联合熵

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该图表示在变量X、Y相关联的各种信息量之间，进行加减关系的维恩图。两个圆重合的区域是联合熵H(X,Y)。左侧的圆（红色和紫色）是单个熵H（X），红色是条件熵H（X ǀ Y）。右侧的圆（蓝色和紫色）为H（Y），蓝色为H（Y ǀ X）。中间紫色的是相互信息i（X; Y）。

In information theory, joint entropy is a measure of the uncertainty associated with a set of variables.

在 信息论Information theory中， 联合熵Joint entropy是用于对与一组变量相关的不确定性进行度量。

Definition 定义

The joint Shannon entropy (in bits) of two discrete random variables [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math] with images [math]\displaystyle{ \mathcal X }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ \mathcal Y }[/math] is defined as

联合熵Shannon entropy 的定义是：以比特为单位，对于具有[math]\displaystyle{ \mathcal X }[/math]和[math]\displaystyle{ \mathcal Y }[/math]的两个离散随机变量函数[math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math]和[math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math]有

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[math]\displaystyle{ \Eta(X,Y) = -\sum_{x\in\mathcal X} \sum_{y\in\mathcal Y} P(x,y) \log_2[P(x,y)] }[/math]

(Eq.1)

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where [math]\displaystyle{ x }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ y }[/math] are particular values of [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math], respectively, [math]\displaystyle{ P(x,y) }[/math] is the joint probability of these values occurring together, and [math]\displaystyle{ P(x,y) \log_2[P(x,y)] }[/math] is defined to be 0 if [math]\displaystyle{ P(x,y)=0 }[/math].

其中[math]\displaystyle{ x }[/math]和[math]\displaystyle{ y }[/math]分别是[math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math]和[math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math]的特定值，[math]\displaystyle{ P(x,y) }[/math]是这些值产生交集时的联合概率，如果[math]\displaystyle{ P(x,y)=0 }[/math]那么[math]\displaystyle{ P(x,y) \log_2[P(x,y)] }[/math]定义为0。

For more than two random variables [math]\displaystyle{ X_1, ..., X_n }[/math] this expands to

对于两个以上的随机变量[math]\displaystyle{ X_1, ..., X_n }[/math]，它扩展为

[math]\displaystyle{ \Eta(X_1, ..., X_n) = -\sum_{x_1 \in\mathcal X_1} ... \sum_{x_n \in\mathcal X_n} P(x_1, ..., x_n) \log_2[P(x_1, ..., x_n)] }[/math]

(Eq.2)

where [math]\displaystyle{ x_1,...,x_n }[/math] are particular values of [math]\displaystyle{ X_1,...,X_n }[/math], respectively, [math]\displaystyle{ P(x_1, ..., x_n) }[/math] is the probability of these values occurring together, and [math]\displaystyle{ P(x_1, ..., x_n) \log_2[P(x_1, ..., x_n)] }[/math] is defined to be 0 if [math]\displaystyle{ P(x_1, ..., x_n)=0 }[/math].

其中[math]\displaystyle{ x_1,...,x_n }[/math]分别是[math]\displaystyle{ X_1,...,X_n }[/math]的特定值，[math]\displaystyle{ P(x_1, ..., x_n) }[/math]是这些值产生交集的概率，如果[math]\displaystyle{ P(x_1, ..., x_n)=0 }[/math]那么[math]\displaystyle{ P(x_1, ..., x_n) \log_2[P(x_1, ..., x_n)] }[/math]定义为0。

Properties 属性

Nonnegativity 非负性

The joint entropy of a set of random variables is a nonnegative number.

一组随机变量的联合熵是一个非负数。

[math]\displaystyle{ H(X,Y) \geq 0 }[/math]

[math]\displaystyle{ H(X_1,\ldots, X_n) \geq 0 }[/math]

Greater than r equal to the maximum of all of the individual entropies 高值性/最值性/大于或等于单个熵的最大值

The joint entropy of a set of variables is greater than or equal to the maximum of all of the individual entropies of the variables in the set.

一组变量的联合熵大于或等于该组变量的所有单个熵的最大值。

[math]\displaystyle{ H(X,Y) \geq \max \left[H(X),H(Y) \right] }[/math]

[math]\displaystyle{ H \bigl(X_1,\ldots, X_n \bigr) \geq \max_{1 \le i \le n} \Bigl\{H\bigl(X_i\bigr) \Bigr\} }[/math]

Less than or equal to the sum of individual entropies 低值性/小于或等于单个熵的总和

The joint entropy of a set of variables is less than or equal to the sum of the individual entropies of the variables in the set. This is an example of subadditivity. This inequality is an equality if and only if [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math] are statistically independent.

一组变量的联合熵小于或等于该组变量各个熵的总和，这是次可加性的一个运用实例。即当且仅当[math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math]和[math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math]独立统计时，该不等式才是等式。

[math]\displaystyle{ H(X,Y) \leq H(X) + H(Y) }[/math]

[math]\displaystyle{ H(X_1,\ldots, X_n) \leq H(X_1) + \ldots + H(X_n) }[/math]

Relations to other entropy measures 与其他熵测度的关系

Joint entropy is used in the definition of conditional entropy

联合熵被用于定义 条件熵Conditional entropy ：

[math]\displaystyle{ H(X|Y) = H(X,Y) - H(Y)\, }[/math],

and [math]\displaystyle{ H(X_1,\dots,X_n) = \sum_{k=1}^n H(X_k|X_{k-1},\dots, X_1) }[/math]

It is also used in the definition of mutual information 它也被用于定义 交互信息Mutual information：

[math]\displaystyle{ \operatorname{I}(X;Y) = H(X) + H(Y) - H(X,Y)\, }[/math]

In quantum information theory, the joint entropy is generalized into the joint quantum entropy.

在 量子信息论Quantum information theory中，使用的是广义化的联合熵，即 联合量子熵Joint quantum entropy。

Applications 应用

A python package for computing all multivariate joint entropies, mutual informations, conditional mutual information, total correlations, information distance in a dataset of n variables is available.

在这里我们提供了一个python软件包，可用于计算n个变量的数据集中的所有多元联合熵、交互信息、条件交互信息、总相关性以及信息距离。

Joint differential entropy 联合微分熵

Definition 定义

The above definition is for discrete random variables and just as valid in the case of continuous random variables. The continuous version of discrete joint entropy is called joint differential (or continuous) entropy. Let [math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math] be a continuous random variables with a joint probability density function [math]\displaystyle{ f(x,y) }[/math]. The differential joint entropy [math]\displaystyle{ h(X,Y) }[/math] is defined as

上文中的定义是针对离散随机变量的，而其实对于连续随机变量，联合熵同样成立。离散联合熵的连续形式称为联合微分（或连续）熵。令[math]\displaystyle{ X }[/math]和[math]\displaystyle{ Y }[/math]分别为具有 联合概率密度函数Joint probability density function [math]\displaystyle{ f(x,y) }[/math]的连续随机变量，那么微分联合熵[math]\displaystyle{ h(X,Y) }[/math]定义为：

[math]\displaystyle{ h(X,Y) = -\int_{\mathcal X , \mathcal Y} f(x,y)\log f(x,y)\,dx dy }[/math]

(Eq.3)

For more than two continuous random variables [math]\displaystyle{ X_1, ..., X_n }[/math] the definition is generalized to:

对于两个以上的连续随机变量[math]\displaystyle{ X_1, ..., X_n }[/math]，其定义可概括为：

[math]\displaystyle{ h(X_1, \ldots,X_n) = -\int f(x_1, \ldots,x_n)\log f(x_1, \ldots,x_n)\,dx_1 \ldots dx_n }[/math]

(Eq.4)

The integral is taken over the support of [math]\displaystyle{ f }[/math]. It is possible that the integral does not exist in which case we say that the differential entropy is not defined.

这里可以用积分处理表达[math]\displaystyle{ f }[/math]。当然，如果微分熵没有定义，那么积分也可能不存在。

Properties 属性

As in the discrete case the joint differential entropy of a set of random variables is smaller or equal than the sum of the entropies of the individual random variables:

与离散条件下的联合熵相似，联合微分熵也具有同样的属性，即：一组随机变量的联合微分熵小于或等于各个随机变量的熵之和：

[math]\displaystyle{ h(X_1,X_2, \ldots,X_n) \le \sum_{i=1}^n h(X_i) }[/math]

The following chain rule holds for two random variables:

以下链式法则适用于两个随机变量：

[math]\displaystyle{ h(X,Y) = h(X|Y) + h(Y) }[/math]

In the case of more than two random variables this generalizes to:

对于两个以上的随机变量，一般可归纳为：

[math]\displaystyle{ h(X_1,X_2, \ldots,X_n) = \sum_{i=1}^n h(X_i|X_1,X_2, \ldots,X_{i-1}) }[/math]

Joint differential entropy is also used in the definition of the mutual information between continuous random variables:

联合微分熵也用于定义连续随机变量之间的交互信息：

[math]\displaystyle{ \operatorname{I}(X,Y)=h(X)+h(Y)-h(X,Y) }[/math]

References 参考文献