Browsing University of Hertfordshire by Author "Ay, Nihat"

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    • Information Decomposition Based on Cooperative Game Theory 

      Ay, Nihat; Polani, Daniel; Virgo, Nathaniel (2020-12-05)
      We offer a new approach to the information decomposition problem in information theory: given a ‘target’ random variable co-distributed with multiple ‘source’ variables, how can we decompose the mutual information into a ...

    • Zipf's Law : Balancing signal usage cost and communication efficiency 

      Salge, Christoph; Ay, Nihat; Polani, Daniel; Prokopenko, Mikhail (2015-10-01)
      We propose a model that explains the reliable emergence of power laws (e.g., Zipf's law) during the development of different human languages. The model incorporates the principle of least effort in communications, minimizing ...