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A Tight Uniform Continuity Bound for Equivocation

arXiv:1909.00787 · doi:10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174350

Abstract

We prove a tight uniform continuity bound for the conditional Shannon entropy of discrete finitely supported random variables in terms of total variation distance.

4 pages, streamlined the proof in v2, minor changes + added a clarifying sentence in v3

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