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A key feature of information theory is its universality, as it can be applied to study a broad variety of complex systems. However, many information-theoretic measures can vary significantly even across systems with similar properties,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Alberto Liardi , Fernando E. Rosas , Robin L. Carhart-Harris , George Blackburne , Daniel Bor , Pedro A. M. Mediano

QMetro++ is a Python package that provides a set of tools for identifying optimal estimation protocols that maximize quantum Fisher information (QFI). Optimization can be performed for arbitrary configurations of input states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Piotr Dulian , Stanisław Kurdziałek , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

It is known that statistical model selection as well as identification of dynamical equations from available data are both very challenging tasks. Physical systems behave according to their underlying dynamical equations which, in turn, can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Sean Alan Ali , Carlo Cafaro

Information-theoretic quantities, such as entropy, are used to quantify the amount of information a given variable provides. Entropies can be used together to compute the mutual information, which quantifies the amount of information two…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-12-22 Kevin H. Knuth , Deniz Gençağa , William B. Rossow

The concept of information has emerged as a language in its own right, bridging several disciplines that analyze natural phenomena and man-made systems. Integrated information has been introduced as a metric to quantify the amount of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-10 Alberto Hernández-Espinosa , Héctor Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

We introduce pymovements: a Python package for analyzing eye-tracking data that follows best practices in software development, including rigorous testing and adherence to coding standards. The package provides functionality for key…

Quantum information quantities, such as mutual information and entropies, are essential for characterizing quantum systems and protocols in quantum information science. In this contribution, we identify types of information measures based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Christopher Popp , Tobias C. Sutter , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

Smooth entropies are a tool for quantifying resource trade-offs in (quantum) information theory and cryptography. In typical bi- and multi-partite problems, however, some of the sub-systems are often left unchanged and this is not reflected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Anurag Anshu , Mario Berta , Rahul Jain , Marco Tomamichel

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

Information diagram and the I-measure are useful mnemonics where random variables are treated as sets, and entropy and mutual information are treated as a signed measure. Although the I-measure has been successful in machine proofs of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Cheuk Ting Li

Change of measure inequalities translate divergences between probability measures into explicit bounds on event probabilities, and play an important role in deriving probabilistic guarantees in learning theory, information theory, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yanxiao Liu , Yijun Fan , Deniz Gündüz

Ensuring the usefulness of electronic data sources while providing necessary privacy guarantees is an important unsolved problem. This problem drives the need for an overarching analytical framework that can quantify the safety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-04 Lalitha Sankar , S. Raj Rajagopalan , H. Vincent Poor

Incomplete data is a persistent challenge in real-world datasets, often governed by complex and unobservable missing mechanisms. Simulating missingness has become a standard approach for understanding its impact on learning and analysis.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Youran Zhou , Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Sunil Aryal

Integrated information theory provides a mathematical framework to fully characterize the cause-effect structure of a physical system. Here, we introduce PyPhi, a Python software package that implements this framework for causal analysis…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-16 William G. P. Mayner , William Marshall , Larissa Albantakis , Graham Findlay , Robert Marchman , Giulio Tononi

We present information value, a measure which quantifies the predictability of an utterance relative to a set of plausible alternatives. We introduce a method to obtain interpretable estimates of information value using neural text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mario Giulianelli , Sarenne Wallbridge , Raquel Fernández

Understanding a complex system entails capturing the non-trivial collective phenomena that arise from interactions between its different parts. Information theory is a flexible and robust framework to study such behaviours, with several…

The success of NLP systems often relies on the availability of large, high-quality datasets. However, not all samples in these datasets are equally valuable for learning, as some may be redundant or noisy. Several methods for characterizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jaehyung Kim , Yekyung Kim , Karin de Langis , Jinwoo Shin , Dongyeop Kang

Probabilistic representation spaces convey information about a dataset and are shaped by factors such as the training data, network architecture, and loss function. Comparing the information content of such spaces is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kieran A. Murphy , Sam Dillavou , Dani S. Bassett

Entropy is a measure of heterogeneity widely used in applied sciences, often when data are collected over space. Recently, a number of approaches has been proposed to include spatial information in entropy. The aim of entropy is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

In this paper have written the results of the information analysis of structures. The obtained information estimation (IE) are based on an entropy measure of C. Shannon. Obtained IE is univalent both for the non-isomorphic and for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Alexander Shaydurov