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Negentropy (1,225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

In information theory and statistics, negentropy is used as a measure of distance to normality. It is also known as negative entropy or syntropy. The
History of entropy (3,131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
coined the term entropy. Since the mid-20th century the concept of entropy has found application in the field of information theory, describing an analogous
Timeline of information theory (893 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
between information theory, inference and machine learning in his book. 2006 – Jarosław Duda introduces first Asymmetric numeral systems entropy coding:
Measure-preserving dynamical system (3,592 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
crucial role in the construction of the measure-theoretic entropy of a dynamical system. The entropy of a partition Q {\displaystyle {\mathcal {Q}}} is defined
Tsallis entropy (2,881 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
identical in form to Havrda–Charvát structural α-entropy, introduced in 1967 within information theory. Given a discrete set of probabilities { p i } {\displaystyle
Ascendency (536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
trophic network. Ascendency is derived using mathematical tools from information theory. It is intended to capture in a single index the ability of an ecosystem
Maximal entropy random walk (2,814 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A maximal entropy random walk (MERW) is a popular type of biased random walk on a graph, in which transition probabilities are chosen accordingly to the
Maximum entropy thermodynamics (3,612 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
inference techniques rooted in Shannon information theory, Bayesian probability, and the principle of maximum entropy. These techniques are relevant to any
Entropy (journal) (475 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Entropy is a monthly open access scientific journal covering research on all aspects of entropy and information theory. It was established in 1999 and
Von Neumann entropy (5,061 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
entropy from classical information theory. For a quantum-mechanical system described by a density matrix ρ, the von Neumann entropy is S = − tr ⁡ ( ρ ln
Maximum entropy spectral estimation (598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
which corresponds to the concept of maximum entropy as used in both statistical mechanics and information theory, is maximally non-committal with regard to
Entropic gravity (3,737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Entropic gravity, also known as emergent gravity, is a theory in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force—a force with macro-scale homogeneity
Uncertainty coefficient (667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In statistics, the uncertainty coefficient, also called proficiency, entropy coefficient or Theil's U, is a measure of nominal association. It was first
Edwin Thompson Jaynes (512 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
1957 the maximum entropy interpretation of thermodynamics as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although
Conditional quantum entropy (582 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
entropy is an entropy measure used in quantum information theory. It is a generalization of the conditional entropy of classical information theory.
Mark Pinsker (437 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Шлемо́вич Пи́нскер) was a noted Russian mathematician in the fields of information theory, probability theory, coding theory, ergodic theory, mathematical statistics
Loschmidt's paradox (1,682 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of Boltzmann, which employed kinetic theory to explain the increase of entropy in an ideal gas from a non-equilibrium state, when the molecules of the
Generalized entropy index (1,006 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The generalized entropy index has been proposed as a measure of income inequality in a population. It is derived from information theory as a measure of
Nonextensive entropy (96 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
has proposed a nonextensive entropy (Tsallis entropy), which is a generalization of the traditional Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy. The rationale behind the theory
Entropy power inequality (563 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In information theory, the entropy power inequality (EPI) is a result that relates to so-called "entropy power" of random variables. It shows that the
Inequalities in information theory (1,850 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Transactions on Information Theory. 43 (6): 1924–1934. doi:10.1109/18.641556.) Zhang, Z.; Yeung, R. W. (1998). "On characterization of entropy function via
Entropic uncertainty (2,551 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum mechanics, information theory, and Fourier analysis, the entropic uncertainty or Hirschman uncertainty is defined as the sum of the temporal
Divergence (statistics) (2,629 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
important divergence is relative entropy (also called Kullback–Leibler divergence), which is central to information theory. There are numerous other specific
Quantum relative entropy (2,421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, quantum relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability between two quantum states. It is the quantum mechanical analog
Dual total correlation (1,282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In information theory, dual total correlation, information rate, excess entropy, or binding information is one of several known non-negative generalizations
Coherent information (310 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Coherent information is an entropy measure used in quantum information theory. It is a property of a quantum state ρ and a quantum channel N {\displaystyle
Quantum statistical mechanics (2,036 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Shannon entropy from classical information theory. For a quantum-mechanical system described by a density matrix ρ, the von Neumann entropy is S = −
Hartley function (787 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
known as the Hartley entropy or max-entropy. The Hartley function coincides with the Shannon entropy (as well as with the Rényi entropies of all orders) in
Strong subadditivity of quantum entropy (4,718 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, strong subadditivity of quantum entropy (SSA) is the relation among the von Neumann entropies of various quantum subsystems
Graph entropy (914 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In information theory, the graph entropy is a measure of the information rate achievable by communicating symbols over a channel in which certain pairs
Joint quantum entropy (827 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The joint quantum entropy generalizes the classical joint entropy to the context of quantum information theory. Intuitively, given two quantum states ρ
Quantum mutual information (1,053 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, quantum mutual information, or von Neumann mutual information, after John von Neumann, is a measure of correlation between
Landauer's principle (1,619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
limit Bekenstein bound Kolmogorov complexity Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory Information theory Jarzynski equality Limits of computation
Interaction information (2,426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In probability theory and information theory, the interaction information is a generalization of the mutual information for more than two variables. There
Information source (mathematics) (188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
finite alphabet Γ, having a stationary distribution. The uncertainty, or entropy rate, of an information source is defined as H { X } = lim n → ∞ H ( X
Typical set (2,051 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In information theory, the typical set is a set of sequences whose probability is close to two raised to the negative power of the entropy of their source
Statistical mechanics (5,068 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
variety of fields such as biology, neuroscience, computer science, information theory and sociology. Its main purpose is to clarify the properties of matter
Cycles of Time (606 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Thermodynamics and its inevitable march toward a maximum entropy state of the universe. Penrose illustrates entropy in terms of information state phase space (with
Min-entropy (2,716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The min-entropy, in information theory, is the smallest of the Rényi family of entropies, corresponding to the most conservative way of measuring the unpredictability
History of information theory (1,725 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in the 1960s, are explored further in the article Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory). The publication of Shannon's 1948 paper, "A Mathematical
Partition function (mathematics) (3,384 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
function or configuration integral, as used in probability theory, information theory and dynamical systems, is a generalization of the definition of a
Directed information (3,106 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
2012). "The Relation between Granger Causality and Directed Information Theory: A Review". Entropy. 15 (1): 113–143. arXiv:1211.3169. Bibcode:2012Entrp..15
Arieh Ben-Naim (924 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Entropy, the Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth, and in Information, Entropy, Life and the Universe. Third, the application of entropy and
Timeline of thermodynamics (3,324 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
saturated steam will be negative 1850 – Rudolf Clausius coined the term "entropy" (das Wärmegewicht, symbolized S) to denote heat lost or turned into waste
Schmidt decomposition (1,331 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
two inner product spaces. It has numerous applications in quantum information theory, for example in entanglement characterization and in state purification
Fano's inequality (1,504 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In information theory, Fano's inequality (also known as the Fano converse and the Fano lemma) relates the average information lost in a noisy channel to
Chain rule for Kolmogorov complexity (771 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kolmogorov complexity is an analogue of the chain rule for information entropy, which states: H ( X , Y ) = H ( X ) + H ( Y | X ) {\displaystyle H(X,Y)=H(X)+H(Y|X)}
Entropic vector (2,469 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
entropic vector or entropic function is a concept arising in information theory. It represents the possible values of Shannon's information entropy that
Integrated information theory (4,990 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Scaling Behaviour and Critical Phase Transitions in Integrated Information Theory". Entropy. 21 (12): 1198. Bibcode:2019Entrp..21.1198A. doi:10.3390/e21121198
Nat (unit) (403 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
sometimes also nit or nepit, is a unit of information or information entropy, based on natural logarithms and powers of e, rather than the powers of
Raymond W. Yeung (685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
on the entropy function. He also pioneered the machine-proving of entropy inequalities. Yeung has published two textbooks on information theory and network
Thomas M. Cover (437 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Maximum Entropy". Elements of Information Theory (2 ed.). Wiley. ISBN 0471241954. T. Cover, J. Thomas (1991). Elements of Information Theory. ISBN 0-471-06259-6
Grammatical Man (724 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Yellow Peril, introduces the concept of entropy and gives brief outlines of the histories of Information Theory and cybernetics, examining World War II
Masanori Ohya (358 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sc., he continuously worked on operator algebra, quantum entropy, quantum information theory and bio-information. He achieved results in the fields of
Connes embedding problem (1,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
several different areas of mathematics. Dan Voiculescu developing his free entropy theory found that Connes' embedding problem is related to the existence
Pointwise mutual information (1,860 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In statistics, probability theory and information theory, pointwise mutual information (PMI), or point mutual information, is a measure of association
History of thermodynamics (3,780 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
chemical kinetics, to more distant applied fields such as meteorology, information theory, and biology (physiology), and to technological developments such
Unicity distance (980 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle U=H(k)/D} where U is the unicity distance, H(k) is the entropy of the key space (e.g. 128 for 2128 equiprobable keys, rather less if the
Entanglement-assisted classical capacity (361 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Transactions on Information Theory, 50(10):2429-2434, October 2004. arXiv:quant-ph/0209076 . Wilde, Mark M. (2013), Quantum Information Theory, Cambridge University
Surprisal analysis (1,332 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cancer cells. Information content Information theory Singular value decomposition Principal component analysis Entropy Decision tree learning Information
Password strength (6,426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
specified by the amount of information entropy, which is measured in shannon (Sh) and is a concept from information theory. It can be regarded as the minimum
Info-metrics (2,101 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
here: http://info-metrics.org/bibliography.html Information theory Entropy Principle of maximum entropy Inference Statistical inference Constrained optimization
Purity (quantum mechanics) (2,235 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In quantum mechanics, and especially quantum information theory, the purity of a normalized quantum state is a scalar defined as γ ≡ tr ⁡ ( ρ 2 ) {\displaystyle
Generalized relative entropy (1,983 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
analogue of quantum relative entropy and shares many properties of the latter quantity. In the study of quantum information theory, we typically assume that
Total correlation (1,437 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nemenman I (2004). Information theory, multivariate dependence, and genetic network inference [2]. Rothstein J (1952). Organization and entropy, Journal of Applied
Quantum entanglement (13,888 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the entropy of a mixed state is discussed as well as how it can be viewed as a measure of quantum entanglement. In classical information theory H, the
Göran Lindblad (physicist) (508 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
contributions in mathematical physics and quantum information theory, having to do with open quantum systems, entropy inequalities, and quantum measurements. Lindblad
Melodic expectation (2,268 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
concepts originating from the field of information theory such as entropy. Hybridization of information theory and humanities results in the birth of
Log probability (938 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
interpretation in terms of information theory: the negative expected value of the log probabilities is the information entropy of an event. Similarly, likelihoods
No-hiding theorem (950 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
noted that the conservation of entropy holds for a quantum system undergoing unitary time evolution and that if entropy represents information in quantum
State-merging (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, quantum state merging is the transfer of a quantum state when the receiver already has part of the state. The process optimally
Holographic principle (3,969 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
bound of black hole thermodynamics, which conjectures that the maximum entropy in any region scales with the radius squared, rather than cubed as might
Maximum-entropy random graph model (1,471 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Maximum-entropy random graph models are random graph models used to study complex networks subject to the principle of maximum entropy under a set of structural
Lieb conjecture (264 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, the Lieb conjecture is a theorem concerning the Wehrl entropy of quantum systems for which the classical phase space is
Dénes Petz (565 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mathematical Society of Hungary quantum entropy quantum information theory quantum information geometry Rényi relative entropy quantum Fisher information Masanori
Statistical distance (643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
such as contrast function and metric. Terms from information theory include cross entropy, relative entropy, discrimination information, and information gain
Binary combinatory logic (435 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
MR 2427553. Devine, Sean (2009), "The insights of algorithmic entropy", Entropy, 11 (1): 85–110, Bibcode:2009Entrp..11...85D, doi:10.3390/e11010085
Decoding the Universe (445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Foundations of Information Theory, New York: Dover, 1957. ISBN 0-486-60434-9 H. S. Leff and A. F. Rex, Editors, Maxwell's Demon: Entropy, Information,
Binary erasure channel (533 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In coding theory and information theory, a binary erasure channel (BEC) is a communications channel model. A transmitter sends a bit (a zero or a one)
Synergy (5,772 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Irreversible Thermodynamics? Synergy Increases Free Energy by Decreasing Entropy". Qeios. doi:10.32388/2VWCJG.5. Corning PA (2003). Nature's magic : synergy
Elliott H. Lieb (3,206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
proved the strong subadditivity of quantum entropy, a theorem that is fundamental for quantum information theory. This is closely related to what is known
Free probability (682 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
combinatorics, representations of symmetric groups, large deviations, quantum information theory and other theories were established. Free probability is currently
Gauss–Kuzmin distribution (569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
book}}: |journal= ignored (help) Vepstas, L. (2008), Entropy of Continued Fractions (Gauss-Kuzmin Entropy) (PDF) Weisstein, Eric W. "Gauss–Kuzmin Distribution"
List of inequalities (709 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of a linear combination of bounded random variables Emery's inequality Entropy power inequality Etemadi's inequality Fannes–Audenaert inequality Fano's
Thermal physics (348 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Information theory Philosophy of thermal and statistical physics Thermodynamic instruments Chang Lee, Joon (2001). Thermal Physics – Entropy and Free Energies
Carlton M. Caves (1,351 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the areas of physics of information; information, entropy, and complexity; quantum information theory; quantum chaos, quantum optics; the theory of non-classical
Ryu–Takayanagi conjecture (1,507 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
another type of entropy that is important in quantum information theory, namely the entanglement (or von Neumann) entropy. This form of entropy provides a
Second law of thermodynamics (15,472 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
process." The second law of thermodynamics establishes the concept of entropy as a physical property of a thermodynamic system. It predicts whether processes
Entanglement distillation (6,316 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
state, analogous to the concept of Shannon entropy in classical information theory.: 880  Von Neumann entropy measures how "mixed" or "pure" a quantum state
Firewall (physics) (1,647 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
the half-way point of evaporation, general arguments from quantum-information theory by Page and Lubkin suggest that the new Hawking radiation must be
Poisson binomial distribution (2,600 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Binomial and Poisson distributions as maximum entropy distributions" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 47 (5): 2039–2041. doi:10.1109/18.930936
Quantum discord (2,737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, quantum discord is a measure of nonclassical correlations between two subsystems of a quantum system. It includes correlations
Quantum thermodynamics (5,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
accounts for the entropy change before and after a change in the entire system. A dynamical viewpoint is based on local accounting for the entropy changes in
Density matrix (5,446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
_{i},} is given by the von Neumann entropies of the states ρ i {\displaystyle \rho _{i}} and the Shannon entropy of the probability distribution p i
Michał Horodecki (294 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
physicist at the University of Gdańsk working in the field of quantum information theory, notable for his work on entanglement theory. He co-discovered the
Noisy-channel coding theorem (2,786 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In information theory, the noisy-channel coding theorem (sometimes Shannon's theorem or Shannon's limit), establishes that for any given degree of noise
Jensen–Shannon divergence (2,308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
S(\rho )} is the von Neumann entropy of ρ {\displaystyle \rho } . This quantity was introduced in quantum information theory, where it is called the Holevo
Information-theoretic security (1,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
American mathematician Claude Shannon, one of the founders of classical information theory, who used it to prove the one-time pad system was secure. Information-theoretically
Large deviations theory (2,633 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
x} approaches 1 {\displaystyle 1} . It is the negative of the Bernoulli entropy with p = 1 2 {\displaystyle p={\tfrac {1}{2}}} ; that it's appropriate
Binary symmetric channel (2,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is a common communications channel model used in coding theory and information theory. In this model, a transmitter wishes to send a bit (a zero or a one)
Entanglement of formation (828 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
B {\displaystyle \rho _{B}} , have the same spectrum. The von Neumann entropy S ( ρ A ) = S ( ρ B ) {\displaystyle S(\rho _{A})=S(\rho _{B})} of the
Braunstein–Ghosh–Severini entropy (201 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Kartik; Bianconi, Ginestra (13 October 2009). "Entropy measures for networks: Toward an information theory of complex topologies". Physical Review E. 80
Glossary of quantum computing (5,490 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
verification, estimating correlation functions, and predicting entanglement entropy. Cloud-based quantum computing is the invocation of quantum emulators,
Typical subspace (1,198 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, the idea of a typical subspace plays an important role in the proofs of many coding theorems (the most prominent example
Econophysics (3,239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
have stock markets with higher entropy and lower complexity, while those markets from emerging countries have lower entropy and higher complexity. Moreover
Code (1,981 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
useful when clear text characters have different probabilities; see also entropy encoding. A prefix code is a code with the "prefix property": there is
Code (1,981 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
useful when clear text characters have different probabilities; see also entropy encoding. A prefix code is a code with the "prefix property": there is
Quantum catalyst (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, a quantum catalyst is a special ancillary quantum state whose presence enables certain local transformations that would
Income inequality metrics (7,824 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"actual entropy" of a system consisting of income and income earners. Also based on information theory, the gap between these two entropies can be called
Erik Verlinde (1,479 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the Dutch Spinoza-institute on 8 December 2009 he introduced a theory of entropic gravity. In this theory, gravity exists because of a difference in concentration
Systems science (1,066 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Extremal principles in non-equilibrium thermodynamics (6,097 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Energy dissipation and entropy production extremal principles are ideas developed within non-equilibrium thermodynamics that attempt to predict the likely
Marina Huerta (667 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in geometric entropy in quantum field theory, holography, quantum gravity and quantum information theory. She uses interlacing entropy as an indicator
Gibbs paradox (5,196 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
semi-classical derivation of entropy that does not take into account the indistinguishability of particles yields an expression for entropy which is not extensive
A Mathematical Theory of Communication (846 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cited scientific papers of all time, as it gave rise to the field of information theory, with Scientific American referring to the paper as the "Magna Carta
Sophistication (complexity theory) (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In algorithmic information theory, sophistication is a measure of complexity related to algorithmic entropy. When K is the Kolmogorov complexity and c
Models of collaborative tagging (2,827 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
documents. Information theory provides a framework to understand the amount of shared information between two random variables. The conditional entropy measures
Hyperbolastic functions (7,041 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cross-entropy compares the observed y ∈ { 0 , 1 } {\displaystyle y\in \{0,1\}} with the predicted probabilities. The average binary cross-entropy for hyperbolastic
Philosophy of physics (4,416 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
arrow of time. Foundations of thermodynamics, role of information theory in understanding entropy, and implications for explanation and reduction in physics
Code rate (244 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In telecommunication and information theory, the code rate (or information rate) of a forward error correction code is the proportion of the data-stream
Quantum circuit (3,343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, a quantum circuit is a model for quantum computation, similar to classical circuits, in which a computation is a sequence
Laplace's demon (1,410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
with early 19th century developments of the concepts of irreversibility, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics. In other words, Laplace's demon
Entropy network (605 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Anand, Kartik; Bianconi, Ginestra (2009). "Entropy Measures for Networks: Toward an Information Theory of Complex Topologies". Physical Review E. 80
Thad McIntosh Guyer (2,411 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Guyer developed an information theory framework for the proper functioning of whistleblower reporting channels that relies on entropy and Shannon information
Quantum complex network (2,116 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
small world effect, community structure, or scale-free. In quantum information theory, qubits are analogous to bits in classical systems. A qubit is a quantum
No-communication theorem (2,447 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
referred to as the no-signaling principle) is a no-go theorem in quantum information theory. It asserts that during the measurement of an entangled quantum state
Josiah Willard Gibbs (10,229 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
microstate (see Gibbs entropy formula). This same formula would later play a central role in Claude Shannon's information theory and is therefore often
Fitts's law (3,928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jian; Ren, Xiangshi (2011). "The Entropy of a Rapid Aimed Movement: Fitts' Index of Difficulty versus Shannon's Entropy". Human Computer Interaction: 222–239
Relevance (1,725 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
variable e in terms of its entropy. One can then subtract the content of e that is irrelevant to h (given by its conditional entropy conditioned on h) from
Exergy (11,030 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theorem). Where entropy production may be calculated as the net increase in entropy of the system together with its surroundings. Entropy production is
Thermodynamic beta (1,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the connection between the information theory and statistical mechanics interpretation of a physical system through its entropy and the thermodynamics associated
Measurement in quantum mechanics (8,320 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Neumann entropy is S ( ρ ) = − ∑ i λ i log ⁡ λ i . {\displaystyle S(\rho )=-\sum _{i}\lambda _{i}\log \lambda _{i}.} This is the Shannon entropy of the
Subadditivity (2,950 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
negative of a subadditive function is superadditive. Entropy plays a fundamental role in information theory and statistical physics, as well as in quantum mechanics
Information geometry (1,015 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
metric. All presented above geometric structures find application in information theory and machine learning. For such models, there is a natural choice of
Leftover hash lemma (588 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
length asymptotic to H ∞ ( X ) {\displaystyle H_{\infty }(X)} (the min-entropy of X) bits from a random variable X) that are almost uniformly distributed
Error-correcting codes with feedback (397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In mathematics, computer science, telecommunication, information theory, and searching theory, error-correcting codes with feedback are error correcting
Effective complexity (184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the system are to be discounted as random. Kolmogorov complexity Excess entropy Logical depth Renyi information Self-dissimilarity Forecasting complexity
Robert M. Gray (595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing (1986, revised 2007) Entropy and Information Theory (1991, revised 2007) Source Coding Theory (1990) Vector Quantization
Fisher information metric (4,849 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
It can also be understood to be the infinitesimal form of the relative entropy (i.e., the Kullback–Leibler divergence); specifically, it is the Hessian
Communication theory (4,399 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
developed information entropy as a measure for the uncertainty in a message while essentially inventing the field of information theory. "The fundamental
Free energy principle (6,415 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of surprise is entropy. This means that if a system acts to minimise free energy, it will implicitly place an upper bound on the entropy of the outcomes
Exponential distribution (6,647 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
distribution with λ = 1/μ has the largest differential entropy. In other words, it is the maximum entropy probability distribution for a random variate X which
Squashed entanglement (2,131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Neumann entropy of density matrix ϱ {\displaystyle \varrho } . CMI entanglement has its roots in classical (non-quantum) information theory, as we explain
Dyadic distribution (118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
average code length that is equal to the entropy. Cover, T.M., Joy A. Thomas, J.A. (2006) Elements of information theory, Wiley. ISBN 0-471-24195-4 Cover, T
Squashed entanglement (2,131 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Neumann entropy of density matrix ϱ {\displaystyle \varrho } . CMI entanglement has its roots in classical (non-quantum) information theory, as we explain
Additive white Gaussian noise (2,962 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) is a basic noise model used in information theory to mimic the effect of many random processes that occur in nature
Wavelet packet decomposition (1,273 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
& Wickerhauser M. V., 1992. Entropy-Based Algorithms for Best Basis Selection, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 38(2). A. N. Akansu and Y. Liu
Prior probability (6,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mainly on the consequences of symmetries and on the principle of maximum entropy. As an example of an a priori prior, due to Jaynes (2003), consider a situation
Medical cybernetics (1,141 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
physiological layers. This attempt also includes theories on the information theory of the genetic code. Connectionism: Connectionistic models describe
Truncated normal distribution (2,282 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
1973). "Maximum-entropy distributions having prescribed first and second moments (Corresp.)". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 19 (5): 689–693
Maximal information coefficient (1,084 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
previously. Entropy is maximized by uniform probability distributions, or in this case, bins with the same number of elements. Also, joint entropy is minimized
Reversible computing (3,024 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Maximum entropy thermodynamics – Application of information theory to thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, on
Mary Beth Ruskai (889 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Quantum Entropy, which was described in 2005 as "the key result on which virtually every nontrivial quantum coding theorem (in quantum information theory) relies"
Ensemble learning (6,685 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
used to produce a stronger ensemble than very deliberate algorithms (like entropy-reducing decision trees). Using a variety of strong learning algorithms
Entropic value at risk (2,016 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
concept of relative entropy. Because of its connection with the VaR and the relative entropy, this risk measure is called "entropic value at risk". The
Nicolas J. Cerf (487 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
quantum version of conditional and mutual entropies, which are basic notions of Shannon's information theory, and discovered that quantum information could
Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference (2,113 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
basis in the dynamical (state-space model) character of Algorithmic Information Theory, it encompasses statistical as well as dynamical information criteria
Henri Daniel Rathgeber (431 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
most important contribution to be an economic theory that explain how entropy causes unemployment. Rathgeber was born in Montmartre, Paris on 11 June
Quantum capacity (1,981 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
p_{Z}\right)} and H ( p ) {\displaystyle H\left(\mathbf {p} \right)} is the entropy of this probability vector. Proof. Consider correcting only the typical
EPI (324 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to: Epigraph (mathematics) Epimorphism Entropy power inequality, a result that relates to so-called "entropy power" of random variables Extreme physical
Diffusion process (1,102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
It is used heavily in statistical physics, statistical analysis, information theory, data science, neural networks, finance and marketing. A sample path
Siegel modular variety (1,147 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
forms to higher dimensions. They also have applications to black hole entropy and conformal field theory. The Siegel modular variety Ag, which parametrize
Keith Martin Ball (552 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of functional analysis, high-dimensional and discrete geometry and information theory. He is the author of Strange Curves, Counting Rabbits, & Other Mathematical
Randomness (4,316 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Randomness applies to concepts of chance, probability, and information entropy. The fields of mathematics, probability, and statistics use formal definitions
Ramon Margalef (919 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
as a member of the Barcelona Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, "Information Theory in Ecology", he gained a worldwide audience. Another groundbreaking
Qualitative variation (15,020 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
multigroup entropy index or the information theory index. It was proposed by Theil in 1972. The index is a weighted average of the samples entropy. Let E
Formation matrix (272 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In statistics and information theory, the expected formation matrix of a likelihood function L ( θ ) {\displaystyle L(\theta )} is the matrix inverse of
Decision tree learning (6,542 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Information gain is based on the concept of entropy and information content from information theory. Entropy is defined as below H ( T ) = I E ⁡ ( p 1
Solomon W. Golomb (919 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
communications research. Golomb was the inventor of Golomb coding, a form of entropy encoding. Golomb rulers, used in astronomy and data encryption, are also
List of algorithms (7,951 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
coding: precursor to arithmetic encoding Entropy coding with known entropy characteristics Golomb coding: form of entropy coding that is optimal for alphabets
Cauchy distribution (6,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jensen–Shannon divergence, Hellinger distance, etc. are available. The entropy of the Cauchy distribution is given by: H ( γ ) = − ∫ − ∞ ∞ f ( x ; x 0
Random walk (7,703 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
same probability as maximizing uncertainty (entropy) locally. We could also do it globally – in maximal entropy random walk (MERW) we want all paths to be
Comparison sort (2,640 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
average. This can be most easily seen using concepts from information theory. The Shannon entropy of such a random permutation is log2(n!) bits. Since a
Hubert Yockey (329 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(1958). Symposium on Information Theory in Biology. Pergamon Press. Mathematical and theoretical biology Systems biology Entropy and life "Dr. Hubert
Poisson distribution (11,215 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Binomial and Poisson distributions as maximum entropy distributions". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 47 (5): 2039–2041. doi:10.1109/18.930936.
Gibbs sampling (6,064 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
posterior mutual information, posterior differential entropy, and posterior conditional differential entropy, respectively. We can similarly define information
String theory (15,295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
systems such as gases, the entropy scales with the volume. In the 1970s, the physicist Jacob Bekenstein suggested that the entropy of a black hole is instead
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (1,034 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Gleick examines the history of intellectual insights central to information theory, detailing the key figures responsible such as Claude Shannon, Charles
Theoretical physics (2,624 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
vibrating string and the musical tone it produces. Other examples include entropy as a measure of the uncertainty regarding the positions and motions of
Leslie Stephen George Kovasznay (986 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
still in use. He was also one of the first to apply the statistical "information theory" of Claude Shannon to photographic measurements, treating the film
Set redundancy compression (636 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In computer science and information theory, set redundancy compression are methods of data compression that exploits redundancy between individual data
Zipf–Mandelbrot law (684 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Evolutionary Music and Art (EvoMUSART2003). 611. Mandelbrot, Benoît (1965). "Information Theory and Psycholinguistics". In B. B. Wolman and E. Nagel (ed.). Scientific
Quantum depolarizing channel (1,324 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
general. This was proved by showing that the additivity of minimum output entropy for all channels doesn't hold, which is an equivalent conjecture. Nonetheless
Maria Longobardi (mathematician) (171 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
analysis, her research has focused on mathematical statistics, information theory, entropy, and extropy. Longobardi earned a laurea (the Italian equivalent
Beta distribution (40,562 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the discrete entropy. It is known since then that the differential entropy may differ from the infinitesimal limit of the discrete entropy by an infinite
Ensemble (mathematical physics) (4,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
measure serves to maximize the entropy of a system, subject to a set of constraints: this is the principle of maximum entropy. This principle has now been
Concatenated error correction code (2,094 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
1966). "Generalized Minimum Distance Decoding". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 12 (2): 125–131. doi:10.1109/TIT.1966.1053873. Yu, Christopher C
BEF (139 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Belgian franc, a defunct currency (ISO 4217:BEF) Binary entropy function, in information theory Bonus Expeditionary Force, an American veterans' protest
LOCC (3,089 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
local operations and classical communication, is a method in quantum information theory where a local (product) operation is performed on part of the system
F-divergence (3,992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Alfréd Rényi in the same paper where he introduced the well-known Rényi entropy. He proved that these divergences decrease in Markov processes. f-divergences
Hans Grassmann (1,484 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
information theory nor algorithmic information theory contain any physics variables. The variable entropy used in information theory is not a state function; therefore
Forecast verification (611 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
uncertainty?" Christensen et al. (1981) used entropy minimax entropy minimax pattern discovery based on information theory to advance the science of long range
Logarithmic Schrödinger equation (1,265 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
physics, transport and diffusion phenomena, open quantum systems and information theory, effective quantum gravity and physical vacuum models and theory of
Diffusion (8,686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
several fields beyond physics, such as statistics, probability theory, information theory, neural networks, finance, and marketing. The concept of diffusion
Normalized compression distance (1,970 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of relative entropy between individual sequences with application to universal classification". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 39 (4): 1270–1279
Organism (2,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"anti-entropy", the ability to maintain order, a concept first proposed by Erwin Schrödinger; or in another form, that Claude Shannon's information theory can
Léon Brillouin (1,417 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
applied information theory to physics and the design of computers and coined the concept of negentropy to demonstrate the similarity between entropy and information
John Scales Avery (717 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
quantum chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. His 2003 book Information Theory and Evolution set forth the view that the phenomenon of life, including
Z-channel (information theory) (981 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In coding theory and information theory, a Z-channel or binary asymmetric channel is a communications channel used to model the behaviour of some data
Independent component analysis (7,462 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
algorithms uses measures like Kullback-Leibler Divergence and maximum entropy. The non-Gaussianity family of ICA algorithms, motivated by the central
Multivariate normal distribution (9,594 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
NJ (May 1989). "Entropy Expressions and Their Estimators for Multivariate Distributions". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 35 (3): 688–692.
Kadir–Brady saliency detector (3,172 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
stable under these types of image change. In the field of Information theory Shannon entropy is defined to quantify the complexity of a distribution p
Complex system (4,941 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
problems in many diverse disciplines, including statistical physics, information theory, nonlinear dynamics, anthropology, computer science, meteorology,
Self-organized criticality (3,042 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
2449. S2CID 119392131. Dewar R (2003). "Information theory explanation of the fluctuation theorem, maximum entropy production and self-organized criticality
Gaussian adaptation (3,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
as compared to "the evolution in the brain" above. Entropy in thermodynamics and information theory Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection Free
Classical shadow (731 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
verification, estimating correlation functions, and predicting entanglement entropy. Recently, researchers have built on classical shadow to devise provably
Cybernetical physics (3,035 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
methods are understood as methods developed within control theory, information theory, systems theory and related areas: control design, estimation, identification
Hirotugu Akaike (2,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
203–277, doi:10.1007/bf02506337, S2CID 189780584. Akaike, H. (1973), "Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle", in Petrov,
Self-organization (6,806 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
elsewhere in the system (e.g. through consuming the low-entropy energy of a battery and diffusing high-entropy heat). 18th-century thinkers had sought to understand
Peter Corning (961 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the Role of Synergy in Evolution." Evolutionary Theory 1996. To be or Entropy: Or Thermodynamics, Information and Life Revisited, A Comic Opera in Two
Hidden Markov model (6,811 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mechanics, physics, chemistry, economics, finance, signal processing, information theory, pattern recognition—such as speech, handwriting, gesture recognition
Cybernetics (4,388 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
focuses included purposeful behaviour, neural networks, heterarchy, information theory, and self-organising systems. As cybernetics developed, it became
Alfréd Rényi (1,076 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
conjecture. In information theory, he introduced the spectrum of Rényi entropies of order α, giving an important generalisation of the Shannon entropy and the
Algorithmic probability (2,734 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In algorithmic information theory, algorithmic probability, also known as Solomonoff probability, is a mathematical method of assigning a prior probability
Leo Szilard (7,319 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
equation linking negative entropy and information. This work established Szilard as a foundational figure in information theory; however, he did not publish
The Crying of Lot 49 (4,218 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to establish congruence between entropy in information theory and thermodynamics. Scholars have pointed to the entropic nature and indeterminacy of the
Outline of machine learning (3,386 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
network Markov model Markov random field Markovian discrimination Maximum-entropy Markov model Multi-armed bandit Multi-task learning Multilinear subspace
Karl E. Weick (2,170 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
you cannot impose order on a world that is constantly spiraling toward entropy. While in this is strong reasoning, it makes it difficult for individuals
Brain connectivity estimators (4,874 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
transfer entropy, generalised synchronisation, the continuity measure, synchronization likelihood, and phase synchronization. Transfer entropy has been
Pinsker's inequality (2,109 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the relative entropy and Rényi divergence as a function of total variation distance for finite alphabets". 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop - Fall
Erik Hoel (991 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Examining the Causal Structures of Deep Neural Networks Using Information Theory". Entropy. 22 (12): 1429. Bibcode:2020Entrp..22.1429M. doi:10.3390/e22121429
Constructor theory (1,025 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
However, the link between information and such physical ideas as the entropy in a thermodynamic system is so strong that they are sometimes identified
David Ellerman (858 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
2023 ISBN 9781848904408. New Foundations for Information Theory: Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy. SpringerNature, 2021. ISBN 9783030865528. Putting
Zyablov bound (941 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
, where H q {\displaystyle H_{q}} is the q {\displaystyle q} -ary entropy function H q ( x ) = x log q ⁡ ( q − 1 ) − x log q ⁡ ( x ) − ( 1 − x )
Quantum finite automaton (3,639 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
possible'. This need for uniformity is the underlying principle behind maximum entropy methods: these simply guarantee crisp, compact operation of the automaton
Iterative proportional fitting (3,463 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
JSTOR 2525582. Jaynes E.T. (1957) Information theory and statistical mechanics, Physical Review, 106: 620-30. Wilson A.G. (1970) Entropy in urban and regional modelling
Stochastic thermodynamics (3,683 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
microscopic machine (e.g. a MEM) performs useful work it generates heat and entropy as a byproduct of the process, however it is also predicted that this machine
Polar code (coding theory) (1,308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In information theory, polar codes are a linear block error-correcting codes. The code construction is based on a multiple recursive concatenation of a
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (815 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Chapter 10: Quantum Error-Correction Chapter 11: Entropy and Information Chapter 12: Quantum Information Theory Appendix 1: Notes on Basic Probability Theory
Stochastic thermodynamics (3,683 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
microscopic machine (e.g. a MEM) performs useful work it generates heat and entropy as a byproduct of the process, however it is also predicted that this machine
Polar code (coding theory) (1,308 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In information theory, polar codes are a linear block error-correcting codes. The code construction is based on a multiple recursive concatenation of a
Financial signal processing (823 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theory. He discovered the capacity of a communication channel by analyzing entropy of information. For a long time, financial signal processing technologies
Confusion and diffusion (1,496 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
could be broken. Algorithmic information theory Avalanche effect Substitution–permutation network "Information Theory and Entropy". Model Based Inference in
Neural network (biology) (1,537 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
(neural network models) and theory (statistical learning theory and information theory). Many models are used; defined at different levels of abstraction
Branches of science (3,820 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
systems, such as logic, mathematics, theoretical computer science, information theory, systems theory, decision theory, statistics. Unlike other branches
Ray Solomonoff (3,038 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
universal induction. Entropy, 13(6):1076–1136, 2011. Vitanyi, P. "Obituary: Ray Solomonoff, Founding Father of Algorithmic Information Theory" "An Inductive
Paul Vitányi (571 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Letters; the International journal of Foundations of Computer Science; the Entropy; the Information; the SN Computer Science; the Journal of Computer and
F-distribution (2,271 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
; Rathie, P. (1978). "On the entropy of continuous probability distributions". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 24 (1). IEEE: 120–122. doi:10
Tf–idf (3,078 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Aizawa: "represent the heuristic that tf–idf employs." The conditional entropy of a "randomly chosen" document in the corpus D {\displaystyle D} , conditional
Markov chain (12,900 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
which in a single step created the field of information theory, opens by introducing the concept of entropy by modeling texts in a natural language (such
Entanglement monotone (468 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
well as for multipartite systems. Common entanglement monotones are the entropy of entanglement, concurrence, negativity, squashed entanglement, entanglement
Separable state (2,516 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Entanglement Detection: Complexity and Shannon Entropic Criteria". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 59 (10): 6774–6778. doi:10.1109/TIT.2013.2257936
Binary logarithm (5,128 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
\lfloor \log _{2}n\rfloor +1.} In information theory, the definition of the amount of self-information and information entropy is often expressed with the binary
Markov information source (238 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
hidden Markov models, such as the Viterbi algorithm. Entropy rate Robert B. Ash, Information Theory, (1965) Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-66521-6 v t e
Information bottleneck method (3,604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The information bottleneck method is a technique in information theory introduced by Naftali Tishby, Fernando C. Pereira, and William Bialek. It is designed
John Preskill (475 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014. Topological entanglement entropy Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill codes Katwala, Amit (2020-05-18). "Inside big
Symbolic dynamics (890 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
815–866. doi:10.2307/2371264. JSTOR 2371264. Adler, R.; Weiss, B. (1967). "Entropy, a complete metric invariant for automorphisms of the torus". PNAS. 57
Information metabolism (2,663 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
negentropy, because spontaneous natural processes are always accompanied by entropy generation. Information metabolism may be generally seen as the exchange
Objections to evolution (17,446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
because the enormous increase in entropy due to the Sun and Earth radiating into space dwarfs the local decrease in entropy caused by the existence and evolution
Edward Kofler (1,301 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Behara, E. Kofler and G. Menges, M.; Kofler, E.; Menges, G. (2008). "Entropy and informativity in decision situations under partial information". Statistische
Turbo code (2,728 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In information theory, turbo codes are a class of high-performance forward error correction (FEC) codes developed around 1990–91, but first published in
Robustness (computer science) (1,178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Andrey Kolmogorov (2,791 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity. Andrey Kolmogorov was born in Tambov
Bhattacharyya distance (2,110 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
divergence Hellinger distance Mahalanobis distance Chernoff bound Rényi entropy F-divergence Fidelity of quantum states Dodge, Yadolah (2003). The Oxford
Low-density parity-check code (4,626 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
closely-related turbo codes) have gained prominence in coding theory and information theory since the late 1990s. The codes today are widely used in applications
1948 in science (1,125 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Technical Journal, regarded as a foundation of information theory, introducing the concept of Shannon entropy and adopting the term Bit. December 17 – The
Normal distribution (22,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
variance) are zero. It is also the continuous distribution with the maximum entropy for a specified mean and variance. Geary has shown, assuming that the mean
Reinforcement learning (8,194 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
disciplines, such as game theory, control theory, operations research, information theory, simulation-based optimization, multi-agent systems, swarm intelligence
Frederick Jelinek (3,164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
entropy, redundancy, do not solve all our problems." During the next decade, a combination of factors shut down the application of information theory
Emergence (6,234 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
be an overwhelming determinant in finding regularity in data. The low entropy of an ordered system can be viewed as an example of subjective emergence:
Chow–Liu tree (1,341 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
, … , X n ) {\displaystyle H(X_{1},X_{2},\ldots ,X_{n})} is the joint entropy of variable set { X 1 , X 2 , … , X n } {\displaystyle \{X_{1},X_{2},\ldots
Social dynamics (770 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Chung-Kang Peng (857 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Multiscale entropy (MSE) which measures the complexity of physiological time-series (cited more than 2,600 times). An algorithm, based on information theory and
Henri Theil (713 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
use for this purpose. He is also known for the Theil index, a measure of entropy, which belongs to the class of Kolm-Indices and is used as an inequality
Panpsychism (9,739 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
consciousness, instead opting for mathematically precise alternatives like entropy function and information integration. This has allowed Tononi to create
An Introduction to Cybernetics (917 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ashby addressed adjacent topics in addition to cybernetics such as information theory, communications theory, control theory, game theory and systems theory
Wedderburn–Etherington number (1,473 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
solution to certain differential equations. Catalan number Cryptography Information theory Etherington, I. M. H. (1937), "Non-associate powers and a functional
H. K. Kesavan (406 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
papers and books on systems theory, applications of linear graph theory and entropy optimization principles. Kesavan maintained a lifelong interest in the
Generative art (4,235 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
generative art minimizes entropy and allows maximal data compression, and highly disordered generative art maximizes entropy and disallows significant
Alignment-free sequence analysis (6,400 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
applications of information theory include global and local characterization of DNA, RNA and proteins, estimating genome entropy to motif and region classification
Fourier–Motzkin elimination (2,492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
I(X_{1};X_{2})=H(X_{1})-H(X_{1}|X_{2})} and the non-negativity of conditional entropy, i.e., H ( X 1 | X 2 ) ≥ 0 {\displaystyle H(X_{1}|X_{2})\geq 0} . Shannon-type
Systems thinking (1,995 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Marginal likelihood (992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Statistics. Sage. pp. 109–120. ISBN 978-1-4739-1636-4. The on-line textbook: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, by David J.C. MacKay.
CELT (1,811 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
turn enables for robustness against bit errors and leaves no need for entropy encoding. Finally, all output of the encoder are coded to one bitstream
Lottery mathematics (3,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the Bernoulli entropy function may be used. Using X {\displaystyle X} representing winning the 6-of-49 lottery, the Shannon entropy of 6-of-49 above
Bayesian experimental design (1,437 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(2019), "Bayesian Input Design for Linear Dynamical Model Discrimination", Entropy, 21 (4): 351, Bibcode:2019Entrp..21..351B, doi:10.3390/e21040351, PMC 7514835
Antoni Kępiński (1,876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
difference between them and inanimate objects which obey the increase of entropy principle. The body retains the same basic structure, although its building
Finite-valued logic (1,322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mustafa (2016). "Neural computation from first principles: Using the maximum entropy method to obtain an optimal bits-per-joule neuron". IEEE Transactions on
Hick's law (1,820 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Psychologists began to see similarities between this phenomenon and information theory.[who?] Hick first began experimenting with this theory in 1951. In
J. M. R. Parrondo (317 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
field of information theory, mostly looking at information as a thermodynamic concept, which as a result of ergodicity breaking changed the entropy of the
Negativity (quantum mechanics) (694 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
state is entangled (if the state is PPT entangled). does not reduce to the entropy of entanglement on pure states like most other entanglement measures. is
Algorithmically random sequence (4,904 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
digits). Random sequences are key objects of study in algorithmic information theory. In measure-theoretic probability theory, introduced by Andrey Kolmogorov
Chemical specificity (2,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
enzyme substrate complex. Information theory allows for a more quantitative definition of specificity by calculating the entropy in the binding spectrum
Marcus Hutter (869 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Marcus Hutter (2011). "A Philosophical Treatise of Universal Induction". Entropy. 13 (6). MDPI: 1076–1136. arXiv:1105.5721. doi:10.3390/e13061076. Marcus
Functional information (567 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
law of nature, expanding on evolution". Reuters. Retrieved 2025-04-15. Entropy and life Second law of thermodynamics Specified complexity, a creationist
Lucien Birgé (336 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
statistics, model selection, adaptation, approximation, "dimension and metric entropy", and "asymptotic optimality of estimators in infinite-dimensional spaces"
Relativistic dynamics (1,545 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Angel Ricardo (2011-12-20). "Information Theory Consequences of the Scale-Invariance of Schröedinger's Equation". Entropy. 13 (12). MDPI AG: 2049–2058
Andrea Goldsmith (engineer) (1,102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2009, founded and chaired the Student Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and chaired
Likelihood function (8,546 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
likelihood is interpreted within the context of information theory. Bayes factor Conditional entropy Conditional probability Empirical likelihood Likelihood
Factorial code (558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Horace Barlow and co-workers suggested to minimize the sum of the bit entropies of the code components of binary codes (1989). Jürgen Schmidhuber (1992)
Quantum cryptography (9,126 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
seminal paper titled "Conjugate Coding" was rejected by the IEEE Information Theory Society but was eventually published in 1983 in SIGACT News. In this
Myron Tribus (1,409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
papers including: Levine, Raphael D., and Myron Tribus, eds. The maximum entropy formalism. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1979. Tribus, Myron (1989). Deployment
Distance (2,230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
most basic Bregman divergence. The most important in information theory is the relative entropy (Kullback–Leibler divergence), which allows one to analogously
Outline of physics (3,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
properties of light Basic quantities Acceleration Electric charge Energy Entropy Force Length Mass Matter Momentum Potential energy Space Temperature Time
Error exponent (2,779 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In information theory, the error exponent of a channel code or source code over the block length of the code is the rate at which the error probability
Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics (731 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
including modern interdisciplinary applications to biology, Finance, information theory, and quantum computation. The MECO conferences were deliberately created
Pattern formation (1,824 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Petz recovery map (923 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum information theory, a mix of quantum mechanics and information theory, the Petz recovery map can be thought of a quantum analog of Bayes' theorem
Binomial distribution (7,554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
\left(-nD\left({\frac {k}{n}}\parallel p\right)\right)} where D(a ∥ p) is the relative entropy (or Kullback-Leibler divergence) between an a-coin and a p-coin (i.e. between
Minimum evolution (2,448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
concurrent minimum entropy processes encoded by a forest of n phylogenies rooted on the n analyzed taxa. This particular information theory-based interpretation
Klaus Krippendorff (959 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Birkhäuser De Gruyter Krippendorff's alpha Content analysis Satisficing Social entropy The Semantic Turn Meyen, Michael (2012-05-30). "Klaus Krippendorff". International
Mathematical analysis (4,391 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Analytic combinatorics Continuous probability Differential entropy in information theory Differential games Differential geometry, the application of
Limits of computation (1,211 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
amount of information that can be stored within a spherical volume to the entropy of a black hole with the same surface area. Thermodynamics limit the data
Occam's razor (10,934 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hutter, Marcus (2011). "A philosophical treatise of universal induction". Entropy. 13 (6): 1076–1136. arXiv:1105.5721. Bibcode:2011Entrp..13.1076R. doi:10
Christof Koch (1,841 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of consciousness can be found in all things. Tononi's Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness differs from classical panpsychism in that
Highest averages method (4,070 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
used to define a family of divisor methods that minimizes the generalized entropy index of misrepresentation. This family includes the logarithmic mean,
Uncertainty (4,351 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
consistent among fields such as probability theory, actuarial science, and information theory. Some also create new terms without substantially changing the definitions
Gibbs rotational ensemble (1,833 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to derive any ensemble, as given by E.T. Jaynes in his 1956 paper Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics. Let f ( x ) {\displaystyle f(x)} be a function
Matthias Grossglauser (1,774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Matthias; Thiran, Patrick (2013). "The Entropy of Conditional Markov Trajectories". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 59 (9): 5577–5583. arXiv:1212.2831
Feedback (5,792 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
since the Maxwell's demon, with recent advances on the consequences for entropy reduction and performance increase. In biological systems such as organisms
Olaf Dreyer (342 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Dreyer, Olaf (2003), "Quasinormal Modes, the Area Spectrum, and Black Hole Entropy", Phys. Rev. Lett., 90 (8): 081301, arXiv:gr-qc/0211076v1, Bibcode:2003PhRvL
Heuristic (8,766 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Homeostasis – State of steady internal conditions maintained by living things Entropy – Property of a thermodynamic system George Polya studied and published
Henry Stapp (1,228 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
density matrix of a quantum system can never decrease the von Neumann entropy of the system, but can only increase it. Stapp has responded to Bourget
Codec acceleration (179 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Discrete cosine transform (DCT) Quantization Variable-length code Information theory - Entropy DirectX Video Acceleration High-Definition Video Processor Intel
Information distance (1,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the other program Having in mind the parallelism between Shannon information theory and Kolmogorov complexity theory, one can say that this result is
Timeline of quantum computing and communication (22,862 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the first attempts at creating a quantum information theory, showing that Shannon information theory cannot directly be generalized to the quantum
RSA cryptosystem (7,783 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
random number generator, which has been properly seeded with adequate entropy, must be used to generate the primes p and q. An analysis comparing millions
Nariman Farvardin (1,399 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and conference proceedings. His major research interests include information theory, signal compression and applications of signal compression to speech
Mikael Skoglund (1,863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
source-channel coding, signal processing, information theory, privacy, security, and with a particular focus on how information theory applies to wireless communications
Estimation theory (2,483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
algorithm) Fermi problem Grey box model Information theory Least-squares spectral analysis Matched filter Maximum entropy spectral estimation Nuisance parameter
Statistical inference (5,519 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
likelihood estimation and maximum a posteriori estimation (using maximum-entropy Bayesian priors). However, MDL avoids assuming that the underlying probability
Arecibo message (2,418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"Local Compositional Complexity: how to detect a human-readable message". Entropy. 27 (4): 339. Retrieved 2025-06-02. Zenil, Hector (2025-10-01). "An optimal
Normal number (4,302 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the sequence's optimal compression ratio over all ILFSCs is exactly its entropy rate, a quantitative measure of its deviation from normality, which is
List of scientific laws named after people (100 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Voce's law Physics E. Voce Von Neumann bicommutant theorem Von Neumann entropy von Neumann paradox Von Neumann ergodic theorem Von Neumann universe Von
Werner state (1,329 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Haegeman, B.; Mosonyi, Milan; Vanpeteghem, D. (2004). "Additivity of minimal entropy out- put for a class of covariant channels". unpublished. arXiv:quant-ph/0410195
Scalability (2,132 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Jens Eisert (1,398 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theory, he has helped understanding the role of area laws for entanglement entropies in quantum physics that are at the root of the functioning of tensor network
Nonlinear system (2,645 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Evolutionary algorithm (4,553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
– Based on information theory. Used for maximization of manufacturing yield, mean fitness or average information. See for instance Entropy in thermodynamics
Noisy-storage model (2,870 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
about if the memory device is extremely large, but very imperfect. In information theory such an imperfect memory device is also called a noisy channel. The
Demon (thought experiment) (1,073 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
each molecule, and the eventual erasure of that information would return entropy to the system. In aphorism 341 of The Gay Science, Nietzsche puts forth
Wassim Michael Haddad (4,322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Asymmetry, Entropic Irreversibility, and Finite-Time Thermodynamics: From Parmenides–Einstein Time–Reversal Symmetry to the Heraclitan Entropic Arrow of
Amplitude damping channel (3,074 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
applied to a general input state, and from this mapping, the von Neumann entropy of the output is found as: S ( D η ( ρ ) ) = H 2 ( ( 1 + ( 1 − 2 η p )
Terence Tao (6,678 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problem his 2015 resolution of the Erdős discrepancy problem, which used entropy estimates within analytic number theory his 2019 progress on the Collatz
EPS Statistical and Nonlinear Physics Prize (143 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
testing Fluctuation Theorems for injected power, dissipated heat, and entropy production rates, as well as investigating experimentally the connection
Relational quantum mechanics (6,939 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
depend on the reference frame of the observer, and Wheeler's idea that information theory would make sense of quantum mechanics. The physical content of the
Pattern recognition (4,363 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Parametric: Linear discriminant analysis Quadratic discriminant analysis Maximum entropy classifier (aka logistic regression, multinomial logistic regression):
Secret sharing (3,790 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
For example, they might allow secrets to be protected by shares with entropy of 128 bits each, since each share would be considered enough to stymie
Likelihoodist statistics (1,718 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
quantifying information content and communication. The concept of entropy in information theory has connections to the likelihood function and the AIC criterion
Bayes classifier (1,374 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(1993). "Strong universal consistency of neural network classifiers". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 39 (4): 1146–1151. doi:10.1109/18.243433.
List of unsolved problems in physics (11,406 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
emergent by using quantum information theoretic concepts such as entanglement entropy in the AdS/CFT correspondence. However, how exactly the familiar classical
Effective number of parties (1,077 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
participation ratio (IPR) in physics; and the Rényi entropy of order α = 2 {\displaystyle \alpha =2} in information theory. An alternative formula was proposed by
Brenda McCowan (3,035 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Applicability of information theory to the quantification of responses to anthropogenic noise by Southeast Alaskan humpback whales. Entropy 10:33-46. Marino
Anti-Tech Revolution (561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Zipf's law (4,659 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Zipf's-Law-Like Word Frequency Distribution". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 38 (6): 1842–1845. doi:10.1109/18.165464. Adamic, Lada A. (2000)
Language model (2,413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
sophisticated models, such as Good–Turing discounting or back-off models. Maximum entropy language models encode the relationship between a word and the n-gram history
Twenty questions (2,211 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
game. The game suggests that the information (as measured by Shannon's entropy statistic) required to identify an arbitrary object is at most 20 bits
Order statistic (4,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Cardone, A. Dytso and C. Rush, "Entropic Central Limit Theorem for Order Statistics," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 2193-2205
Wozencraft ensemble (1,656 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
minimum distance to block length. And H q {\displaystyle H_{q}} is the q-ary entropy function defined as follows: H q ( x ) = x log q ⁡ ( q − 1 ) − x log q
Consciousness (20,119 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Neuroscience. 8: 20. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00020. PMC 3909994. PMID 24550805. "Entropy as More than Chaos in the Brain: Expanding Field, Expanding Minds". 2018-06-22
Rainbow table (3,485 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Schneier, B.; Hall, C.; Wagner, D. (1998). "Secure applications of low-entropy keys" (PDF). Information Security. LNCS. Vol. 1396. p. 121. doi:10.1007/BFb0030415
Collective behavior (2,760 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Topological quantum field theory (3,764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
as a Witten-type TQFT. Quantum topology Topological defect Topological entropy in physics Topological order Topological quantum number Topological quantum
Weak supervision (3,038 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
separation include Gaussian process models, information regularization, and entropy minimization (of which TSVM is a special case). Laplacian regularization
Cognitive biology (5,051 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
quantum information theory (regarding probabilistic changes of state) with an invitation "to consider system theory together with information theory as the
Graeme Smith (physicist) (1,315 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
classified conditions under which certain entropic formulas remain additive in quantum information theory. He is an advocate for accurate science communication
Genetic algorithm (8,221 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cross-entropy (CE) method generates candidate solutions via a parameterized probability distribution. The parameters are updated via cross-entropy minimization
Martin Hilbert (1,241 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
004. ISSN 0954-349X. Hilbert, Martin (2020). "Information Theory for Human and Social Processes". Entropy. 23 (1): 9. Bibcode:2020Entrp..23....9H. doi:10
List of Russian mathematicians (1,744 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fields Medal winner Aleksandr Korkin, Vladimir Kotelnikov, pioneer in information theory, an author of fundamental sampling theorem Sofia Kovalevskaya, first
The Limits to Growth (6,770 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
December 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017. Avery, John Scales (2012). Information Theory and Evolution. Singapore: World Scientific. p. 233. ISBN 978-981-4401-22-7
Bryce Bayer (1,274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Laboratory. At the time, he was also studying Shannon's work on information theory and entropy, Shannon-Fano coding to use shorter codes for more frequent
Antifragility (1,793 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
ecosystem resilience in its relation to ecosystem integrity from an information theory approach. This work reformulates and builds upon the concept of resilience
Möbius inversion formula (2,762 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
different posets. Examples include Shapley values in game theory, maximum entropy interactions in statistical mechanics, epistasis in genetics, and the interaction
International Prognostic Index (1,151 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
non-Hodkin lymphoma was developed. An information theory guided, computer search and evaluation procedure entropy minimax was employed to discover the
Arbitrarily varying channel (2,993 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
s)} . H ( X r ) {\displaystyle \textstyle H(X_{r})} is the entropy of X r {\displaystyle \textstyle X_{r}} . H ( X r | Y r ) {\displaystyle
Random geometric graph (2,603 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
networks under a general connection model". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 59 (3): 1761–1772. doi:10.1109/tit.2012.2228894. S2CID 3027610. Penrose
Position weight matrix (1,880 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle j} . This corresponds to the Kullback–Leibler divergence or relative entropy. However, it has been shown that when using PSSM to search genomic sequences
Light (6,543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and quantum logic gates. The latter are of much interest in quantum information theory, a subject which partly emerged from quantum optics, partly from theoretical
Quantum mechanics (12,153 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
performed on a larger system. POVMs are extensively used in quantum information theory. As described above, entanglement is a key feature of models of measurement
List of people considered father or mother of a scientific field (5,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Antipolis. p. 16. Bruen, Aiden A.; Forcinito, Mario (2005). Cryptography, Information Theory, and Error-Correction: A Handbook for the 21st Century. Hoboken, N
CBC-MAC (2,867 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(a.k.a. randomness extractor, a method to generate bitstrings with full entropy) in NIST SP 800-90B. FIPS PUB 113 Computer Data Authentication is a (now
Parrondo's paradox (2,844 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
including Markov chains, flashing ratchets, simulated annealing, and information theory. One way to explain the apparent paradox is as follows: While Game
Laplace's approximation (999 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
1090/conm/115/07. ISBN 0-8218-5122-5. MacKay, David J. C. (2003). "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms, chapter 27: Laplace's method"
Georgia Tourassi (1,059 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
including genetic algorithms. Her knowledge-based approach uses image entropy to sort through hundreds of medical images, identifies the ones that are
Scale-free network (6,015 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
results by unraveling the size distribution of social groups with information theory on complex networks when a competitive cluster growth process is applied
Minimax estimator (1,926 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
minimax estimator is intimately related to the geometry, such as the metric entropy number, of Θ {\displaystyle \Theta } . Sometimes, a minimax estimator may
Central limit theorem (9,202 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
convergence to the normal distribution is monotonic, in the sense that the entropy of Z n {\textstyle Z_{n}} increases monotonically to that of the normal
Topological string theory (2,687 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
holes in five dimensions. Quantum topology Topological defect Topological entropy in physics Topological order Topological quantum field theory Topological
Stochastic process (18,657 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
neuroscience, physics, image processing, signal processing, control theory, information theory, computer science, and telecommunications. Furthermore, seemingly
Inquiry (4,962 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
West Churchman Curiosity Empirical limits in science Information entropy Information theory Inquisitive learning Instrumental and intrinsic value Logic of
Jeffreys prior (2,591 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tavakoli, Javad; Zhao, Yiqiang (2020). "Weyl Prior and Bayesian Statistics". Entropy. 22 (4). 467. doi:10.3390/e22040467. PMC 7516948. Kass RE, Wasserman L
Max Bense (2,539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematician George David Birkhoff. Thus some termini like "redundancy" and "entropy" have to be equated with "Ordnungsmaß" and "Materialverbrauch" (consumption
Index of electronics articles (2,802 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Emitter coupled logic – End distortion – Endurability – Enhanced service – Entropy encoding – Equilibrium length – Equivalent impedance transforms – Equivalent
Robert J. Marks II (3,574 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Posch, and Joe M. Moody. "Comparison of binomial, ZAM and minimum cross-entropy time-frequency distributions of intracardiac heart sounds." In Signals
Numbers season 2 (708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Connor Trinneer and Cynthia Preston. Mathematics used: Information theory - information entropy, graph theory - Seven Bridges of Königsberg and soap bubble
Biclustering (3,159 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
on bipartite spectral graph partitioning. The other was based on information theory. Dhillon assumed the loss of mutual information during biclustering
Curse of dimensionality (4,186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"High-Dimensional Brain in a High-Dimensional World: Blessing of Dimensionality". Entropy. 22 (1): 82. arXiv:2001.04959. Bibcode:2020Entrp..22...82G. doi:10.3390/e22010082
Image moment (2,184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
2006. Zhang, Y. (2015). "Pathological Brain Detection based on wavelet entropy and Hu moment invariants". Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering. 26: 1283–1290
Quantum mind (7,895 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Substrate for Consciousness and Action Selection to Integrated Information Theory". Entropy. 24 (1): 91. Bibcode:2022Entrp..24...91R. doi:10.3390/e24010091
Effects of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation in the United States (1,291 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
patterns until Christensen et al. (1981) used entropy minimax pattern discovery based on information theory to advance the science of long range weather
Binomial coefficient (10,787 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle H(p)=-p\log _{2}(p)-(1-p)\log _{2}(1-p)} is the binary entropy function. It can be further tightened to n 8 k ( n − k ) 2 n H ( k / n
Inductive probability (8,027 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
developed the minimum description length circa 1978. These methods allow information theory to be related to probability, in a way that can be compared to the
Copenhagen interpretation (9,956 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(1990). "Probability in Quantum Theory". In Zurek, W. H. (ed.). Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information. Addison-Wesley. pp. 381–404. ISBN 9780201515060
Binding problem (7,000 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Substrate for Consciousness and Action Selection to Integrated Information Theory". Entropy. 24 (1): 91. Bibcode:2022Entrp..24...91R. doi:10.3390/e24010091
Euler's constant (9,611 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
one or two degrees of freedom. An upper bound on Shannon entropy in quantum information theory. In dimensional regularization of Feynman diagrams in quantum
Gaussian process (5,929 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and Gaussian Processes for Impedance Cardiography of Aortic Dissection". Entropy. 22 (1): 58. Bibcode:2019Entrp..22...58R. doi:10.3390/e22010058. ISSN 1099-4300
List of works on intelligent design (6,073 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0801071966 John C. Sanford. Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome, Feed My Sheep Foundation, Inc, 2008, ISBN 0-9816316-0-6
Network science (9,905 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
List of publications in mathematics (10,426 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
later expanded into a book, which developed the concepts of information entropy and redundancy, and introduced the term bit (which Shannon credited to
Conversation theory (4,311 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is distinguished from the mere exchange of information as seen in information theory, by the fact that utterances are interpreted within the context of
Kenneth Boulding's evolutionary perspective (1,495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
economics for reasons not dissimilar to Boulding. In his classic work, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Georgescu-Roegen issued a call for the end
Intelligent design (19,821 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Stephen C. Meyer published a review of this book, discussing how information theory could suggest that messages transmitted by DNA in the cell show "specified
Supersymmetric theory of stochastic dynamics (5,758 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
known as "pressure", a member of the family of dynamical entropies such as topological entropy. Spectra b and c in the figure satisfy this condition. One
Sufficient statistic (6,717 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Tishby, N. Z.; Levine, R. D. (1984-11-01). "Alternative approach to maximum-entropy inference". Physical Review A. 30 (5): 2638–2644. Bibcode:1984PhRvA..30
Adaptation (8,239 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cybernetics Autopoiesis Conversation theory Entropy Feedback Goal-oriented Homeostasis Information theory Operationalization Second-order cybernetics
Gilbert–Varshamov bound for linear codes (1,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle \delta .} Here H q {\displaystyle H_{q}} is the q-ary entropy function defined as follows: H q ( x ) = x log q ⁡ ( q − 1 ) − x log q
Quantum Bayesianism (8,310 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
out of efforts to separate these parts using the tools of quantum information theory and personalist Bayesian probability theory. There are many interpretations
Information overload (6,550 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
can be saved and stored on computers, even if information experiences entropy. But at the same time, the term information, and its many definitions have
Simulation hypothesis (6,569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(1990) Information, Physics, Quantum. In: Zurek, W.H., Ed., Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information, Addison-Wesley, Boston, 354–368. Lloyd