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This paper describes a framework in which directed information is defined on abstract spaces. The framework is employed to derive properties of directed information such as convexity, concavity, lower semicontinuity, by using the topology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou

A principal delegates choice to an agent whose decision depends on both beliefs and tastes. The principal can steer the delegated decision using two costly instruments: (i) an information policy that determines a Bayes--plausible…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-02-12 Kemal Ozbek

Efficiently estimating system dynamics from data is essential for minimizing data collection costs and improving model performance. This work addresses the challenge of designing future control inputs to maximize information gain, thereby…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Joshua Ott , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Stephen Boyd

We introduce a general operational characterization of information-preserving structures (IPS) -- encompassing noiseless subsystems, decoherence-free subspaces, pointer bases, and error-correcting codes -- by demonstrating that they are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robin Blume-Kohout , Hui Khoon Ng , David Poulin , Lorenza Viola

The ability of having a sparse representation for a certain class of signals has many applications in data analysis, image processing, and other research fields. Among sparse representations, the cosparse analysis model has recently gained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Matthias Seibert , Julian Wörmann , Rémi Gribonval , Martin Kleinsteuber

This work considers a novel information design problem and studies how the craft of payoff-relevant environmental signals solely can influence the behaviors of intelligent agents. The agents' strategic interactions are captured by a Markov…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

We consider a queue with an unobservable backlog by the incoming users. There is an information designer that observes the queue backlog and makes recommendations to the users arriving at the queue whether to join or not to join the queue.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-01 Nasimeh Heydaribeni , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

In inverse problems, one attempts to infer spatially variable functions from indirect measurements of a system. To practitioners of inverse problems, the concept of "information" is familiar when discussing key questions such as which parts…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Wolfgang Bangerth , Chris R. Johnson , Dennis K. Njeru , Bart van Bloemen Waanders

Let $S$ and $\tilde S$ be two independent and identically distributed random variables, which we interpret as the signal, and let $P_1$ and $P_2$ be two communication channels. We can choose between two measurement scenarios: either we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Anastasia Kireeva , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

Under the paradigm of caching, partial data is delivered before the actual requests of users are known. In this paper, this problem is modeled as a canonical distributed source coding problem with side information, where the side…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Chien-Yi Wang , Sung Hoon Lim , Michael Gastpar

In this paper, a unified framework for representing uncertain information based on the notion of an interval structure is proposed. It is shown that the lower and upper approximations of the rough-set model, the lower and upper bounds of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Michael S. K. M. Wong , L. S. Wang , Y. Y. Yao

We study strategic Gaussian semantic compression under rate and compute constraints, where an encoder and decoder optimize distinct quadratic objectives. A latent Gaussian state generates a task dependent semantic variable, and the decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Emrah Akyol

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

Categorization is an important topic both for biological and artificial neural networks. Here, we take an information theoretic approach to assess the efficiency of the representations induced by category learning. We show that one can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Laurent Bonnasse-Gahot , Jean-Pierre Nadal

In this paper, we study the state-dependent two-user interference channel, where the state information is non-causally known at both transmitters but unknown to either of the receivers. We first propose two coding schemes for the discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Lili Zhang , Jinhua Jiang , Shuguang Cui

I consider the tradeoff between the information gained about an initially unknown quantum state, and the disturbance caused to that state by the measurement process. I show that for any distribution of initial states, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard Barnum

The quadratic decaying property of the information rate function states that given a fixed conditional distribution $p_{\mathsf{Y}|\mathsf{X}}$, the mutual information between the (finite) discrete random variables $\mathsf{X}$ and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Michael X. Cao , Marco Tomamichel

Spatial constraint systems (scs) are semantic structures for reasoning about spatial and epistemic information in concurrent systems. We develop the theory of scs to reason about the distributed information of potentially infinite groups.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Michell Guzmán , Sophia Knight , Santiago Quintero , Sergio Ramírez , Camilo Rueda , Frank Valencia

This paper characterizes an achievable information-energy region of simultaneous information and energy transmission over an additive white Gaussian noise channel. This analysis is performed in the finite block-length regime with finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Sadaf ul Zuhra , Samir M. Perlaza , H. Vincent Poor , Eitan Altman

Stochastic compositional optimization (SCO) has attracted considerable attention because of its broad applicability to important real-world problems. However, existing works on SCO assume that the projection within a solution update is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Shuoguang Yang , Wei You , Zhe Zhang , Ethan X. Fang