On the computation of Shannon Entropy from Counting Bloom Filters

Abstract

In this short note a method for computing the naive plugin estimator of discrete entropy from a counting Bloom filter will be presented. The method does work reasonably as long as the collision probability in the bloom filter is kept low.

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