A brief tutorial on information theory
Tarek Tohme, William Bialek
SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 87 (2024) · published 23 September 2024
Part of the 2023-07: Theoretical Biological Physics 2023 Collection in the Les Houches Summer School Lecture Notes Series.
- doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.87
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Abstract
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 scheduled lectures. This is largely a transcript of that tutorial, lightly edited. It covers basic definitions and context rather than detailed calculations. We hope to have maintained the informality of the presentation, including exchanges with the students, while still being useful.
Authors / Affiliations: mappings to Contributors and Organizations
See all Organizations.- 1 2 3 4 Tarek Tohme,
- 5 William Bialek
- 1 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS]
- 2 Sorbonne Université / Sorbonne University
- 3 Université de Paris / University of Paris
- 4 Université de recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres / PSL Research University [PSL]
- 5 Princeton University
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