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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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
This book explains basics of thermodynamics, including thermodynamic potentials, microcanonical and canonical distributions, and evolution in the phase space, The inevitability of irreversibility, basics of information theory, applications of information theory, new second law of thermodynamics and quantum information.
Author(s): Gregory Falkovich
165 Pages
Information Theory Lecture Notes
This PDF covers the following topics related to Information Theory : Introduction, Entropy, Relative Entropy, and Mutual Information, Asymptotic Equipartition Properties, Communication and Channel Capacity, Method of Types, Conditional and Joint Typicality, Lossy Compression & Rate Distortion Theory, Joint Source Channel Coding.
Author(s): Prof. Tsachy Weissman
75 Pages
Information Theory and Coding cam
The PDF covers the following topics related to Information Theory : Foundations: probability, uncertainty, information, Entropies defined, and why they are measures of information, Source coding theorem; prefix, variable-, and fixed-length codes, Channel types, properties, noise, and channel capacity, Continuous information, density, noisy channel coding theorem, Fourier series, convergence, orthogonal representation, Useful Fourier theorems, transform pairs, Sampling, aliasing, Discrete Fourier transform, Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms, The quantised degrees-of-freedom in a continuous signal, Gabor-Heisenberg-Weyl uncertainty relation, Kolmogorov complexity.
Author(s): J G Daugman
75 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 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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