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Some basic concepts of Information Theory and Entropy

Some basic concepts of Information Theory and Entropy. Information theory, IT Entropy Mutual Information Use in NLP. Entropy. Related to the coding theory- more efficient code: fewer bits for more frequent messages at the cost of more bits for the less frequent.

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Some basic concepts of Information Theory and Entropy

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  1. Some basic concepts of Information Theory and Entropy • Information theory, IT • Entropy • Mutual Information • Use in NLP

  2. Entropy • Related to the coding theory- more efficient code: fewer bits for more frequent messages at the cost of more bits for the less frequent

  3. EXAMPLE: You have to send messages about the two occupants in a house every five minutes • Equal probability: 0 no occupants 1 first occupant 2 second occupant 3 Both occupants • Different probability Situation Probability Code no occupants .5 0 first occupant .125 110 second occupant .125 111 Both occupants .25 10

  4. Let X a random variable taking values x1, x2, ..., xn from a domain de according to a probability distribution • We can define the expected value of X, E(x) as the summatory of the possible values weighted with their probability • E(X) = p(x1)X(x1) + p(x2)X(x2) + ... p(xn)X(xn)

  5. Entropy • A message can thought of as a random variable W that can take one of several values V(W) and a probability distribution P. • Is there a lower bound on the number of bits neede tod encode a message? Yes, the entropy • It is possible to get close to the minimum (lower bound) • It is also a measure of our uncertainty about wht the message says (lot of bits- uncertain, few - certain)

  6. Given an event we want to associate its information content (I) • From Shannon in the 1940s • Two constraints: • Significance: • The less probable is an event the more information it contains • P(x1) > P(x2) => I(x2) > I(x1) • Additivity: • If two events are independent • I(x1x2) = I(x1) + I(x2)

  7. I(m) = 1/p(m) does not satisfy the second requirement • I(x) = - log p(x) satisfies both • So we define I(X) = - log p(X)

  8. Let X a random variable, described by p(X), owning an information content I • Entropy: is the expected value of I: E(I) • Entropy measures information content of a random variable. We can consider it as the average length of the message needed to transmite a value of this variable using an optimal coding. • Entropy measures the degree of desorder (uncertainty) of the random variable.

  9. Uniform distribution of a variable X. • Each possible value xi X with |X| = M has the same probability pi = 1/M • If the value xi is codified in binary we need log2 M bits of information • Non uniform distribution. • by analogy • Each value xi has a different probability pi • Let assume pi to be independent • If Mpi = 1/ pi we will need log2 Mpi = log2 (1/ pi ) = - log2 pi bits of information

  10. Let X ={a, b, c, d} with pa = 1/2; pb = 1/4; pc = 1/8; pd = 1/8 entropy(X) = E(I)= -1/2 log2 (1/2) -1/4 log2 (1/4) -1/8 log2 (1/8) -1/8 log2 (1/8) = 7/4 = 1.75 bits X = a? no si a X = b? no si b X = c? si no c a Average number of questions: 1.75

  11. Let X with a binomial distribution X = 0 with probability p X = 1 with probability(1-p) H(X) = -p log2 (p) -(1-p) log2 (1-p) p = 0 => 1 - p = 1 H(X) = 0 p = 1 => 1 - p = 0 H(X) = 0 p = 1/2 => 1 - p = 1/2 H(X) = 1 H(Xp) 1 0 0 1/2 1 p

  12. joint entropy of two random variables, X, Y is average information content for specifying both variables

  13. The conditional entropy of a random variable Y given another random variable X, describes what amount of information is needed in average to communicate when the reader already knows X

  14. Chaining rule for probabilities P(A,B) = P(A|B)P(B) = P(B|A)P(A) P(A,B,C,D…) = P(A)P(B|A)P(C|A,B)P(D|A,B,C..)

  15. Chaining rule for entropies

  16. Mutual Information I(X,Y) is the mutual information between X and Y. • I(X,Y) measures the reduction of incertaincy of X when Y is known • It measures too the amouny of information X owns about Y (or Y about X)

  17. I = 0 only when X and Y are independent: • H(X|Y)=H(X) • H(X)=H(X)-H(X|X)=I(X,X) • Entropy is the autoinformation (mutual information between X and X)

  18. Pointwise Mutual Information • The PMI of a pair of outcomes x and y belonging to discrete random variables quantifies the discrepancy between the probability of their coincidence given their joint distribution versus the probability of their coincidence given only their individual distributions and assuming independence • The mutual information of X and Y is the expected value of the Specific Mutual Information of all possible outcomes.

  19. H: entropy of a language L • We ignore p(X) • Let q(X) a LM • How good is q(X) as an estimation of p(X) ?

  20. Cross Entropy Measures the “surprise” of a model q when it describes events following a distribution p

  21. Relative Entropy Relativa or Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence Measures the difference between two probabilistic distributions

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