Renyi entropy, guesswork moments, and large deviations
Renyi entropy, guesswork moments, and large deviations
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DOI:
10.1109/tit.2004.836665
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发表时间:
2004-11-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Sullivan, WG
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作者:
Pfister, CE;Sullivan, WG
For a large class of stationary probability measures on A(N), where A is a finite alphabet, we compute the specific Renyi entropy of order alpha and the specific guesswork moments of order beta > -1. We show that the specific guesswork moment of order beta equals the specific Renyi entropy of order alpha = 1/(1 + beta) multiplied by beta. The method is based on energy-entropy estimates suggested by statistical physics. The technique also yields a simple proof of the large deviation principle for the empirical measure on the space of an irreducible sofic shift with reference probability measure nu, which is stationary and satisfies a rate condition on the probability of allowed words.