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This paper develops a geometric diagnostic framework for classical inequality decomposability. Representing the simplest nontrivial setting of three-person income distributions as points on the two-dimensional income-share simplex, we…

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In this paper, we propose a new discriminative model named \emph{nonextensive information theoretical machine (NITM)} based on nonextensive generalization of Shannon information theory. In NITM, weight parameters are treated as random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Chaobing Song , Shu-Tao Xia

Entropic uncertainty relations are interesting in their own rights as well as for a lot of applications. Keeping this in mind, we try to make the corresponding inequalities as tight as possible. The use of parametrized entropies also allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

Pseudoentropy characterizations provide a quantitatively precise demonstration of the close relationship between computational hardness and computational randomness. We prove a unified pseudoentropy characterization that generalizes and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Lunjia Hu , Salil Vadhan

We provide extensions of geometric inequalities about sections and projections of convex bodies to the setting of integrable log-concave functions. Namely, we consider suitable generalizations of the affine and dual affine quermassintegrals…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Natalia Tziotziou

Bounds on information combining are a fundamental tool in coding theory, in particular when analyzing polar codes and belief propagation. They usually bound the evolution of random variables with respect to their Shannon entropy. In recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Christoph Hirche , Xinyue Guan , Marco Tomamichel

We introduce the notion of consistent error bound functions which provides a unifying framework for error bounds for multiple convex sets. This framework goes beyond the classical Lipschitzian and H\"olderian error bounds and includes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Tianxiang Liu , Bruno F. Lourenço

A new general decomposition theory inspired from modular graph decomposition is presented. This helps unifying modular decomposition on different structures, including (but not restricted to) graphs. Moreover, even in the case of graphs,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-11-20 Binh-Minh Bui-Xuan , Michel Habib , Vincent Limouzy , Fabien De Montgolfier

In 1997, Z.Zhang and R.W.Yeung found the first example of a conditional information inequality in four variables that is not "Shannon-type". This linear inequality for entropies is called conditional (or constraint) since it holds only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Tarik Kaced , Andrei Romashchenko

Greedy algorithms are widely used for problems in machine learning such as feature selection and set function optimization. Unfortunately, for large datasets, the running time of even greedy algorithms can be quite high. This is because for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-09 Rajiv Khanna , Ethan Elenberg , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sahand Negahban , Joydeep Ghosh

This paper addresses the correspondence between linear inequalities of Shannon entropy and differential entropy for sums of independent group-valued random variables. We show that any balanced (with the sum of coefficients being zero)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Ashok Vardhan Makkuva , Yihong Wu

Recently, two extensions of Wyner's common information\textemdash exact and R\'enyi common informations\textemdash were introduced respectively by Kumar, Li, and El Gamal (KLE), and the present authors. The class of common information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Lei Yu , Vincent Y. F. Tan

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

In this note, we present two general classes of integral inequalities motivated by their applications to infinite dimensional systems. The inequalities possess general structures in terms of weight functions and lower quadratic bounds. Many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Qian Feng , Sing Kiong Nguang

We consider the problem of maximizing submodular functions; while this problem is known to be NP-hard, several numerically efficient local search techniques with approximation guarantees are available. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-11 K. S. Sesh Kumar , Francis Bach

Accurately matching visual and textual data in cross-modal retrieval has been widely studied in the multimedia community. To address these challenges posited by the heterogeneity gap and the semantic gap, we propose integrating Shannon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wei Chen , Yu Liu , Erwin M. Bakker , Michael S. Lew

Learning an appropriate (dis)similarity function from the available data is a central problem in machine learning, since the success of many machine learning algorithms critically depends on the choice of a similarity function to compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Zheng-Chu Guo , Yiming Ying

We discuss linear programming techniques that help to deduce corollaries of non classic inequalities for Shannon's entropy. We focus on direct applications of the copy lemma. These applications involve implicitly some (known or unknown)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Emirhan Gürpınar , Andrei Romashchenko

In this paper, we establish some new Hadamard type inequalities for s-logarithmically convex functions in the second sense via fractional integrals by using Lemma 1 which has been proved by Sarikaya et al. in the paper [3].

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-12-10 Havva Kavurmaci , Mevlut Tunc

The entropy of a graph is an information-theoretic quantity which expresses the complexity of a graph \cite{DM1,M}. After Shannon introduced the definition of entropy to information and communication, many generalizations of the entropy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Xueliang Li , Zhongmei Qin , Meiqin Wei , Ivan Gutman , Matthias Dehmer