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2016　Information Theory

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Academic unit or major
Undergraduate major in Mathematical and Computing Science
Instructor(s)
Kabashima Yoshiyuki  Watanabe Sumio 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Mon5-6(W834)  Thr5-6(W834)  
Group
-
Course number
MCS.T333
Credits
2
Academic year
2016
Offered quarter
4Q
Syllabus updated
2017/1/11
Lecture notes updated
-
Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

While possibly so obvious that we normally are not even aware of the fact, substances existing in the real world naturally feature attributes physically quantifiable by man in weight and length. The academic disciplines of physics, chemistry, and biology have been developed to discuss nature quantitatively and objectively by focusing on these attributes. Now, can these academic disciplines be developed into "information" existing in the abstract world? One answer to this is "information theory". Information can be discussed quantitatively and objectively by focusing on the quantity of "code length" required for recording and transmitting information. Specifically, lecture topics will include information source modeling, self-information and entropy, source coding, and channel coding.

Student learning outcomes

Attainment target: At the end of the course, students will have the skill of quantitatively handling "information" by using notions of information quantity.
Theme: The purpose of this course is to grasp the following three issues: 1) notions of information quantities, such as self-information, entropy, joint entropy, conditional entropy, mutual information, etc., 2) elements of source coding, and 3) elements of channel coding.

Keywords

self-information, entropy, mutual information, source coding, channel coding

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills Intercultural skills Communication skills Critical thinking skills ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Towards the end of class, students are given exercise problems related to the lecture given that day to solve.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 What is information theory? Overview of information theory
Class 2 Models of information source Probabilistic modeling of information source, definition of information quantity, redundancy and coding.
Class 3 Entropy (1): Derivation of entropy, properties of entropy Definition of entropy, derivation of related equations and inequalities
Class 4 Entropy (2): Extension of entropy, entropy of Markov information source Entropy of extended source, joint entropy, conditional entropy, entropy of Markov information source
Class 5 Data compression/source coding Properties of codes, prefix property, Kraft's inequality
Class 6 Examples of source coding Shannon-Fano code, Huffman code
Class 7 Source coding theorem Derivation of source coding theorem
Class 8 Test level of understanding with exercise problems and summary of the first part of the course - Solve exercise problems covering the contents of classes 1–7. Test level of understanding and self-evaluate achievement for classes 1–7.
Class 9 Models of communication channel Probabilistic modeling of communication channels, classification of communication channels
Class 10 Mutual information and channel capacity Definitions of mutual information and channel capacity, evaluation for stationary memoryless channels
Class 11 Channel coding/error correcting codes Definition of channel coding, linear codes
Class 12 Channel coding theorem Derivation of channel coding theorem
Class 13 Evaluation of probability of decoding failure Evaluation of reliability function based on random coding
Class 14 Asymptotic equipartition property (1): Asymptotic equipartition property (AEP), typical sequence Definition of typical sequences, evaluation of the number of typical sequences
Class 15 Asymptotic equipartition property (2): Derivation of source/channel coding theorems from AEP Derivation of source/channel coding theorems from AEP

Textbook(s)

Shigeichi Hirasawa, Introduction of information theory, Baifukan publishing (Japanese) ISBN: 978-4-563-01486-5

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas, Elements of information theory (2nd Edition), John Wiley & Sons, Inc ISBN: 978-0-471-24195-9

Assessment criteria and methods

Students' knowledge of information quantities, skills for handling them, and understanding of their application such as data compression and channel coding will be assessed. Midterm and final exams 80%, exercise problems 20%.

Related courses

  • MCS.T212 ： Fundamentals of Probability
  • MCS.T223 ： Mathematical Statistics
  • MCS.T312 ： Markov Analysis
  • MCS.T332 ： Data Analysis

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

Students must have successfully completed both Fundamentals of ProbabilityI (MCS.T212) and Mathematical Statistics (MCS.T223) or have equivalent knowledge.

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