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physics.bio-ph2025
Ambiguous signals and efficient codes
Marianne Bauer, William Bialek
In many biological networks the responses of individual elements are ambiguous. We consider a scenario in which many sensors respond to a shared signal, each with limited informati…
physics.bio-ph2024
A brief tutorial on information theory
Tarek Tohme, William Bialek
At the 2023 Les Houches Summer School on Theoretical Biological Physics, several students asked for some background on information theory, and so we added a tutorial to the schedul…