Ambiguous signals and efficient codes

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Autores principales: Bauer, Marianne, Bialek, William
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Publicado: 2025
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author Bauer, Marianne
Bialek, William
author_facet Bauer, Marianne
Bialek, William
contents In many biological networks the responses of individual elements are ambiguous. We consider a scenario in which many sensors respond to a shared signal, each with limited information capacity, and ask that the outputs together convey as much information as possible about an underlying relevant variable. In a low noise limit where we can make analytic progress, we show that individually ambiguous responses optimize overall information transmission.
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spellingShingle Ambiguous signals and efficient codes
Bauer, Marianne
Bialek, William
Biological Physics
Molecular Networks
In many biological networks the responses of individual elements are ambiguous. We consider a scenario in which many sensors respond to a shared signal, each with limited information capacity, and ask that the outputs together convey as much information as possible about an underlying relevant variable. In a low noise limit where we can make analytic progress, we show that individually ambiguous responses optimize overall information transmission.
title Ambiguous signals and efficient codes
topic Biological Physics
Molecular Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23531