Variational characterizations of Sibson's α-mutual information
Esposito AR, Gastpar M, Issa I. 2024. Variational characterizations of Sibson’s α-mutual information. Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory . ISIT: International Symposium on Information Theory, 2110–2115.
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Esposito, Amedeo RobertoISTA;
Gastpar, Michael;
Issa, Ibrahim
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Sibson's α -mutual information has received renewed attention recently in several contexts: concentration of measure under dependence, statistical learning, hypothesis testing, and estimation theory. In this work, we introduce several variational representations of Sibson's α -mutual information: 1) as a supremum over joint distributions of (a combination of) KL divergences; and 2) as a supremum over functions of opportune expected values. Leveraging them, we produce a variety of novel and known results, including a generalization of transportation-cost inequalities and Fano's inequality.
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2024-08-19
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Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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The work in this paper was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation under Grant 200364.
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2110-2115
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ISIT: International Symposium on Information Theory
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Athens, Greece
Conference Date
2024-07-07 – 2024-07-12
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IST-REx-ID
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Esposito AR, Gastpar M, Issa I. Variational characterizations of Sibson’s α-mutual information. In: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; 2024:2110-2115. doi:10.1109/ISIT57864.2024.10619378
Esposito, A. R., Gastpar, M., & Issa, I. (2024). Variational characterizations of Sibson’s α-mutual information. In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 2110–2115). Athens, Greece: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT57864.2024.10619378
Esposito, Amedeo Roberto, Michael Gastpar, and Ibrahim Issa. “Variational Characterizations of Sibson’s α-Mutual Information.” In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory , 2110–15. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT57864.2024.10619378.
A. R. Esposito, M. Gastpar, and I. Issa, “Variational characterizations of Sibson’s α-mutual information,” in Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory , Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 2110–2115.
Esposito AR, Gastpar M, Issa I. 2024. Variational characterizations of Sibson’s α-mutual information. Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory . ISIT: International Symposium on Information Theory, 2110–2115.
Esposito, Amedeo Roberto, et al. “Variational Characterizations of Sibson’s α-Mutual Information.” Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2024, pp. 2110–15, doi:10.1109/ISIT57864.2024.10619378.
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