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The interaction between boundary layer turbulence and a porous layer is the cornerstone to the interface engineering. In this study, the spatial resolved transfer entropy is used to assess the asymmetry of the causal interaction next to a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-04 Xu Chu , Wenkang Wang , Bernhard Weigand

We demonstrate that Shannon's information entropy and the thermodynamic entropy of Boltzmann and Gibbs are quantitatively equivalent for real condensed-matter systems. By interpreting atomic configurations as information sources, we compute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Dallin Fisher , Qi-Jun Hong

Shannon's information entropy measures of the uncertainty of an event's outcome. If learning about a system reflects a decrease in uncertainty, then a plausible intuition is that learning should be accompanied by a decrease in the entropy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-20 Paul E. Smaldino

In a genetic algorithm, fluctuations of the entropy of a genome over time are interpreted as fluctuations of the information that the genome's organism is storing about its environment, being this reflected in more complex organisms. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-11-04 Manuel Cebrian , Manuel Alfonseca , Alfonso Ortega

The Shannon entropy, and related quantities such as mutual information, can be used to quantify uncertainty and relevance. However, in practice, it can be difficult to compute these quantities for arbitrary probability distributions,…

Computation · Statistics 2017-10-11 Brendon J. Brewer

The translation of written language has been known since the 3rd century BC; however, its necessity has become increasingly common in the information age. Today, many translators exist, based on encoder-decoder deep architectures,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ronit D. Gross , Yanir Harel , Ido Kanter

The possibility of facing critical phenomena in nuclear fragmentation is a topic of great interest. Different observables have been proposed to identify such a behavior, in particular, some related to the use of information entropy as a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Pablo Balenzuela , C. O. Dorso

Interacting random field of probabilities links Kolmogorov law 0-1 and Bayesian probabilities observing Markov diffusion process under Yes-No actions of random impulse. These objective probabilities measure virtual probing impulses…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-09-08 Vladimir S. Lerner

Although deep neural networks have been immensely successful, there is no comprehensive theoretical understanding of how they work or are structured. As a result, deep networks are often seen as black boxes with unclear interpretations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ravid Shwartz-Ziv

We investigate the system-environment information flow from the point of view ofcomplete complementarity relations. We consider some commonly used noisy quantum channels:Amplitude damping, phase damping, bit flip, bit-phase flip, phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-25 Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero

We experimentally demonstrate that highly structured distributions of work emerge during even the simple task of erasing a single bit. These are signatures of a refined suite of time-reversal symmetries in distinct functional classes of…

In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, modelling, and ultimately controlling complex systems: systems comprised of a large number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Thomas F. Varley

A new paradigm for distributed quantum systems where information is a valuable resource is developed. After finding a unique measure for information, we construct a scheme for it's manipulation in analogy with entanglement theory. In this…

In this work, we consider diffusion-based molecular communication with and without drift between two static nano-machines. We employ type-based information encoding, releasing a single molecule per information bit. At the receiver, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Werner Haselmayr , Neeraj Varshney , A. Taufiq Asyhari , Andreas Springer , Weisi Guo

The information bottleneck (IB) method is a technique for extracting information that is relevant for predicting the target random variable from the source random variable, which is typically implemented by optimizing the IB Lagrangian that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ziqi Pan , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

Symbolic transfer entropy is a powerful non-parametric tool to detect lead-lag between time series. Because a closed expression of the distribution of Transfer Entropy is not known for finite-size samples, statistical testing is often…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-06-22 Christian Bongiorno , Damien Challet

Distributed computation in artificial life and complex systems is often described in terms of component operations on information: information storage, transfer and modification. Information modification remains poorly described however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Joseph T. Lizier , Benjamin Flecker , Paul L. Williams

We study how the Shannon entropy of sequences produced by an information source converges to the source's entropy rate. We synthesize several phenomenological approaches to applying information theoretic measures of randomness and memory to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 James P. Crutchfield , David P. Feldman

The analysis of temporal networks heavily depends on the analysis of time-respecting paths. However, before being able to model and analyze the time-respecting paths, we have to infer the timescales at which the temporal edges influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-30 Luka V. Petrović , Anatol Wegner , Ingo Scholtes

In terms of transfer entropy, we investigated the strength and the direction of information transfer in the US stock market. Through the directionality of the information transfer, the more influential company between the correlated ones…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-12-02 Seung Ki Baek , Woo-Sung Jung , Okyu Kwon , Hie-Tae Moon