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In Shannon's seminal paper, entropy of printed English, treated as a stationary stochastic process, was estimated to be roughly 1 bit per character. However, considered as a means of communication, language differs considerably from its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Doron Sivan , Misha Tsodyks

We use the method of maximum entropy to model physical space as a curved statistical manifold. It is then natural to use information geometry to explain the geometry of space. We find that the resultant information metric does not describe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Ariel Caticha

Complex adaptive systems (CAS) can be described as systems of information flows dynamically interacting across scales in order to adapt and survive. CAS often consist of many components that work towards a shared goal, and interact across…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Louisa Jane Di Felice , Ada Diaconescu , Payam Zahadat , Patricia Mellodge

This paper introduces time into information theory, gives a more accurate definition of information, and unifies the information in cognition and Shannon information theory. Specially, we consider time as a measure of information, giving a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yilun Liu , Lidong Zhu

Information retrieval (IR) evaluation measures are cornerstones for determining the suitability and task performance efficiency of retrieval systems. Their metric and scale properties enable to compare one system against another to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Fernando Giner

The concept of entropy, firstly introduced in information theory, rapidly became popular in many applied sciences via Shannon's formula to measure the degree of heterogeneity among observations. A rather recent research field aims at…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-20 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

The electrical activity of external anal sphincter can be registered with surface electromyography. This signals are known to be highly complex and nonlinear. This work aims in characterisation of the information carried in the signals by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Paulina Trybek , Michal Nowakowski , Jerzy Salowka , Lukasz Machura

We present a theory for modeling the structure of information and a language (Quanta) expressing the theory. Unlike Shannon's information theory, which focuses on the amount of information in an information system, we focus on the structure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Bruce Long

Entropy and information provide natural measures of correlation among elements in a network. We construct here the information theoretic analog of connected correlation functions: irreducible $N$--point correlation is measured by a decrease…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Elad Schneidman , Susanne Still , Michael J. Berry , William Bialek

In this paper, we present some results on information, complexity and entropy as defined below and we discuss their relations with the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy which is the most important invariant of a dynamical system. These results have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-17 Vieri Benci , Claudio Bonanno , Stefano Galatolo , Giulia Menconi , Federico Ponchio

In information theory, Fisher information and Shannon information (entropy) are respectively used to quantify the uncertainty associated with the distribution modeling and the uncertainty in specifying the outcome of given variables. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-27 Huangjie Zheng , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Jia Wang

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

The advances and development of various machine learning techniques has lead to practical solutions in various areas of science, engineering, medicine and finance. The great choice of algorithms, their implementations and libraries has…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-10-04 Roman Belavkin , Panos Pardalos , Jose Principe

Information geometric techniques and inductive inference methods hold great promise for solving computational problems of interest in classical and quantum physics, especially with regard to complexity characterization of dynamical systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. A. Ali , C. Cafaro , A. Giffin , D. -H. Kim

This paper develops computable metrics to assign priorities for information collection on network systems made up by binary components. Components are worth inspecting because their condition state is uncertain and the system functioning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Chaochao Lin , Junho Song , Matteo Pozzi

Kolmogorov argued that the concept of information exists also in problems with no underlying stochastic model (as Shannon's information representation) for instance, the information contained in an algorithm or in the genome. He introduced…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-01 Joel Ratsaby

Configurational entropy (CE) and configurational complexity (CC) are recently popularized information theoretic measures used to study the stability of solitons. This paper examines their behavior for 2D and 3D lattice Ising Models, where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-06 Damian R Sowinski , Sean Kelty , Gourab Ghoshal

It is shown that the standard expression for the information entropy, originally due to Shannon, is only valid for a particular set of states. For the general case of statistical mechanics, one needs to include an additional term in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-26 Phil Attard

Inference and learning are commonly cast in terms of optimisation, yet the fundamental constraints governing uncertainty reduction remain unclear. This work presents a first-principles framework inherent to Bayesian updating, termed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Takuya Isomura

Entropic measures provide analytic tools to help us understand correlation in quantum systems. In our previous work, we calculated linear entropy and von Neumann entropy as entanglement measures for the ground state and lower lying excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Chien-Hao Lin , Yew Kam Ho