An Introduction to Information Theory and Applications

An Introduction to Information Theory and Applications

This note explains the following topics: uncertainty and information, Efficient coding of information, Stationary processes and markov chains, Coding for noisy transmission, Complements to efficient coding of Information, Error correcting codes and cryptography.

Author(s): F Bavaud, J C Chappelier and J Kohlas

293 Pages

Lecture Notes on statistics and information Theory

This lecture note navigates through information theory, statistics and measure theory. It covers fundamental concepts such as definitions, chain rules, data processing inequalities, and divergences and extends to optimal procedures, LeCam’s and Fano’s inequalities, and operational results like entropy and source coding. It also focus on exponential families and statistical modeling, fitting procedures, and lower bounds on testing parameters, sub-Gaussian and sub-exponential random variables, martingale methods, uniformity covering topics such as Kullback-Leibler divergence, PAC-Bayes bounds, interactive data analysis, and error bounds.

Author(s): John Duchi

464 Pages

Information Theory and its applications in theory of computation

This note covers the following topics: Entropy, Kraft's inequality, Source coding theorem, conditional entropy, mutual information, KL-divergence and connections, KL-divergence and Chernoff bounds, Data processing and Fano's inequalities, Asymptotic Equipartition Property, Universal source coding: Lempel-Ziv algorithm and proof of its optimality, Source coding via typical sets and universality, joint typicality and joint AEP, discrete channels and channel capacity, Proof of Noisy channel coding theorem, Constructing capacity-achieving codes via concatenation, Polarization, Arikan's recursive construction of a polarizing invertible transformation, Polar codes construction, Bregman's theorem, Shearer's Lemma and applications, Source coding and Graph entropy, Monotone formula lower bounds via graph entropy, Optimal set Disjointness lower bound and applications, Compression of arbitrary communication protocols, Parallel repetition of 2-prover 1-round games.

Author(s): Venkatesan Guruswami and Mahdi Cheraghchi

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Information Theory in Computer Science

This note explains the following topics: Shearer's Lemma, Entropy, Relative Entropy, Hypothesis testing, total variation distance and Pinsker's lemma, Stability in Shearer's Lemma, Communication Complexity, Set Disjointness, Direct Sum in Communication Complexity and Internal Information Complexity, Data Structure Lower Bounds via Communication Complexity, Algorithmic Lovasz Local Lemma, Parallel Repetition Theorem, Graph Entropy and Sorting.

Author(s): Madhu Sudan

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Information Theory Lecture Notes

This is a graduate-level introduction to mathematics of information theory. This note will cover both classical and modern topics, including information entropy, lossless data compression, binary hypothesis testing, channel coding, and lossy data compression.

Author(s): Prof. Yury Polyanski

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Information Theory by Yao Xie

This note will explore the basic concepts of information theory. It is highly recommended for students planning to delve into the fields of communications, data compression, and statistical signal processing. Topics covered includes: Entropy and mutual information, Chain rules and inequalities, Data processing, Fano's inequality, Asymptotic equipartition property, Entropy rate, Source coding and Kraft inequality, Optimal code length and roof code, Huffman codes, Shannon-Fano-Elias and arithmetic codes, Maximum entropy, Channel capacity, Channel coding theorem, Differential entropy, Gaussian channel, Parallel Gaussian channel and water-filling, Quantization and rate-distortion.

Author(s): Yao Xie

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