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Estimating Renyi Entropy of Discrete Distributions
Jayadev Acharya, Alon Orlitsky, Ananda Theertha Suresh +1
It was recently shown that estimating the Shannon entropy of a discrete -symbol distribution requires samples, a number that grows near-line…
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Universal Compression of Envelope Classes: Tight Characterization via Poisson Sampling
Jayadev Acharya, Ashkan Jafarpour, Alon Orlitsky +1
The Poisson-sampling technique eliminates dependencies among symbol appearances in a random sequence. It has been used to simplify the analysis and strengthen the performance guara…