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A system responding to a stochastic driving signal can be interpreted as computing, by means of its dynamics, an implicit model of the environmental variables. The system's state retains information about past environmental fluctuations,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-09 Susanne Still , David A. Sivak , Anthony J. Bell , Gavin E. Crooks

Efficiently harvesting thermodynamic resources requires a precise understanding of their structure. This becomes explicit through the lens of information engines -- thermodynamic engines that use information as fuel. Maximizing the work…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-28 Alexander B. Boyd , James P. Crutchfield , Mile Gu , Felix C. Binder

For sensory networks, we determine the rate with which they acquire information about the changing external conditions. Comparing this rate with the thermodynamic entropy production that quantifies the cost of maintaining the network, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-08 A. C. Barato , D Hartich , U. Seifert

We study a dynamical system with time dependent Hamiltonian by numerical experiments so as to find a relation between thermodynamics and chaotic nature of the system. Excess information loss, defined newly based on Lyapunov analysis, is…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Sasa , T. S. Komatsu

In this work, we investigate the relation between the concept of ``information rate'', an information geometric method for measuring the speed of the time evolution of the statistical states of a stochastic process, and stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-29 Adrian-Josue Guel-Cortez , Eun-jin Kim

Fluctuations in biochemical networks, e.g., in a living cell, have a complex origin that precludes a description of such systems in terms of bipartite or multipartite processes, as is usually done in the framework of stochastic and/or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-29 R. Chétrite , M. L. Rosinberg , T. Sagawa , G. Tarjus

We investigate fundamental connections between thermodynamics and quantum information theory. First, we show that the operational framework of thermal operations is nonequivalent to the framework of Gibbs-preserving maps, and we comment on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Philippe Faist

We try to establish a unified information theoretic approach to learning and to explore some of its applications. First, we define {\em predictive information} as the mutual information between the past and the future of a time series,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilya Nemenman

In view of the relation between information and thermodynamics we investigate how much information about an external protocol can be stored in the memory of a stochastic measurement device given an energy budget. We consider a layered…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-28 Stefano Bo , Marco Del Giudice , Antonio Celani

We obtain generalizations of the Kelvin-Planck, Clausius, and Carnot statements of the second law of thermodynamics, for situations involving information processing. To this end, we consider an information reservoir (representing, e.g. a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-21 Sebastian Deffner , Christopher Jarzynski

Thermodynamics and information have intricate interrelations. Often thermodynamics is considered to be the logical premise to justify that information is physical - through Landauer's principle -, thereby also linking information and…

We introduce a constructive framework for assigning thermodynamic structure to an arbitrary data system from its measured microstates. Starting from an empirical distribution over configurations, we first infer a data-driven energy function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-29 George-Rafael Domenikos , Lock Yue Chew , Victoria Leong

We study the informational underpinnings of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, using an abstract framework, general probabilistic theories, capable of describing arbitrary physical theories. This allows one to abstract the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 Carlo Maria Scandolo

This letter exposes a tight connection between the thermodynamic efficiency of information processing and predictive inference. A generalized lower bound on dissipation is derived for partially observable information engines which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-12 Susanne Still

We develop an axiomatic reconstruction of thermodynamics based entirely on two primitive components: a description of what aspects of a system are observed and a reference measure that encodes the underlying descriptive convention. These…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Tatsuaki Tsuruyama

Despite the increasing prevalence of large language models (LLMs), we still have a limited understanding of how their representational spaces are structured. This limits our ability to interpret how and what they learn or relate them to…

Learning systems acquire structured internal representations from data, yet classical information-theoretic results state that deterministic transformations do not increase information. This raises a fundamental question: how can learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Daisuke Okanohara

Complex systems produce high-dimensional signals that lack macroscopic variables analogous to entropy, temperature, or free energy. This work introduces a thermoinformational formulation that derives entropy, internal energy, temperature,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-30 George-Rafael Domenikos , Victoria Leong

Non-equilibrium systems exchange information in addition to energy. In information thermodynamics, the information flow is characterized by the learning rate, which is not invariant under coordinate transformations. To formalize the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-25 Kenshin Matsumoto , Shin-ichi Sasa , Andreas Dechant

Three different approaches to derive mutual information via thermodynamics are presented where the temperature-dependent energy is given by: (a) $\beta \mathcal{E} = -\ln[P(X,Y)]$, (b) $\beta \mathcal{E} =-\ln[P(Y|X)]$ or (c) $\beta…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-24 Yitzhak Peleg , Hadar Efraim , Ori Shental , Ido Kanter