Shannon invariants: A scalable approach to information decomposition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15779v1
• Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:41:38 GMT
• Title: Shannon invariants: A scalable approach to information decomposition
• Authors: Aaron J. Gutknecht, Fernando E. Rosas, David A. Ehrlich, Abdullah Makkeh, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Michael Wibral,
• Abstract summary: "Shannon invariants" are quantities that capture essential properties of high-order information processing.<n>Our theoretical results demonstrate how Shannon invariants can be used to resolve long-standing ambiguities.<n>Our results reveal distinctive information-processing signatures of various deep learning architectures.
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• Abstract: Distributed systems, such as biological and artificial neural networks, process information via complex interactions engaging multiple subsystems, resulting in high-order patterns with distinct properties across scales. Investigating how these systems process information remains challenging due to difficulties in defining appropriate multivariate metrics and ensuring their scalability to large systems. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel framework based on what we call "Shannon invariants" -- quantities that capture essential properties of high-order information processing in a way that depends only on the definition of entropy and can be efficiently calculated for large systems. Our theoretical results demonstrate how Shannon invariants can be used to resolve long-standing ambiguities regarding the interpretation of widely used multivariate information-theoretic measures. Moreover, our practical results reveal distinctive information-processing signatures of various deep learning architectures across layers, which lead to new insights into how these systems process information and how this evolves during training. Overall, our framework resolves fundamental limitations in analyzing high-order phenomena and offers broad opportunities for theoretical developments and empirical analyses.

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