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On a 2-Relative Entropy

We construct a 2-categorical extension of the relative entropy functor of Baez and Fritz, and show that our construction is functorial with respect to vertical morphisms. Moreover, we show such a ‘2-relative entropy’ satisfies natural 2-categorial analogues of convex linearity, vanishing under optim...

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Autor principal: Fullwood, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774524/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35052100
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24010074
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description We construct a 2-categorical extension of the relative entropy functor of Baez and Fritz, and show that our construction is functorial with respect to vertical morphisms. Moreover, we show such a ‘2-relative entropy’ satisfies natural 2-categorial analogues of convex linearity, vanishing under optimal hypotheses, and lower semicontinuity. While relative entropy is a relative measure of information between probability distributions, we view our construction as a relative measure of information between channels.
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spelling pubmed-87745242022-01-21 On a 2-Relative Entropy Fullwood, James Entropy (Basel) Article We construct a 2-categorical extension of the relative entropy functor of Baez and Fritz, and show that our construction is functorial with respect to vertical morphisms. Moreover, we show such a ‘2-relative entropy’ satisfies natural 2-categorial analogues of convex linearity, vanishing under optimal hypotheses, and lower semicontinuity. While relative entropy is a relative measure of information between probability distributions, we view our construction as a relative measure of information between channels. MDPI 2021-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8774524/ /pubmed/35052100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e24010074 Text en © 2021 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774524/
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