Rick Quax will visit Yale

Group member Dr. Rick Quax will visit the Yale University’s School of Medicine to work together with Smita Krishnaswamy and her team. Their goal is to combine Rick’s novel information-theoretic methods concerning causality and synergy together with the...

How to quantify synergy in complex systems

  Quantifying synergy among stochastic variables is an important open problem in information theory. Information synergy occurs when multiple sources together predict an outcome variable better than the sum of single-source predictions. As simple examples,...