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A brief tutorial on information theory

Year: 2024

Type: article

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.

Source: SciPost Physics Lecture Notes

DOI: 10.21468/scipostphyslectnotes.87

Authors: Tarek Tohme, William Bialek

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Cité, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Sorbonne Université, Princeton University

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funders: National Science Foundation, Simons Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Awards: PFC: Center for the Physics of Biological Function, Precision of collective, distributed, dynamic gene regulation