A brief tutorial on information theory
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
- William Bialek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7823-3862)
- Tarek Tohme
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Princeton University (US)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (FR)
- Sorbonne Université (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SciPost Physics Lecture Notes
- Published
- 2024-09-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphyslectnotes.87
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.23
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Simons Foundation
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche