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Entropy submodularity for sums

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For independent U,V,V′ with V and V′ identically distributed,
H(V+V′)+H(U)≤H(U+V)+H(U+V′).
(1)
This additive form of entropy submodularity follows from data processing and invariance of conditional entropy under translations.

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