Entropy

Recent Advances in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1501 | Submission Open

Keywords: information security; quantum communication; continuous-variable quantum key distribution; post processing; information reconciliation; error correcting codes; privacy amplification; secret key rate

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Uncertainty Quantification and Entropy Analysis

edited by

Marcin Kamiński

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1397 | Submission Open

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation; stochastic perturbation method; semi-analytical approaches; Bayesian methods; polynomial chaos expansion; reliability assessment; durability prediction; probabilistic entropy; probabilistic distance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Mathematical Modeling for Ion Channels

edited by

Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1262 | Submission Open

Keywords: ion channels; channel gating; patch clamp; statistical physics; applied mathematics; phenomenological models; Brownian dynamics; entropic potential; molecular dynamics; mechanism of selectivity; activation of gate-selectivity filter coupling; ion channel permeation mechanism; conformational dynamics; allosteric coupling; ionic currents through biological membranes; biomimetic channels; nanopores; rectification; time series analysis; information entropy; Shannon entropy; sample entropy; multiscale entropy; slope entropy; entropic effects of channel gating

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropy Analysis of Electrophysiological Signals

edited by

Elzbieta Olejarczyk

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 693 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; approximate entropy; sample entropy; multiscale entropy; multivariate entropy; biomedical signal analysis; electrophysiological signals; electroencephalography (EEG); electrocardiography (ECG); electromyography (EMG); complexity; information theory; nonlinear dynamics; neural system; neural dynamics; cognitive neuroscience; sleep research; brain– computer interface

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

The Information Bottleneck Method: Theory and Applications

edited by

Shujian Yu

and Robert Jenssen

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 626 | Submission Open

Keywords: information bottleneck; neural networks; deep learning generalization; explainable neural networks; deep reinforcement learning; multimodal learning; self-supervised learning; graph neural networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods

edited by

Michel Broniatowski

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 587 | Submission Open

Keywords: variational inference; conditional inference; Bayesian inference; divergence-based inference; misspecification; robustness; machine learning; outlier detection; extreme values; semi-parametric models; depth estimators; discrete and categorized data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Deep Generative Models for Simulating Physical Systems

edited by

Kim Andrea Nicoli

, Lei Wang and

Anindita Maiti

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 210 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative models; variational inference; amortized inference; lattice field theory; monte Carlo methods; normalizing flows; autoregressive models; statistical learning theory; Bayesian learning; neural networks quantum states; enhanced sampling; variational free energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications—Dedicated to Professor Paul Vitanyi on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

edited by Ming Li

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open

Keywords: Kolmogorov complexity; randomness; compression and LLM; information distance; theory; and applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Methods from Differential Topology and Differential Geometry in Information Geometry

edited by

Stéphane Puechmorel

,

Frank Nielsen

and

Frédéric Barbaresco

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: foliations; gauge structures; statistical manifolds; symplectic geometry; contact geometry; riemannian and sub-riemannian geometry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Physics: An Information Theory

edited by

Davi Geiger

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open

Keywords: Gibbs entropy; thermodynamic entropy; quantum entropy; quantum thermalization; black hole entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Mutual Information in Statistical Learning

edited by Philip E. Cheng and Michelle Liou

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open

Keywords: conditional mutual information; discrete data analysis; entropy; feature selection; mutual information

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Quantum Criticality and Emergent Phases in Strongly Correlated and Frustrated Materials

edited by

Sangyun Lee

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum phase transition; quantum critical point (QCP); quantum spin liquids; strongly correlated electron systems; unconventional superconductivity; frustrated materials; non-Fermi liquid behavior; competing orders and emergent phases

Open Quantum Systems Applied to Quantum Computation

edited by

Nadja Bernardes

and Francesco Petruccione

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open

Keywords: open quantum systems; quantum simulation; variational quantum methods; quantum algorithms; dissipative quantum computation; open quantum walk

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Applications of Information-Theoretic Concepts for Generative AI Systems

edited by

Deniz Gençağa

and Rita Singh

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: information-theoretic learning; generative artificial intelligence; deep generative models; transformer architectures; variational autoencoders (VAEs); generative adversarial networks (GANs); diffusion probabilistic models; large language models (LLMs)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics in Astrophysics

edited by

Jiulin Du

submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 541 | Submission Open

Keywords: plasma astrophysics with non-Maxwell distributions; astrophysical plasma and space plasma; planetary plasmas; transport theory in astrophysics; gravitational waves; self-gravitating systems; solar and stellar physics; galactic dynamics; dark matter; dark energy; cosmology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)

Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning

edited by Martin Trapp and

Pierre Alquier

submission deadline 16 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6249 | Submission Open

Keywords: probabilistic machine learning; approximate Bayesian inference; variational inference; tractable probabilistic inference; Bayesian deep learning; probabilistic circuits; uncertainty quantification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Entropy in Quantum Systems and Quantum Field Theory (QFT): Gravity, 3rd Edition

edited by

Ignazio Licata

submission deadline 17 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3700 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum open systems and nonequilibrium quantum field theory; quantum fields background and particle creation; dissipative dynamics in QM and QFT; quantum entropies; noise; and fluctuations; coherence and decoherence in quantum systems; entanglement entropy in quantum field theory; nonequilibrium quantum processes in the early universe; Bekenstein-Hawking entropy; Ryu– Takayanagi entropy; holographic approaches; space time thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Aspects of Social Dynamics: Models and Concepts

edited by

Nikolay K. Vitanov

submission deadline 27 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4470 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical models; social systems; statistical physics; thermodynamics; mathematical biology; mathematical sociology; nonlinear dynamics; game theory; time series analysis; theory of networks; social sciences; animal societies; human societies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Ising Model—100 Years Old and Still Attractive

edited by

Adam Lipowski

submission deadline 28 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3410 | Submission Open

Keywords: spin models; statistical mechanics; Monte Carlo simulations; phase transitions; sociophysics; econophysics; artificial intelligence; machine learning; inference; computational biology; neuroscience; optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropy: From Atoms to Complex Systems

edited by

Caroline Desgranges

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3728 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; entropy production; machine learning; Monte Carlo; molecular dynamics; fluctuation theorems; thermodynamics; statistical physics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

edited by Zhian Jia and Dagomir Kaszlikowski

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2937 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; quantum games; generalized probabilistic theory; quantum computation; quantum algorithm; quantum simulation; quantum metrology; quantum entanglement; steering; and nonlocality; quantum contextuality; topological quantum information; quantum error correction; quantum memory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Theory and Data Compression

edited by Tsachy Weissman

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2020 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; data compression (lossless and lossy); compression complexity; source coding; coding theory; distortion; point clouds

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Failure Diagnosis of Complex Systems

edited by

Tao Wang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1921 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; entropy; deep learning; nonlinear dynamics; fault detection; fault diagnosis; fault pattern recognition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

Entropy-Based Applications in Economics, Finance, and Management, 4th Edition

edited by

Joanna Olbryś

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1066 | Submission Open

Keywords: information entropy; fuzzy entropy; maximum entropy; copula entropy; structural entropy; transfer entropy; permutation entropy; slope entropy; approximate entropy; sample entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

SUURI of Information Geometry: Dedicated to SUURI Engineer Professor Shun’ichi Amari on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday

edited by

Antonio M. Scarfone

and

Tatsuaki Wada

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 902 | Submission Open

Keywords: information geometry; α -geometry; information theory; machine learning; neural network; statistics inference; geometro-thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Causal Inference in Statistics and AI

edited by Jalal Etesami and

Wray L. Buntine

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 899 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal discovery; causal effect estimation and counterfactual inference; causal representation learning; high-dimensional causal inference; fairness; transparency; and explainability in AI; time-series and dynamic causal inference; statistical aspects of causal inference; sensitivity analysis and robustness in causal models; foundational theories of causal inference; applications in healthcare; economics; and AI; information theoretic approaches; Granger causality; transfer entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information, 3rd Edition

edited by

Yi-Cheng Zhang

and

Shimin Cai

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open

Keywords: information systems; neural networks; information theory; complexity theory; statistical physics; complex networks; complexity and entropy in AI; data-driven modeling; machine learning and deep learning; time series analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Information Theory for Data Science, AI and Machine Learning

edited by

Irad Ben-Gal

and

Amichai Painsky

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 171 | Submission Open

Keywords: data science; machine learning; AI; statistics and inference; information theory; federated learning; reinforcement learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era, Second Edition

edited by Xiao Yuan, Xiaoming Zhang and Bujiao Wu

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum computing; noisy intermediate-scale quantum; variational quantum simulation; quantum computational chemistry; quantum materials; quantum error mitigation; quantum error correction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Unraveling Water–Nanomaterial Interactions

edited by

Qing Huang

and

Amil Aligayev

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 154 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanomaterials; nanoparticles; proteins; water interface; hydration; thermodynamics; kinetics; surface chemistry; self-assembly; colloidal stability; biocompatibility; confined water; spectroscopy; molecular dynamics; density functional theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Energy Transition: Exergy, Emissions and Optimization

edited by

Monica Carvalho

and

Adriano Da Silva Marques

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: life cycle assessment; thermoeconomics; exergoeconomics; exergoenvironmental assessment; energy optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Data Analysis for Complex Systems

edited by Ixandra Achitouv

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 89 | Submission Open

Keywords: data-driven analysis in complex systems; machine learning and complex systems; stochastic propagation in networks; chaos; criticality; and emerging phenomena; data analysis and multi-scaled simulations; noise and signal in complex systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

Statistical Planning, Inference, and Decision Making in High-Dimensional Data Analysis

edited by

S. Ejaz Ahmed

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; statistics; statistical learning; statistical inference; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Private Information Retrieval and Its Applications

edited by

Sajani Vithana

and

Syed A. Jafar

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 80 | Submission Open

Keywords: private information retrieval; capacity-achieving schemes; threat models; quantum pir; privacy-preserving machine learning; private distributed computations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

New Trends on Quantum Batteries and Energetics in the Quantum Regime, 2nd Edition

edited by

Dario Ferraro

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum batteries; coherent energy transfer and manipulation; open quantum systems; many-body quantum systems; quantum simulations; quantum optimal control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Next-Generation Channel Coding: Theory and Applications

edited by

Min Qiu

,

Xiaowei Wu

,

Peng Kang

and Jinhong Yuan

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2261 | Submission Open

Keywords: LDPC codes; turbo codes; polar codes; coded modulations; spatially coupled codes; coding hardware architectures; learning-based coding schemes; rateless codes; joint source– channel coding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Rethinking Representation Learning in the Age of Large Models

edited by

Yuhang Liu

,

Xinyu Zhang

and Qingsen Yan

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1067 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models; multi-modal models; generative AI; representation learning; causality; entropy; visual perception; efficient AI training; interpretable AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Advances in Entropy and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jorge Arturo Alfaro-Ayala

and

José de Jesús Ramírez-Minguela

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1014 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy and CFD in laminar and turbulent flows; entropy generation rate by fluid flow and heat/mass transfer processes; entropy generation rate in multiphase flows; entropy generation rate in chemically reactive flows; optimization with the second law of thermodynamics and CFD; entropy generation rate in biological and physiological flows; entropy generation rate in nano- and micro-fluid flows; entropy and CFD in thermal equipment; such as fuel cells; solar collectors; heat exchangers; combustors; ovens; refrigeration cabins; etc.; entropy and CFD in devices used to generate energy; such as horizontal/vertical wind turbines; gas/vapor turbines; etc.; entropy and CFD in other equipment; such as compressors; blowers; stirred tanks; etc.; entropy and CFD in biological tissues; such as aorta; veins; heart; etc.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Systems

edited by

Alina Cristiana Gavriluţ

and

Maricel Agop

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 991 | Submission Open

Keywords: deterministic chaos; bifurcations; strange attractors; scale relativity theory; multifractality; non-linear behavior

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Information Theory in Control Systems, 3rd Edition

edited by

Adrian-Mihail Stoica

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-agent systems; optimal control; optimal estimation and filtering; communication channel constraints; decentralized control; fault detection; isolation and recovery

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Space Quantum Communication

edited by

Laszlo Bacsardi

and

Morio Toyoshima

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum key distribution; entanglement distribution; quantum memories; quantum channels; satellite-based quantum communication; deep space quantum communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Stochastic Processes in Pricing Financial Derivatives

edited by

Piotr Nowak

and Dariusz Gątarek

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 35 | Submission Open

Keywords: financial derivatives pricing; Black– Scholes model; stochastic processes; Lé vy processes; semimartingales; Dupire formula

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Network Information Theory and Its Applications

edited by

Yanlin Geng

, Youlong Wu and Ling Liu

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8031 | Submission Open

Keywords: network information theory; capacity region; Gaussian noise; information inequality; distributed system; federated learning; channel coding; source coding; randomness generation; integrated sensing and communication; coded caching and computing; communication for computing; network coding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Covariance, Multiverse, and Stochastic Effects in Classical Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Gravity

edited by

Massimo Tessarotto

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1047 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum mechanics; quantum gravity; quantum effective minimum length

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Advances in Complex Networks and Their Applications, from COMPLEX NETWORKS 2025

edited by

Hocine Cherifi

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 324 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural network measures; community structure; link analysis and ranking; motif discovery in complex networks; network models; diffusion and epidemics; temporal networks; multilayer networks; dynamics on/of networks; synchronization in networks; resilience and robustness of networks; controlling networks; reputation; influence; and trust; mobility; networks in finance and economics; ecological networks and food webs; earth science applications; biological networks; brain networks; urban systems and networks; network medicine; machine learning and networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Foundations and Frontiers of Information Theory—Dedicated to Professor H. Vincent Poor on the Occasion of His 75th Birthday

edited by

Onur Günlü

,

Holger Boche

,

Giuseppe Caire

,

Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)

and Osvaldo Simeone

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 293 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; wireless networks; network security; statistical signal processing; efficient machine learning for engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Information Theory and Differential Privacy

edited by

Amirreza Zamani

and Mina Sheikhalishahi

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 156 | Submission Open

Keywords: information-theoretic differential privacy; differentially private distributed computing; differential privacy in fairness; differential privacy in network coding; differentially private learning algorithms; differential privacy in coded computing; differential privacy in network information theory; differential privacy in reinforcement learning and federated learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Image Encryption and Privacy Protection Based on Chaotic Systems—Third Edition

edited by

Congxu Zhu

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: chaos; chaotic system; complexity analysis; information theory; entropy analysis and calculation; image encryption algorithms; privacy protection schemes; complex networks and artificial intelligence technology

Harnessing Low-Dimensional Structures in Machine Learning and Signal Processing

edited by

Jiaxi Ying

and

Jun Chen

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-dimensional structures; sparse representations; low-rank models; tensor decomposition; compressed sensing; nonconvex optimization; information-theoretic bounds; neural network compression; efficient AI systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

Time Series Analysis for Signal Processing

edited by Ruobin Gao,

Yang Yu

and

Zicheng Wang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: time series analysis; time series forecasting; long-range forecasting; neural networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

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