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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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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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Fullwood, James On a 2-Relative Entropy |
title | On a 2-Relative Entropy |
title_full | On a 2-Relative Entropy |
title_fullStr | On a 2-Relative Entropy |
title_full_unstemmed | On a 2-Relative Entropy |
title_short | On a 2-Relative Entropy |
title_sort | on a 2-relative entropy |
topic | Article |
url | 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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