Convexity and Operational Interpretation of the Quantum Information Bottleneck Function

10/08/2018
by   Nilanjana Datta, et al.
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In classical information theory, the information bottleneck method (IBM) can be regarded as a method of lossy data compression which focusses on preserving meaningful (or relevant) information. As such it has recently gained a lot of attention, primarily for its applications in machine learning and neural networks. A quantum analogue of the IBM has recently been defined, and an attempt at providing an operational interpretation of the so-called quantum IB function as an optimal rate of an information-theoretic task, has recently been made by Salek et al. However, the interpretation given in that paper has a couple of drawbacks; firstly its proof is based on a conjecture that the quantum IB function is convex, and secondly, the expression for the rate function involves certain entropic quantities which occur explicitly in the very definition of the underlying information-theoretic task, thus making the latter somewhat contrived. We overcome both of these drawbacks by first proving the convexity of the quantum IB function, and then giving an alternative operational interpretation of it as the optimal rate of a bona fide information-theoretic task, namely that of quantum source coding with quantum side information at the decoder, and relate the quantum IB function to the rate region of this task. We similarly show that the related privacy funnel function is convex (both in the classical and quantum case). However, we comment that it is unlikely that the quantum privacy funnel function can characterize the optimal asymptotic rate of an information theoretic task, since even its classical version lacks a certain additivity property which turns out to be essential.

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