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Variational Characterizations of Sibson's α-Mutual Information

Esposito, Amedeo Roberto
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Gastpar, Michael  
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Issa, Ibrahim
2024
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

Sibson's α-mutual information has received renewed attention recently in several contexts: concentration of measure under dependence, statistical learning, hypothesis testing, and estimation theory. In this work, we introduce several variational representations of Sibson's α-mutual information: 1) as a supremum over joint distributions of (a combination of) KL divergences; and 2) as a supremum over functions of opportune expected values. Leveraging them, we produce a variety of novel and known results, including a generalization of transportation-cost inequalities and Fano's inequality.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ISIT57864.2024.10619378
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85202875159

Author(s)
Esposito, Amedeo Roberto

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)

Gastpar, Michael  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Issa, Ibrahim

American University of Beirut

Date Issued

2024

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Published in
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
ISBN of the book

9798350382846

Start page

2110

End page

2115

Subjects

Donsker-Varadhan

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Duality

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Sibson

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Variational Representation

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

Athens, Greece

2024-07-07 - 2024-07-12

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Swiss National Science Foundation

200364

Available on Infoscience
January 26, 2025
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