Alternate form of submodularity to Entropy of conditionally…

CorollaryAlternate form of submodularity#

With three random variables \(X,Y,Z\), one has

\[ \mathbb{H}[X,Y,Z] + \mathbb{H}[Z] \leq \mathbb{H}[X,Z] + \mathbb{H}[Y,Z]. \]
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DefinitionIndependent random variables#

Two random variables \(X: \Omega \to S\) and \(Y: \Omega \to T\) are independent if the law of \((X,Y)\) is the product of the law of \(X\) and the law of \(Y\). Similarly for more than two variables.

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LemmaVanishing of mutual information#

If \(X,Y\) are random variables, then \(\mathbb{I}[X:Y] = 0\) if and only if \(X,Y\) are independent.

Proof

An application of the equality case of Jensen's inequality and Concavity.

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Formalized as ProbabilityTheory.mutualInfo_eq_zero.

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CorollaryAdditivity of entropy#

If \(X,Y\) are random variables, then \(\mathbb{H}[X,Y] = \mathbb{H}[X] + \mathbb{H}[Y]\) if and only if \(X,Y\) are independent.

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DefinitionConditional mutual information#

If \(X,Y,Z\) are random variables, with \(Z\) \(U\)-valued, then

\[ \mathbb{I}[X:Y|Z] := \sum_{z \in U} P[Z=z] \mathbb{I}[(X|Z=z): (Y|Z=z)]. \]
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LemmaAlternate formula for conditional mutual information#

We have

\[ \mathbb{I}[X:Y|Z] := \mathbb{H}[X|Z] + \mathbb{H}[Y|Z] - \mathbb{H}[X,Y|Z] \]

and

\[ \mathbb{I}[X:Y|Z] := \mathbb{H}[X|Z] - \mathbb{H}[X|Y,Z]. \]
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LemmaNonnegativity of conditional mutual information#

If \(X,Y,Z\) are random variables, then \(\mathbb{I}[X:Y|Z] \ge 0\).

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DefinitionConditionally independent random variables#

Two random variables \(X: \Omega \to S\) and \(Y: \Omega \to T\) are conditionally independent relative to another random variable \(Z: \Omega \to U\) if \(P[X = s \wedge Y = t| Z=u] = P[X=s|Z=u] P[Y=t|Z=u]\) for all \(s \in S, t \in T, u \in U\). (We won't need conditional independence for more variables than this.)

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LemmaVanishing conditional mutual information#

If \(X,Y,Z\) are random variables, then \(\mathbb{I}[X:Y|Z] = 0\) iff \(X,Y\) are conditionally independent over \(Z\).

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CorollaryEntropy of conditionally independent variables#

If \(X, Y\) are conditionally independent over \(Z\), then

\[ \mathbb{H}[X,Y,Z] =\mathbb{H}[X,Z] + \mathbb{H}[Y,Z] - \mathbb{H}[Z]. \]
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