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In this paper, we show through examples, how the existing definitions of information transfer, namely directed information and transfer entropy fail to capture true causal interaction between states in control dynamical system. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-24 Subhrajit Sinha , Umesh Vaidya

Transfer entropy has been used to quantify the directed flow of information between source and target variables in many complex systems. While transfer entropy was originally formulated in discrete time, in this paper we provide a framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Richard E. Spinney , Mikhail Prokopenko , Joseph T. Lizier

The information entropy budget and the rate of information transfer between variables is studied in the context of a nonlinear reduced-order atmospheric model. The key ingredients of the dynamics are present in this model, namely the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Stéphane Vannitsem , Carlos A. Pires , David Docquier

This work explores entropy analysis as a tool for probing information distribution within Transformer-based architectures. By quantifying token-level uncertainty and examining entropy patterns across different stages of processing, we aim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Amedeo Buonanno , Alessandro Rivetti , Francesco A. N. Palmieri , Giovanni Di Gennaro , Gianmarco Romano

In the past decade, deep neural networks have seen unparalleled improvements that continue to impact every aspect of today's society. With the development of high performance GPUs and the availability of vast amounts of data, learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Mohammad Ali Alomrani

Transfer Entropy (TE), the primary method for determining directed information flow within a network system, can exhibit bias - either in deficiency or excess - during both pairwise and conditioned calculations, owing to high-order…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-02-14 Sebastiano Stramaglia , Luca Faes , Jesus M. Cortes , Daniele Marinazzo

A possible mechanism of time is formulated by developing an idea of time replaced by quantum correlations, with the aid of modern quantum information theory. We invent a microscopic model, where correlations of a closed system are steadily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Akimasa Miyake

During a spontaneous change, a macroscopic physical system will evolve towards a macro-state with more realizations. This observation is at the basis of the Statistical Mechanical version of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and it provides…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Mengjie Zu , Arunkumar Bupathy , Daan Frenkel , Srikanth Sastry

The concepts of information transfer and causal effect have received much recent attention, yet often the two are not appropriately distinguished and certain measures have been suggested to be suitable for both. We discuss two existing…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-03-05 Joseph T. Lizier , Mikhail Prokopenko

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…

After Shannon, entropy becomes a fundamental quantity to describe not only uncertainity or chaos of a system but also information carried by the system. Shannon's important discovery is to give a mathematical expression of the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanori Ohya

We apply information theoretic entropies of coordinate and velocity distributions in quantum mechanics for the description of the strong field ionization process. The approach is based on the properties of the entropies used in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 I. A. Ivanov , Chang Hee Nam , Kyung Taec Kim

Transfer entropy (TE) captures the directed relationships between two variables. Partial transfer entropy (PTE) accounts for the presence of all confounding variables of a multivariate system and infers only about direct causality. However,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-03 Angeliki Papana , Ariadni Papana-Dagiasis , Elsa Siggiridou

We study the problem of distributed information bottleneck, in which multiple encoders separately compress their observations in a manner such that, collectively, the compressed signals preserve as much information as possible about another…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Inaki Estella Aguerri , Abdellatif Zaidi

We theoretically investigate how information flows when two particles interact with each other. Understanding the physical mechanisms of directional information flow is crucial for advancing information thermodynamics and stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Tenta Tani

An information theory description of finite systems explicitly evolving in time is presented for classical as well as quantum mechanics. We impose a variational principle on the Shannon entropy at a given time while the constraints are set…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Chomaz , Francesca Gulminelli , Olivier Juillet

In this paper we develop the concept of information transfer between the Borel-measurable sets for a dynamical system described by a measurable space and a non-singular transformation. The concept is based on how Shannon entropy is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Subhrajit Sinha , Umesh Vaidya , Enoch Yeung

The information bottleneck (IB) principle has been suggested as a way to analyze deep neural networks. The learning dynamics are studied by inspecting the mutual information (MI) between the hidden layers and the input and output. Notably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Stephan Sloth Lorenzen , Christian Igel , Mads Nielsen

Transfer entropy in information theory was recently demonstrated [Phys. Rev. E 102, 012404 (2020)] to enable us to elucidate the interaction domain among interacting elements solely from an ensemble of trajectories. There, only pairs of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-01-19 Udoy S. Basak , Sulimon Sattari , Hossain M. Motaleb , Kazuki Horikawa , Tamiki Komatsuzaki

We consider the formalism of information decomposition of target effects from multi-source interactions, i.e. the problem of defining redundant and synergistic components of the information that a set of source variables provides about a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-24 Daniele Marinazzo , Leonardo Angelini , Mario Pellicoro , Sebastiano Stramaglia