Beyond Mutual Information: Extension Profiles and Shape Functions of Random Variable Pairs

arXiv:2606.23849 · cs.IT, math.IT · Submitted 2026-06-22 · Read on arXiv

cs.IT, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-06-22

Updated: 2026-10-20

Terminology

• Mutual Information — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Structural Properties — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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