English
Related papers

Related papers: Higher-order Common Information

200 papers

We derive a tight lower bound on equivocation (conditional entropy), or equivalently a tight upper bound on mutual information between a signal variable and channel outputs. The bound is in terms of the joint distribution of the signals and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Michal Hledík , Thomas R. Sokolowski , Gašper Tkačik

Communication complexity, which quantifies the minimum communication required for distributed computation, offers a natural setting for investigating the capabilities and limitations of quantum mechanics in information processing. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Nikolai Miklin , Prabhav Jain , Mariami Gachechiladze

In this correspondence, we correct an erroneous result on the achievability part of the R\'enyi common information with order $1+s\in(1,2]$ in [1]. The new achievability result (upper bound) of the R\'enyi common information no longer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Lei Yu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Suprathreshold stochastic resonance (SSR) is a form of noise enhanced signal transmission that occurs in a parallel array of independently noisy identical threshold nonlinearities, including model neurons. Unlike most forms of stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-02 Mark D. McDonnell , Nigel G. Stocks , Derek Abbott

We introduce an innovative and mathematically rigorous definition for computing common information from multi-view data, drawing inspiration from G\'acs-K\"orner common information in information theory. Leveraging this definition, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Qi Zhang , Mingfei Lu , Shujian Yu , Jingmin Xin , Badong Chen

We adopt the concept of the correlation matrix to study correlations among sequences of time-extended events occuring repeatedly at consecutive time-intervals. As an application we analyse the magnetoencephalography recordings obtained from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Kwapien , S. Drozdz , A. A. Ioannides

The problem of how to properly quantify redundant information is an open question that has been the subject of much recent research. Redundant information refers to information about a target variable S that is common to two or more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Robin A. A. Ince

Simultaneously recorded neurons exhibit correlations whose underlying causes are not known. Here, we use a population of threshold neurons receiving correlated inputs to model neural population recordings. We show analytically that small…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2010-09-20 Jakob H Macke , Manfred Opper , Matthias Bethge

We present a unifying picture of PAC-Bayesian and mutual information-based upper bounds on the generalization error of randomized learning algorithms. As we show, Tong Zhang's information exponential inequality (IEI) gives a general recipe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Pradeep Kr. Banerjee , Guido Montúfar

Secure multi-party computation is a central problem in modern cryptography. An important sub-class of this are problems of the following form: Alice and Bob desire to produce sample(s) of a pair of jointly distributed random variables. Each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-10 Vinod Prabhakaran , Manoj Prabhakaran

Neural conversation models tend to generate safe, generic responses for most inputs. This is due to the limitations of likelihood-based decoding objectives in generation tasks with diverse outputs, such as conversation. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ashutosh Baheti , Alan Ritter , Jiwei Li , Bill Dolan

Accessible information, which is a basic quantity in quantum information theory, is computed for a general quantum Gaussian ensemble under certain "threshold condition". It is shown that the maximizing measurement is Gaussian, constituting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 A. S. Holevo

The accessible information acc(E) of an ensemble E is the maximum mutual information between a random variable encoded into quantum states, and the probabilistic outcome of a quantum measurement of the encoding. Accessible information is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-29 Rahul Jain , Ashwin Nayak

This paper is motivated by a regression analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) neuroimaging data with high-dimensional correlated responses with multi-level nested correlations. We develop a divide-and-conquer procedure implemented in a…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-29 Emily C. Hector , Peter X. -K. Song

The principle of `information causality' can be used to derive an upper bound---known as the `Tsirelson bound'---on the strength of quantum mechanical correlations, and has been conjectured to be a foundational principle of nature. To date,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Michael E. Cuffaro

Estimating the mutual information from samples from a joint distribution is a challenging problem in both science and engineering. In this work, we realize a variational bound that generalizes both discriminative and generative approaches.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-05 Marco Federici , David Ruhe , Patrick Forré

We study a model of communication complexity that encompasses many well-studied problems, including classical and quantum communication complexity, the complexity of simulating distributions arising from bipartite measurements of shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-08 Julien Degorre , Marc Kaplan , Sophie Laplante , Jérémie Roland

Higher-order information theory has become a rapidly growing toolkit in computational neuroscience, motivated by the idea that multivariate dependencies can reveal aspects of neural computation and communication that are invisible to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 D. Rebbin , K. J. A. Down , T. F. Varley , R. Ince , A. Canales-Johnson

Electroencephalography (EEG) is widely used to study human brain dynamics, yet its quantitative information capacity remains unclear. Here, we combine information theory and synthetic forward modeling to estimate the mutual information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ishir Rao

Mutual information is widely used, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of categorical random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the descriptive value, one must consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Marcus Hutter , Marco Zaffalon