms of information theory and entropy to tackle the issue of conspiracy theories propagation. We start with the report of an event (such as 9/11 terroristic attack) represented as a series of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-28 Natasa Golo , Serge Galam

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models by allocating additional inference compute to explore the solution space. However, existing parallel TTS methods typically keep branches isolated during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xinglin Wang , Hao Lin , Shaoxiong Feng , Peiwen Yuan , Yiwei Li , Jiayi Shi , Yueqi Zhang , Chuyi Tan , Ji Zhang , Boyuan Pan , Yao Hu , Kan Li

A large amount of data is produced every second from modern information systems such as mobile devices, the world wide web, Internet of Things, social media, etc. Analysis and mining of this massive data requires a lot of advanced tools and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Rising Odegua , Festus Ikpotokin

This is the draft version of a textbook, which aims to introduce the quantum information science viewpoints on condensed matter physics to graduate students in physics (or interested researchers). We keep the writing in a self-consistent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-27 Bei Zeng , Xie Chen , Duan-Lu Zhou , Xiao-Gang Wen

The traditional approach to the quantitative study of segregation is to employ indices that are selected by ``desirable properties''. Here, we detail how information theory underpins entropy-based indices and demonstrate how desirable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-15 Boris Barron , Yunus A. Kinkhabwala , Chriss Hess , Matthew Hall , Itai Cohen , Tomás A. Arias

The field of Information Theory is founded on Claude Shannon's seminal ideas relating to entropy. Nevertheless, his well-known avoidance of meaning (Shannon, 1948) still persists to this day, so that Information Theory remains poorly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Philip Tetlow , Dinesh Garg , Leigh Chase , Mark Mattingley-Scott , Nicholas Bronn , Kugendran Naidoo , Emil Reinert

Surveys are an important research tool, providing unique measurements on subjective experiences such as sentiment and opinions that cannot be measured by other means. However, because survey data is collected from a self-selected group of…

Computation · Statistics 2023-07-14 Tal Sarig , Tal Galili , Roee Eilat

This tutorial studies relationships between differential privacy and various information-theoretic measures by using several selective articles. In particular, we present how these connections can provide new interpretations for the privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Ayse Unsal , Melek Onen

This article introduces CluBear, a Python-based open-source package for interactive massive data analysis. The key feature of CluBear is that it enables users to conduct convenient and interactive statistical analysis of massive data with…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-12-29 Ke Xu , Yingqiu Zhu , Yijing Liu , Hansheng Wang

Developing intuition about quantum information theory problems is difficult, as is verifying or ruling-out of hypothesis. We present a Matlab package intended to provide the QIT community with a new and powerful tool-set for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-06 Shai Machnes

Logical information theory is the quantitative version of the logic of partitions just as logical probability theory is the quantitative version of the dual Boolean logic of subsets. The resulting notion of information is about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 David Ellerman

The capacity to integrate information is a prominent feature of biological and cognitive systems. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) provides a mathematical approach to quantify the level of integration in a system, yet its computational…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-31 Miguel Aguilera , Ezequiel Di Paolo

A physical field has an infinite number of degrees of freedom since it has a field value at each location of a continuous space. Therefore, it is impossible to know a field from finite measurements alone and prior information on the field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Torsten A. Enßlin

Classical and quantum information theory are simply explained. To be more specific it is clarified why Shannon entropy is used as measure of classical information and after a brief review of quantum mechanics it is possible to demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos P. Papadakos

In these decades, it has been revealed that there is rich information-theoretic structure in thermodynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems in both the classical and quantum regimes. This has led to the fruitful interplay among statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Takahiro Sagawa

Appealing to several multivariate information measures---some familiar, some new here---we analyze the information embedded in discrete-valued stochastic time series. We dissect the uncertainty of a single observation to demonstrate how the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Ryan G. James , Christopher J. Ellison , James P. Crutchfield

Many information sources are considered into data fusion in order to improve the decision in terms of uncertainty and imprecision. For each technique used for data fusion, the asumption on independance is usually made. We propose in this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Mouloud Kharoune , Arnaud Martin

To formulate a universal framework of information theory is beneficial. This study proves that the sextuple model of the objective information theory (OIT) is a sufficient and necessary condition for discussing information with four basic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jianfeng Xu