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Invariant components of synergy, redundancy, and unique information among three variables

Pica, G.
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Piasini, E.
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Chicharro, D.
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Panzeri, S.
2017
  • journal article

Periodico
ENTROPY
Abstract
In a system of three stochastic variables, the Partial Information Decomposition (PID) of Williams and Beer dissects the information that two variables (sources) carry about a third variable (target) into nonnegative information atoms that describe redundant, unique, and synergistic modes of dependencies among the variables. However, the classification of the three variables into two sources and one target limits the dependency modes that can be quantitatively resolved, and does not naturally suit all systems. Here, we extend the PID to describe trivariate modes of dependencies in full generality, without introducing additional decomposition axioms or making assumptions about the target/source nature of the variables. By comparing different PID lattices of the same system, we unveil a finer PID structure made of seven nonnegative information subatoms that are invariant to different target/source classifications and that are sufficient to describe the relationships among all PID lattices. This finer structure naturally splits redundant information into two nonnegative components: the source redundancy, which arises from the pairwise correlations between the source variables, and the non-source redundancy, which does not, and relates to the synergistic information the sources carry about the target. The invariant structure is also sufficient to construct the system's entropy, hence it characterizes completely all the interdependencies in the system.
DOI
10.3390/e19090451
WOS
WOS:000411527100023
Archivio
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/127555
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85029163450
Diritti
open access
Soggetti
  • Information decomposi...

  • Information theory

  • Multivariate dependen...

  • Redundancy

  • Synergy

  • Settore FIS/07 - Fisi...

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