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cs.IT2014★ 19 cited
A Bayesian Characterization of Relative Entropy
John C. Baez, Tobias Fritz
We give a new characterization of relative entropy, also known as the Kullback-Leibler divergence. We use a number of interesting categories related to probability theory. In parti…
cs.IT2011★ 95 cited
Entropic Inequalities and Marginal Problems
Tobias Fritz, Rafael Chaves
A marginal problem asks whether a given family of marginal distributions for some set of random variables arises from some joint distribution of these variables. Here we point out…
cs.IT2011★ 123 cited
A Characterization of Entropy in Terms of Information Loss
John C. Baez, Tobias Fritz, Tom Leinster
There are numerous characterizations of Shannon entropy and Tsallis entropy as measures of information obeying certain properties. Using work by Faddeev and Furuichi, we derive a v…