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We propose utilizing entropy as a diagnostic tool to distinguish between constant and dynamical dark energy models. Entropy, a measure of the system's disorder or information content, captures the complexity and evolution of the universe.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Tanisha Joshi

The Shannon entropy is a widely used summary statistic, for example, network traffic measurement, anomaly detection, neural computations, spike trains, etc. This study focuses on estimating Shannon entropy of data streams. It is known that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Ping Li

Information plays an important role in our understanding of the physical world. We hence propose an entropic measure of information for any physical theory that admits systems, states and measurements. In the quantum and classical world,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Anthony J. Short , Stephanie Wehner

Inferring models, predicting the future, and estimating the entropy rate of discrete-time, discrete-event processes is well-worn ground. However, a much broader class of discrete-event processes operates in continuous-time. Here, we provide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-11 S. E. Marzen , J. P. Crutchfield

We review the properties of the quantum relative entropy function and discuss its application to problems of classical and quantum information transfer and to quantum data compression. We then outline further uses of relative entropy to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Schumacher , Michael D. Westmoreland

Entropy and information can be considered dual: entropy is a measure of the subspace defined by the information constraining the given ambient space. Negative entropies, arising in na\"ive extensions of the definition of entropy from…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-06 Daniel Lazarev

Entropy is useful in statistical problems as a measure of irreversibility, randomness, mixing, dispersion, and number of microstates. However, there remains ambiguity over the precise mathematical formulation of entropy, generalized beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 Vladimir Zhdankin

Relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability for quantum states, and plays a central role in quantum information theory. The family of Renyi entropies generalizes to Renyi relative entropies that include as special cases most entropy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-12 Nima Lashkari

We study the notion of approximate entropy within the framework of network theory. Approximate entropy is an uncertainty measure originally proposed in the context of dynamical systems and time series. We firstly define a purely structural…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-30 James West , Lucas Lacasa , Simone Severini , Andrew Teschendorff

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

It is shown that the von Neumann entropy, a measure of quantum entanglement, does have its classical counterpart in thermodynamic systems, which we call partial entropy. Close to the critical temperature the partial entropy shows perfect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Junpeng Cao , Xiaoling Cui , Zhang Qi , Wengang Lu , Qian Niu , Yupeng Wang

Systematic generalization remains challenging for current language models, which are known to be both sensitive to semantically similar permutations of the input and to struggle with known concepts presented in novel contexts. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sondre Wold , Lucas Georges Gabriel Charpentier , Étienne Simon

Dempster-Shafer theory of imprecise probabilities has proved useful to incorporate both nonspecificity and conflict uncertainties in an inference mechanism. The traditional Bayesian approach cannot differentiate between the two, and is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Sari Haj Hussein

For a closed-loop control system with a digital channel between the sensor and the controller, the notion of invariance entropy quantifies the smallest average rate of information above which a given compact subset of the state space can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Mahendra Singh Tomar , Christoph Kawan , Majid Zamani

We propose a new way to measure the balance between freedom and coherence in a dynamical system and a new measure of its internal variability. Based on the concept of entropy and ideas from neuroscience and information theory, we define…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Karl Petersen , Benjamin Wilson

Compression of documents, images, audios and videos have been traditionally practiced to increase the efficiency of data storage and transfer. However, in order to process or carry out any analytical computations, decompression has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-09 P. Nagabhushan , Mohammed Javed , B. B. Chaudhuri

Observational entropy captures both the intrinsic uncertainty of a thermodynamic state and the lack of knowledge due to coarse-graining. We demonstrate two interpretations of observational entropy, one as the statistical deficiency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Ge Bai , Dominik Šafránek , Joseph Schindler , Francesco Buscemi , Valerio Scarani

We show why the amount of information communicated between the past and future--the excess entropy--is not in general the amount of information stored in the present--the statistical complexity. This is a puzzle, and a long-standing one,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 James P. Crutchfield , Christopher J. Ellison , John R. Mahoney

Measurements can be viewed as interactions between a measured system and a pointer system that imprint information about the system on the pointer. For so-called unbiased interactions, the measurement statistics--the information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Tiago Debarba , Marcus Huber , Nicolai Friis

Information entropy is applied to the analysis of time series generated by dynamical systems. Complexity of a temporal or spatio-temporal signal is defined as the difference between the sum of entropies of the local linear regions of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Milan Rajkovic