Information Theoretic Principles for Agent Learning

Jerry D. Gibson is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2007-2008. He is an IEEE Fellow, and he has received The Fredrick Emmons Terman Award (1990), the 1993 IEEE Signal Processing Society Senior Paper Award, the 2009 IEEE Technical Committee on Wireless Communications Recognition Award, and the 2010 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He is the author, coauthor, and editor of several books, the most recent of which are The Mobile Communications Handbook (Editor, 3rd ed., 2012), Rate Distortion Bounds for Voice and Video (Coauthor with Jing Hu, NOW Publishers, 2014), and Information Theory and Rate Distortion Theory for Communications and Compression (Morgan-Claypool, 2014). His research interests are lossy source coding, wireless communications and networks, and digital signal processing.

Background and Overview.- Entropy and Mutual Information.- Differential Entropy, Entropy Rate, and Maximum Entropy.- Typical Sequences and The AEP.- Markov Chains and Cascaded Systems.- Hypothesis Testing, Estimation, Information, and Sufficient Statistics.- Information Theoretic Quantities and Learning.- Estimation and Entropy Power.- Time Series Analyses.- Information Bottleneck Principle.- Channel Capacity.- Rate Distortion Theory.