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Shannon entropy, a cornerstone of information theory, statistical physics and inference methods, is uniquely identified by the Shannon-Khinchin or Shore-Johnson axioms. Generalizations of Shannon entropy, motivated by the study of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-20 Andrea Somazzi , Diego Garlaschelli

Upper and lower bounds are obtained for the joint entropy of a collection of random variables in terms of an arbitrary collection of subset joint entropies. These inequalities generalize Shannon's chain rule for entropy as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mokshay Madiman , Prasad Tetali

The search for patterns in time series is a very common task when dealing with complex systems. This is usually accomplished by employing a complexity measure such as entropies and fractal dimensions. However, such measures usually only…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-06-13 Haroldo V. Ribeiro , Max Jauregui , Luciano Zunino , Ervin K. Lenzi

Recently, the Shannon entropy, which was introduced originally as a measure of information amount, has been widely used as a useful index of various diversities such as biodiversity and geodiversity. In this work we have evaluated the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-19 Tetsuo Yabuki , Yumi Matsumura , Yoko Nakatani

Inference of population structure from genetic data plays an important role in population and medical genetics studies. With the advancement and decreasing cost of sequencing technology, the increasingly available whole genome sequencing…

Applications · Statistics 2022-05-17 Yuyang Xu , Zhonghua Liu , Jianfeng Yao

This work presents a new approach for classification of genomic sequences from measurements of complex networks and information theory. For this, it is considered the nucleotides, dinucleotides and trinucleotides of a genomic sequence. For…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Bruno Mendes Moro Conque , André Yoshiaki Kashiwabara , Fabrício Martins Lopes

Entropy measures of probability distributions are widely used measures in ecology, biology, genetics, and in other fields, to quantify species diversity of a community. Unfortunately, entropy-based diversity indices, or diversity indices…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2014-08-14 Karim T. Abou-Moustafa

The Renyi entropy is a generalisation of the Shannon entropy that is sensitive to the fine details of a probability distribution. We present results for the Renyi entropy of the totally asymmetric exclusion process (TASEP). We calculate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-10 Anthony J. Wood , Richard A. Blythe , Martin R. Evans

Complex networks are usually characterized in terms of their topological, spatial, or information-theoretic properties and combinations of the associated metrics are used to discriminate networks into different classes or categories.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-10-25 Marc Wiedermann , Jonathan F. Donges , Jürgen Kurths , Reik V. Donner

We show that in the continuum limit, the average spectrum method (ASM) is equivalent to maximizing R\'enyi entropies of order $\eta$, of which Shannon entropy is the special case $\eta=1$. The order of R\'enyi entropy is determined by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-24 Khaldoon Ghanem , Erik Koch

Misclassification detection is an important problem in machine learning, as it allows for the identification of instances where the model's predictions are unreliable. However, conventional uncertainty measures such as Shannon entropy do…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-09 Eduardo Dadalto , Marco Romanelli , Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida

We survey and introduce concepts and tools located at the intersection of information theory and network biology. We show that Shannon's information entropy, compressibility and algorithmic complexity quantify different local and global…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-14 Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

Currently in the federated setting, no learning schemes leverage the emerging research of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in particular the novel learning metrics that help determine how well a model is learning. One of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Andre Fu

The entropy of a quantum system is a measure of its randomness, and has applications in measuring quantum entanglement. We study the problem of measuring the von Neumann entropy, $S(\rho)$, and R\'enyi entropy, $S_\alpha(\rho)$ of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jayadev Acharya , Ibrahim Issa , Nirmal V. Shende , Aaron B. Wagner

The R{\'e}nyi entropy is one of the important information measures that generalizes Shannon's entropy. The quantum R{\'e}nyi entropy has a fundamental role in quantum information theory, therefore, bounding this quantity is of vital…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 Hadi Reisizadeh , S. Mahmoud Manjegani

Non Performing Asset(NPA) has been in a serious attention by banks over the past few years. NPA cause a huge loss to the banks hence it becomes an extremely critical step in deciding which loans have the capabilities to become an NPA and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Ambarish Moharil , Nikhil Sonavane , Chirag Kedia , Mansimran Singh Anand

Characterizing complexity and criticality in quantum systems requires diagnostics that are both computationally tractable and physically insightful. We apply a measure of quantum state complexity for n-qubit systems, defined as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Imre Varga

How much information is added to the Review of Particle Physics when a new decay branching ratio of a hadron is measured and reported? This is quantifiable by Shannon's information entropy $S(i) =-\sum_{f}BR_{(i\longrightarrow f)}\log…

Information theory and Shannon entropy are essential for quantifying irregularity in complex systems or signals. Recently, two-dimensional entropy methods, such as two-dimensional sample entropy, distribution entropy, and permutation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Runze Jiang , Pengjian Shang