A Mathematical Theory of Pragmatic Information

arXiv:2609.10986 · cs.IT, cs.AI, cs.RO, cs.SY, eess.SY, math.IT · Submitted 2026-09-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.IT, cs.AI, cs.RO, cs.SY, eess.SY, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-30

Comments: 152 pages, 18 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Abstraction — 51× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Value of Information — 47× in this paper
Cost of Information — 44× in this paper
Fidelity — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Embodied AI — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Perceptual Pragmatic Mutual Information — 8× in this paper
Aggregation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Core — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Expressive Pragmatic Mutual Information — 7× in this paper
Additive Decomposition — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Generalization — 6× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
Resource Constraints — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Action Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Cognitive-Regulation Subsystem — 4× in this paper
Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Symbolic-Conduction Subsystem — 4× in this paper
Unified Framework — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
AI Agents — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Edge AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Linear Quadratic Gaussian — 2× in this paper
Modularity — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
Multi-Agent System — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Partially Observable Markov Decision Process — 2× in this paper
Prospective Perceptual Pragmatic Mutual Information — 2× in this paper
Redundancy — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Active Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Agent Interactions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Axioms — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Closed-Loop Control — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Closed-Loop System — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Hamming Distance — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Hierarchical Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Online Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Pragmatics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Prospective Expressive Pragmatic Mutual Information — 1× in this paper
Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Steering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Theoretical Guarantees — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

A Mathematical Theory of Pragmatic Information

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