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Shannon's source coding theorem

In information theory, Shannon's source coding theorem (or noiseless coding theorem) establishes the limits to possible data compression, and the operational meaning of the Shannon entropy. Named after Claude Shannon, the source coding theorem shows that (in the limit, as the length of a stream of independent and identically-distributed random variable (i.i.d.) data tends to infinity) it is impossible to compress the data such that the code rate (average number of bits per symbol) is less than the Shannon entropy of the source, without it being virtually certain that information will be lost. However it is possible to get the code rate arbitrarily close to the Shannon entropy, with negligible probability of loss. The source coding theorem for symbol codes places an upper and a lower bound on the minimal possible expected length of codewords as a function of the entropy of the input word (which is viewed as a random variable) and of the size of the target alphabet. (Wikipedia).

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(IC 3.9) Source coding theorem (optimal lossless compression)

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Shannon Nyquist Sampling Theorem

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Shannon 100 - 26/10/2016 - Olivier RIOUL

Shannon’s Formula Wlog(1+SNR): A Historical Perspective Olivier Rioul (Télécom-ParisTech) As is well known, the milestone event that founded the field of information theory is the publication of Shannon’s 1948 paper entitled "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". This article brings t

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(IC 3.10) Relative entropy as the mismatch inefficiency

By considering the inefficiency due to using the wrong probability distribution to design a code using Shannon coding, we arrive at the relative entropy. A playlist of these videos is available at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE125425EC837021F

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(IC 3.5) Bounds on optimal expected length

Using Shannon coding, one can get within 1 of the entropy. This gives an upper bound on the expected codeword length of an optimal code. A playlist of these videos is available at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE125425EC837021F

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(IC 5.10) Generalizing arithmetic coding to non-i.i.d. models

Arithmetic coding can accommodate essentially any probabilistic model of the source, in a very natural way. A playlist of these videos is available at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE125425EC837021F

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26: Divergence Theorem - Valuable Vector Calculus

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(IC 3.7) Block codes for compression

Introduction to the idea of encoding a sequence of source symbols using blocks, rather than a single symbol at a time. A playlist of these videos is available at: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE125425EC837021F

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Shannons Theory (Contd...2)

Cryptography and Network Security by Prof. D. Mukhopadhyay, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

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Huffman Codes: An Information Theory Perspective

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Order, Entropy, Information, and Compression (Lecture 2) by Dov Levine

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Sergio Verdu - Information Theory Today

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Shannon 100 - 26/10/2016 - Elisabeth GASSIAT

Entropie, compression et statistique Elisabeth Gassiat (Université de Paris-Sud) Claude Shannon est l'inventeur de la théorie de l'information. Il a introduit la notion d'entropie comme mesure de l'information contenue dans un message vu comme provenant d'une source stochastique et démon

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La théorie l’information sans peine - Bourbaphy - 17/11/18

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Shannon 100 - 27/10/2016 - Gérard BATTAIL

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IMS Public Lecture: Trends in Wireless Communications

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Calculus 5.3 The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

My notes are available at http://asherbroberts.com/ (so you can write along with me). Calculus: Early Transcendentals 8th Edition by James Stewart

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Mini-course on information by Rajaram Nityananda (Part 1)

Information processing in biological systems URL: https://www.icts.res.in/discussion_meeting/ipbs2016/ DATES: Monday 04 Jan, 2016 - Thursday 07 Jan, 2016 VENUE: ICTS campus, Bangalore From the level of networks of genes and proteins to the embryonic and neural levels, information at var

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