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We obtain formulas for Petz-R\'enyi and Umegaki relative entropy from the idea of distribution of a positive selfadjoint operator. Classical results on R\'enyi and Kullback-Leibler divergences are applied to obtain new results and new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 George Androulakis , Tiju Cherian John

Properties of scalar quantization with $r$th power distortion and constrained R\'enyi entropy of order $\alpha\in (0,1)$ are investigated. For an asymptotically (high-rate) optimal sequence of quantizers, the contribution to the R\'enyi…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Wolfgang Kreitmeier , Tamas Linder

We study the relative entropy between the empirical estimate of a discrete distribution and the true underlying distribution. If the minimum value of the probability mass function exceeds an $\alpha > 0$ (i.e. when the true underlying…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Alankrita Bhatt , Ankit Pensia

This study examines sharp bounds on Arimoto's conditional R\'enyi entropy of order $\beta$ with a fixed another one of distinct order $\alpha \neq \beta$. Arimoto inspired the relation between the R\'enyi entropy and the $\ell_{r}$-norm of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Yuta Sakai , Ken-ichi Iwata

We consider the maximum entropy problems associated with R\'enyi $Q$-entropy, subject to two kinds of constraints on expected values. The constraints considered are a constraint on the standard expectation, and a constraint on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Jean-François Bercher

We consider the two-dimensional (2d) Ising model on a infinitely long cylinder and study the probabilities $p_i$ to observe a given spin configuration $i$ along a circular section of the cylinder. These probabilities also occur as…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-02 Jean-Marie Stéphan , Grégoire Misguich , Vincent Pasquier

We express the joint R\'enyi entropy of progressively censored order statistics in terms of an incomplete integral of the hazard function, and provide a simple estimate of the joint R\'enyi entropy of progressively Type-II censored data.…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-03-25 Akram Kohansal , Saeid Rezakhah

A lower bound on the probability $P(0<X<\delta)$ for all real $\delta>0$ and all random variables $X$ with log-concave p.d.f.'s such that $EX=0$ and $EX^2=1$ is obtained.

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Iosif Pinelis

A new sharp inequality featuring the differential R\'enyi entropy, the R\'enyi divergence and the R\'enyi cross-entropy of a pair of probability density functions is established. The equality is reached when one of the probability density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , David Puertas-Centeno

We prove stability estimates for the Shannon-Stam inequality (also known as the entropy-power inequality) for log-concave random vectors in terms of entropy and transportation distance. In particular, we give the first stability estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ronen Eldan , Dan Mikulincer

We consider a two-parameter family of R\'enyi relative entropies $D_{\alpha,z}(\rho||\sigma)$ that are quantum generalisations of the classical R\'enyi divergence $D_{\alpha}(p||q)$. This family includes many known relative entropies (or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert , Nilanjana Datta

This article investigates sharp comparison of moments for various classes of random variables appearing in a geometric context. In the first part of our work we find the optimal constants in the Khintchine inequality for random vectors…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-11 Alexandros Eskenazis , Piotr Nayar , Tomasz Tkocz

Yet another simple proof of the entropy power inequality is given, which avoids both the integration over a path of Gaussian perturbation and the use of Young's inequality with sharp constant or R\'enyi entropies. The proof is based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Olivier Rioul

The $\alpha$-sandwiched R\'enyi divergence satisfies the data processing inequality, i.e. monotonicity under quantum operations, for $\alpha\geq 1/2$. In this article, we derive a necessary and sufficient algebraic condition for equality in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Felix Leditzky , Cambyse Rouzé , Nilanjana Datta

Many common probability distributions in statistics like the Gaussian, multinomial, Beta or Gamma distributions can be studied under the unified framework of exponential families. In this paper, we prove that both R\'enyi and Tsallis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-01 Frank Nielsen , Richard Nock

The R\'enyi entropy is a generalization of the Shannon entropy and is widely used in mathematical statistics and applied sciences for quantifying the uncertainty in a probability distribution. We consider estimation of the quadratic R\'enyi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-08 David Källberg , Nikolaj Leonenko , Oleg Seleznjev

Universal hash functions map the output of a source to random strings over a finite alphabet, aiming to approximate the uniform distribution on the set of strings. A classic result on these functions, called the Leftover Hash Lemma, gives…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Madhura Pathegama , Alexander Barg

The R\'enyi entropy is a mathematical generalization of the concept of entropy and it encodes the total information of a system as a funtion of its order parameter $\alpha$. The meaning of the R\'enyi entropy in physics is not completely…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Nicolò Masi

Sparse high-dimensional linear regression is a central problem in statistics, where the goal is often variable selection and/or coefficient estimation. We propose a mean-field variational Bayes approximation for sparse regression with…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-02 Chadi Bsila , Yiqi Tang , Kaiwen Wang , Laurie Heyer

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