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Shannon and Renyi entropies are quantitative measures of uncertainty in a data set. They are developed by Renyi in the context of entropy theory. These measures have been studied in the case of the multivariate t-distributions. We extend…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Salah H. Abid , Uday J. Quaez

Phase-space versions of quantum mechanics -- from Wigner's original distribution to modern discrete-qudit constructions -- represent some states with negative quasi-probabilities. Conventional Shannon and R\'enyi entropies become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Adam Brandenburger , Pierfrancesco La Mura

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

This article illustrates how to measure the heterogeneity of spatial data presenting a finite number of categories via computation of spatial entropy. The R package SpatEntropy contains functions for the computation of entropy and spatial…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-17 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

The R{\'e}nyi entropy is one of the important information measures that generalizes Shannon's entropy. The quantum R{\'e}nyi entropy has a fundamental role in quantum information theory, therefore, bounding this quantity is of vital…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 Hadi Reisizadeh , S. Mahmoud Manjegani

In the estimation theory context, we generalize the notion of Shannon's entropy power to the R\'{e}nyi-entropy setting. This not only allows to find new estimation inequalities, such as the R\'{e}nyi-entropy based De Bruijn identity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Petr Jizba , Jacob Dunningham , Martin Prokš

Shannon entropy is the shortest average codeword length a lossless compressor can achieve by encoding i.i.d. symbols. However, there are cases in which the objective is to minimize the \textit{exponential} average codeword length, i.e. when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Andrea Somazzi , Paolo Ferragina , Diego Garlaschelli

We investigate quantum R\'enyi entropic quantities, specifically those derived from 'sandwiched' divergence. This divergence is one of several proposed R\'enyi generalisations of the quantum relative entropy. We may define R\'enyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Alexander McKinlay

With the rapid expansion of graphs and networks and the growing magnitude of data from all areas of science, effective treatment and compression schemes of context-dependent data is extremely desirable. A particularly interesting direction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jie Han , Tao Guo , Qiaoqiao Zhou , Wei Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

In this work, we investigate the reliability of information-theoretic measures based on the electron-density and shape-function, specifically Shannon and R\'enyi entropies, as descriptors of electronic correlation. By establishing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Diogo J. L. Rodrigues , Evelio Francisco , Ángel Martín Pendás

In data-driven determination of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) in global QCD analyses, uncovering the true underlying distributions is complicated by a highly convoluted inverse problem. The determination of PDFs can be understood as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-12 Aurore Courtoy , Arturo Ibsen

Shannon entropy is not the only entropy that is relevant to machine-learning datasets, nor possibly even the most important one. Traditional entropies such as Shannon entropy capture information represented by elements' frequencies but not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Phuc Nguyen , Josiah Couch , Rahul Bansal , Alexandra Morgan , Chris Tam , Miao Li , Rima Arnaout , Ramy Arnaout

Counting problems such as determining how many bit strings satisfy a given Boolean logic formula are notoriously hard. In many cases, even getting an approximate count is difficult. Here we propose that entanglement, a common concept in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-03 Claudio Chamon , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

We deploy Shannon's information entropy to the distribution of branching fractions in a particle decay. This serves to quantify how important a given new reported decay channel is, from the point of view of the information that it adds to…

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

The recently developed matrix based Renyi's entropy enables measurement of information in data simply using the eigenspectrum of symmetric positive semi definite (PSD) matrices in reproducing kernel Hilbert space, without estimation of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-10 Tieliang Gong , Yuxin Dong , Shujian Yu , Bo Dong

The entropy of probability distribution defined by Shannon has several extensions. R\'enyi entropy is one of the general extensions of Shannon entropy and is widely used in engineering, physics, and so on. On the other hand, the quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Farrukh Mukhamedov , Kyouhei Ohmura , Noboru Watanabe

The range-minimum query (RMQ) problem is a fundamental data structuring task with numerous applications. Despite the fact that succinct solutions with worst-case optimal $2n+o(n)$ bits of space and constant query time are known, it has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-03-07 J. Ian Munro , Sebastian Wild

R\'enyi entropies are conceptually valuable and experimentally relevant generalisations of the celebrated von Neumann entanglement entropy. After a quantum quench in a clean quantum many-body system they generically display a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-04 Bruno Bertini , Katja Klobas , Vincenzo Alba , Gianluca Lagnese , Pasquale Calabrese

Reliable data-driven estimation of Shannon entropy from small data sets, where the number of examples is potentially smaller than the number of possible outcomes, is a critical matter in several applications. In this paper, we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Gabriel F. A. Bastos , Jugurta Montalvão