-Divergence Inequalities

I Sason, S Verdú - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper develops systematic approaches to obtain f-divergence inequalities, dealing with
pairs of probability measures defined on arbitrary alphabets. Functional domination is one …

Rényi resolvability and its applications to the wiretap channel

L Yu, VYF Tan - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The conventional channel resolvability problem refers to the determination of the minimum
rate required for an input process so that the output distribution approximates a target …

Strong converse theorems using Rényi entropies

F Leditzky, MM Wilde, N Datta - Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We use a Rényi entropy method to prove strong converse theorems for certain information-
theoretic tasks which involve local operations and quantum (or classical) communication …

The Rényi capacity and center

B Nakiboğlu - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rényi's information measures-the Rényi information, mean, capacity, radius, and center-are
analyzed relying on the elementary properties of the Rényi divergence and the power …

On Gaussian channels with feedback under expected power constraints and with non-vanishing error probabilities

LV Truong, SL Fong, VYF Tan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider single-and multi-user Gaussian channels with feedback under
expected power constraints and with non-vanishing error probabilities. In the first of two …

On the Rényi divergence, joint range of relative entropies, and a channel coding theorem

I Sason - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper starts by considering the minimization of the Rényi divergence subject to a
constraint on the total variation distance. Based on the solution of this optimization problem …

The sphere packing bound via Augustin's method

B Nakiboğlu - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A sphere packing bound (SPB) with a prefactor that is polynomial in the block length is
established for codes on a length product channel, assuming that the maximum order 1/2 …

Conditional Rényi divergences and horse betting

C Bleuler, A Lapidoth, C Pfister - Entropy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Motivated by a horse betting problem, a new conditional Rényi divergence is introduced. It is
compared with the conditional Rényi divergences that appear in the definitions of the …

Relative entropies and their use in quantum information theory

F Leditzky - arxiv preprint arxiv:1611.08802, 2016 - arxiv.org
This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and
how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information …

[PDF][PDF] Bounds among f-divergences

I Sason, S Verdú - submitted to the IEEE Trans. on Information …, 2015 - researchgate.net
This paper studies bounds among various f-divergences, dealing with arbitrary alphabets
and deriving bounds on the ratios of various distance measures. Special attention is placed …