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The importance of effective detection is underscored by the fact that socialbots imitate human behavior to propagate misinformation, leading to an ongoing competition between socialbots and detectors. Despite the rapid advancement of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xianghua Zeng , Hao Peng , Angsheng Li

In the fields of brain-computer interaction and cognitive neuroscience, effective decoding of auditory signals from task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is key to understanding how the brain processes complex auditory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-05 Wanli Ma , Xuegang Tang , Jin Gu , Ying Wang , Yuling Xia

In this paper, we will argue that if we want to understand the function of the brain (or the control in the case of robots), we must understand how the brain is embedded into the physical system, and how the organism interacts with the real…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Matej Hoffmann , Rolf Pfeifer

Distributed systems, such as biological and artificial neural networks, process information via complex interactions engaging multiple subsystems, resulting in high-order patterns with distinct properties across scales. Investigating how…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Aaron J. Gutknecht , Fernando E. Rosas , David A. Ehrlich , Abdullah Makkeh , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Michael Wibral

Efficient and accurate learning of constitutive laws is crucial for accurately predicting the mechanical behavior of materials under complex loading conditions. Accurate model calibration hinges on a delicate interplay between the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Royal C. Ihuaenyi , Wei Li , Martin Z. Bazant , Juner Zhu

Given an independent and identically distributed source $X = \{X_i \}_{i=1}^{\infty}$ with finite Shannon entropy or differential entropy (as the case may be) $H(X)$, the non-asymptotic equipartition property (NEP) with respect to $H(X)$ is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-18 En-Hui Yang , Jin Meng

The field of Information Theory is founded on Claude Shannon's seminal ideas relating to entropy. Nevertheless, his well-known avoidance of meaning (Shannon, 1948) still persists to this day, so that Information Theory remains poorly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Philip Tetlow , Dinesh Garg , Leigh Chase , Mark Mattingley-Scott , Nicholas Bronn , Kugendran Naidoo , Emil Reinert

This paper is a review of a particular approach to the method of maximum entropy as a general framework for inference. The discussion emphasizes the pragmatic elements in the derivation. An epistemic notion of information is defined in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-08-04 Ariel Caticha

As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely approached the limits of Shannon channel capacity, semantic communication has been recognized as a key enabling technology for the further improvement of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

In information theory, Fisher information and Shannon information (entropy) are respectively used to quantify the uncertainty associated with the distribution modeling and the uncertainty in specifying the outcome of given variables. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-27 Huangjie Zheng , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Jia Wang

We analyze information transmission in a recently proposed coarse-grained model of polymer replication by framing it as a communication channel between templates and copies. By calculating the mutual information in the steady-state limit of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-22 Damián G. Hernández

We present a theory for modeling the structure of information and a language (Quanta) expressing the theory. Unlike Shannon's information theory, which focuses on the amount of information in an information system, we focus on the structure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bruce Long

The ability to integrate information in the brain is considered to be an essential property for cognition and consciousness. Integrated Information Theory (IIT) hypothesizes that the amount of integrated information ($\Phi$) in the brain is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-04 Jun Kitazono , Ryota Kanai , Masafumi Oizumi

Over the last few years, machine learning unlocked previously infeasible features for compression, such as providing guarantees for users' privacy or tailoring compression to specific data statistics (e.g., satellite images or audio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Gergely Flamich

We present an information-theoretic framework for understanding overfitting and underfitting in machine learning and prove the formal undecidability of determining whether an arbitrary classification algorithm will overfit a dataset.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Daniel Bashir , George D. Montanez , Sonia Sehra , Pedro Sandoval Segura , Julius Lauw

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

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

The intelligent behavior of robots does not emerge solely from control systems, but from the tight coupling between body and brain, a principle known as embodied intelligence. Designing soft robots that leverage this interaction remains a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jianqiang Wang , Shuaiqun Pan , Alvaro Serra-Gomez , Xiaohan Wei , Yue Xie

Information theoretic quantities play a central role in machine learning. The recent surge in the complexity of data and models has increased the demand for accurate estimation of these quantities. However, as the dimension grows the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-21 Viktor Nilsson , Anirban Samaddar , Sandeep Madireddy , Pierre Nyquist

Collaboration is central to human behavior, enabling tasks beyond individual capability. This ability arises from coordinating actions through internal representations of others, a concept known as shared intelligence. Additionally, humans…