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Shannon entropy is the most crucial foundation of Information Theory, which has been proven to be effective in many fields such as communications. Renyi entropy and Chernoff information are other two popular measures of information with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Shanyun Liu , Rui She , Jiaxun Lu , Pingyi Fan

Shannon entropy, a cornerstone of information theory, statistical physics and inference methods, is uniquely identified by the Shannon-Khinchin or Shore-Johnson axioms. Generalizations of Shannon entropy, motivated by the study of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-20 Andrea Somazzi , Diego Garlaschelli

While information is ubiquitously generated, shared, and analyzed in a modern-day life, there is still some controversy around the ways to asses the amount and quality of information inside a noisy optical channel. A number of theoretical…

Information has an entropic character which can be analyzed within the Statistical Theory in molecular systems. R. Landauer and C.H. Bennett showed that a logical copy can be carried out in the limit of no dissipation if the computation is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-08-15 J. Ricardo Arias-Gonzalez

Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities generalize Shannon's chain rule for entropy as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mokshay Madiman , Prasad Tetali

Shannon based his information theory on the notion of probability measures as it we developed by Kolmogorov. In this paper we study some fundamental problems in information theory based on expectation measures. In the theory of expectation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Peter Harremoës

The mutual information (MI) between two random variables is an important correlation measure in data analysis. The Shannon entropy of a joint probability distribution is the variable part under fixed marginals. We aim to minimize and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Paula Franke , Kay Hamacher , Paul Manns

We live in the information age. Claude Shannon, as the father of the information age, gave us a theory of communications that quantified an "amount of information," but, as he pointed out, "no concept of information itself was defined."…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 David Ellerman

The Shannon entropy of a random variable $X$ has much behaviour analogous to a signed measure. Previous work has concretized this connection by defining a signed measure $\mu$ on an abstract information space $\tilde{X}$, which is taken to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Keenan J. A. Down , Pedro A. M. Mediano

The diversity of a community that cannot be fully counted must be inferred. The two preeminent inference methods are the MaxEnt method, which uses information in the form of constraints and Bayes' rule which uses information in the form of…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-08-25 Adom Giffin

In this paper have written the results of the information analysis of structures. The obtained information estimation (IE) are based on an entropy measure of C. Shannon. Obtained IE is univalent both for the non-isomorphic and for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Alexander Shaydurov

Document classification is the detection specific content of interest in text documents. In contrast to the data-driven machine learning classifiers, knowledge-based classifiers can be constructed based on domain specific knowledge, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-07 AtMa P. O. Chan

Although compartmental dynamical systems are used in many different areas of science, model selection based on the maximum entropy principle (MaxEnt) is challenging because of the lack of methods for quantifying the entropy for this type of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Holger Metzler , Carlos A. Sierra

In this paper, some general properties of Shannon information measures are investigated over sets of probability distributions with restricted marginals. Certain optimization problems associated with these functionals are shown to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Mladen Kovačević , Ivan Stanojević , Vojin Šenk

The Shannon entropy is a fundamental measure for quantifying diversity and model complexity in fields such as information theory, ecology, and genetics. However, many existing studies assume that the number of species is known, an…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-23 Takato Hashino , Koji Tsukuda

There are numerous characterizations of Shannon entropy and Tsallis entropy as measures of information obeying certain properties. Using work by Faddeev and Furuichi, we derive a very simple characterization. Instead of focusing on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-22 John C. Baez , Tobias Fritz , Tom Leinster

Shannon entropy is often a quantity of interest to linguists studying the communicative capacity of human language. However, entropy must typically be estimated from observed data because researchers do not have access to the underlying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Aryaman Arora , Clara Meister , Ryan Cotterell

This study investigates entropy's potential for analyzing scientific research patterns across disciplines. Originating from thermodynamics, entropy now measures uncertainty and diversity in information systems. We examine Shannon Entropy,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-27 Yujie Shi , Alex Jie Yang , Sanhong Deng

The theoretical measuring of information was famously initiated by Shannon in his mathematical theory of communication, in which he proposed a now widely used quantity, the entropy, measured in bits. Yet, in the same paper, Shannon also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Andreas Winter

This paper proposes a novel entropy encoding technique for lossless data compression. Representing a message string by its lexicographic index in the permutations of its symbols results in a compressed version matching Shannon entropy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Abu Bakar Siddique