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With the advent of massive data outputs at a regular rate, admittedly, signal processing technology plays an increasingly key role. Nowadays, signals are not merely restricted to physical sources, they have been extended to digital sources…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Yi Lu

Entropic quantifiers of states lie at the cornerstone of the quantum information theory. While a quantum state can be abstracted as a device that only has outputs, the most general quantum device is a quantum channel that also has inputs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xiao Yuan

Adaptiveness is a key principle in information processing including statistics and machine learning. We investigate the usefulness of adaptive methods in the framework of asymptotic binary hypothesis testing, when each hypothesis represents…

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We propose a unifying picture where the notion of generalized entropy is related to information theory by means of a group-theoretical approach. The group structure comes from the requirement that an entropy be well defined with respect to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-13 Gabriele Sicuro , Piergiulio Tempesta

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) convolutional codes have been shown to exhibit excellent performance under low-complexity belief-propagation decoding [1], [2]. This phenomenon is now termed threshold saturation via spatial coupling. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Santhosh Kumar , Andrew J. Young , Nicolas Macris , Henry D. Pfister

Channels with synchronization errors, exhibiting deletion and insertion errors, find practical applications in DNA storage, data reconstruction, and various other domains. Presence of insertions and deletions render the channel with memory,…

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This paper introduces a quantitative generalization of the ``more capable'' comparison of broadcast channels, which is termed ``more capable with advantage''. Some basic properties are demonstrated (including tensorization on product…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Donald Kougang-Yombi , Jan Hązła

In the previous papers (Kui\'{c} et al. in Found Phys 42:319-339, 2012; Kui\'{c} in arXiv:1506.02622, 2015), it was demonstrated that applying the principle of maximum information entropy by maximizing the conditional information entropy,…

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In this paper, we investigate the quantization of the output of a binary input discrete memoryless channel that maximizing the mutual information between the input and the quantized output under an entropy-constrained of the quantized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen

We consider communication over binary-input memoryless output-symmetric channels using low-density parity-check codes and message-passing decoding. The asymptotic (in the length) performance of such a combination for a fixed number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-12 Satish Babu Korada , Ruediger Urbanke

The organization of high-dimensional probability spaces is a fundamental problem at the intersection of statistical physics and information theory. Here, we analyze the distributions populating level surfaces of the probability simplex…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Bautista Arenaza , Sebastián Risau-Gusman , Inés Samengo , Damián G. Hernández

The fundamental goal of information theory is to characterize complex operational tasks using efficiently computable information quantities, Shannon's capacity formula being the prime example of this. However, many tasks in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Salman Beigi , Roberto Rubboli , Marco Tomamichel

A mathematical framework for information-theoretic analysis is established, with a new viewpoint of describing transmitted messages and communication channels by the nonlinear expectation theory, beyond the framework of classical…

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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

A lossy data compression scheme for uniformly biased Boolean messages is investigated via statistical mechanics techniques. We utilize tree-like committee machine (committee tree) and tree-like parity machine (parity tree) whose transfer…

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We formulate the entropy of a quantized artificial neural network as a differentiable function that can be plugged as a regularization term into the cost function minimized by gradient descent. Our formulation scales efficiently beyond the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Enzo Tartaglione , Stéphane Lathuilière , Attilio Fiandrotti , Marco Cagnazzo , Marco Grangetto

We investigate the concept of entropy in probabilistic theories more general than quantum mechanics, with particular reference to the notion of information causality recently proposed by Pawlowski et. al. (arXiv:0905.2992). We consider two…

Constellation shaping is a practical and effective technique to improve the performance and the rate adaptivity of optical communication systems. In principle, it could also be used to mitigate the impact of nonlinear effects, possibly…

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In this paper, we focus on the unsupervised setting for structure learning of deep neural networks and propose to adopt the efficient coding principle, rooted in information theory and developed in computational neuroscience, to guide the…

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