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Estimating the entropy of a discrete random variable is a fundamental problem in information theory and related fields. This problem has many applications in various domains, including machine learning, statistics and data compression. Over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yuval Shalev , Amichai Painsky , Irad Ben-Gal

The R\'enyi entanglement entropy (REE) is an entanglement quantifier considered as a natural generalisation of the entanglement entropy. When it comes to stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC), however, only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Hyukjoon Kwon , A. J. Paige , M. S. Kim

We introduce the telescopic relative entropy (TRE), which is a new regularisation of the relative entropy related to smoothing, to overcome the problem that the relative entropy between pure states is either zero or infinity and therefore…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-28 Koenraad M. R. Audenaert

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

Transfer entropy (TE) is an attractive model-free method to detect causality and infer structural connectivity of general digital systems. However it relies on high dimensions used in its definition to clearly remove the memory effect and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-13 Zhong-Qi Kyle Tian , Douglas Zhou , David Cai

Transfer entropy is capable of capturing nonlinear source-destination relations between multi-variate time series. It is a measure of association between source data that are transformed into destination data via a set of linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 David Sigtermans

Entropies are fundamental measures of uncertainty with central importance in information theory and statistics and applications across all the quantitative sciences. Under a natural set of operational axioms, the most general form of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Roberto Rubboli , Erkka Haapasalo , Marco Tomamichel

This paper proposes an $\alpha$-leakage measure for $\alpha\in[0,\infty)$ by a cross entropy interpretation of R{\'{e}}nyi entropy. While R\'{e}nyi entropy was originally defined as an $f$-mean for $f(t) = \exp((1-\alpha)t)$, we reveal that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ni Ding , Mohammad Amin Zarrabian , Parastoo Sadeghi

Causal discovery is a fundamental problem in statistics and has wide applications in different fields. Transfer Entropy (TE) is a important notion defined for measuring causality, which is essentially conditional Mutual Information (MI).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Jian Ma

Conventional information-theoretic quantities assume access to probability distributions. Estimating such distributions is not trivial. Here, we consider function-based formulations of cross entropy that sidesteps this a priori estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Isaac J. Sledge , Jose C. Principe

R\'enyi entropy of order \alpha is a general measure of entropy. In this paper we derive estimations for the R\'enyi entropy of the mixture of sources in terms of the entropy of the single sources. These relations allow to compute the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Marek Śmieja , Jacek Tabor

This paper gives improved R\'{e}nyi entropy power inequalities (R-EPIs). Consider a sum $S_n = \sum_{k=1}^n X_k$ of $n$ independent continuous random vectors taking values on $\mathbb{R}^d$, and let $\alpha \in [1, \infty]$. An R-EPI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Eshed Ram , Igal Sason

We propose R\'enyi information generating function and discuss its properties. A connection between the R\'enyi information generating function and the diversity index is proposed for discrete type random variables. The relation between the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Shital Saha , Suchandan Kayal , N. Balakrishnan

Test time adaptation (TTA) equips deep learning models to handle unseen test data that deviates from the training distribution, even when source data is inaccessible. While traditional TTA methods often rely on entropy as a confidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Afshar Shamsi , Rejisa Becirovic , Ahmadreza Argha , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Hamid Alinejad-Rokny , Arash Mohammadi

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

Transfer entropy measures directed information flow in time series, and it has become a fundamental quantity in applications spanning neuroscience, finance, and complex systems analysis. However, existing estimation methods suffer from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Simon Pedro Galeano Munoz , Mustapha Bounoua , Giulio Franzese , Pietro Michiardi , Maurizio Filippone

The minimum error entropy (MEE) criterion has been successfully used in fields such as parameter estimation, system identification and the supervised machine learning. There is in general no explicit expression for the optimal MEE estimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Badong Chen , Guangmin Wang , Nanning Zheng , Jose C. Principe

Considering the difficulty of interpreting generative model output, there is significant current research focused on determining meaningful evaluation metrics. Several recent approaches utilize "precision" and "recall," borrowed from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Alexis Fox , Samarth Swarup , Abhijin Adiga

Magic, capturing the deviation of a quantum state from the stabilizer formalism, is a key resource underpinning the quantum advantage. The recently introduced stabilizer R\'enyi entropy (SRE) offers a tractable measure of magic, avoiding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Lei-Yi-Nan Liu , Su Yi , Jian Cui

Estimating entropy production from real observation data can be difficult due to finite resolution in both space and time and finite measurement statistics. We characterize the statistical error introduced by finite sample size and compare…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-09 Jonas H. Fritz , Benjamin Ertel , Udo Seifert