Imre Csiszár

22.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
100 papers, 12.8k citations indexed

About

Imre Csiszár is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Imre Csiszár has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 12.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 30 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 20 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Imre Csiszár's work include Wireless Communication Security Techniques (29 papers), Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (18 papers) and Cellular Automata and Applications (14 papers). Imre Csiszár is often cited by papers focused on Wireless Communication Security Techniques (29 papers), Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (18 papers) and Cellular Automata and Applications (14 papers). Imre Csiszár collaborates with scholars based in Hungary, United States and Czechia. Imre Csiszár's co-authors include János Körner, Rudolf Ahlswede, Prakash Narayan, Paul C. Shields, Zsolt Talata, Thomas Breuer, S. Kullback, D. V. Gokhale, Peter Elias and František Matúš and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Journal of Banking & Finance and The Annals of Statistics.

In The Last Decade

Imre Csiszár

99 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

Broadcast channels with confidential messages 1967 2026 1986 2006 1978 1975 1967 1993 2011 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Broadcast channels with confidential messages
    1978 2.3k citations Imre Csiszár, János Körner IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →
  2. $I$-Divergence Geometry of Probability Distributions and Minimization Problems
    1975 942 citations Imre Csiszár profile →
  3. Information-type measures of difference of probability distributions and indirect observation
    1967 861 citations Imre Csiszár Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica profile →
  4. Common randomness in information theory and cryptography. I. Secret sharing
    1993 839 citations Rudolf Ahlswede, Imre Csiszár IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →
  5. Information Theory
    2011 829 citations Imre Csiszár, János Körner profile →
  6. Information Theory: Coding Theorems for Discrete Memoryless Systems
    2014 657 citations Imre Csiszár, János Körner profile →
  7. Why Least Squares and Maximum Entropy? An Axiomatic Approach to Inference for Linear Inverse Problems
    1991 534 citations Imre Csiszár profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Imre Csiszár Hungary 42 6.4k 4.3k 4.1k 2.3k 1.9k 100 12.8k
Fan Chung United States 48 2.1k 0.3× 3.1k 0.7× 3.8k 0.9× 2.3k 1.0× 4.3k 2.2× 270 15.4k
N. J. A. Sloane United States 59 7.4k 1.2× 3.5k 0.8× 8.7k 2.1× 2.2k 1.0× 4.7k 2.4× 238 19.4k
László Lovász Hungary 62 2.8k 0.4× 4.0k 0.9× 4.5k 1.1× 1.1k 0.5× 11.2k 5.8× 255 20.5k
Michael Mitzenmacher United States 49 3.7k 0.6× 10.8k 2.5× 4.1k 1.0× 1.1k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 202 15.6k
John N. Tsitsiklis United States 65 4.7k 0.7× 10.0k 2.3× 7.0k 1.7× 1.3k 0.6× 3.4k 1.8× 262 23.6k
Lieven Vandenberghe United States 36 11.9k 1.9× 9.1k 2.1× 4.7k 1.1× 3.2k 1.4× 4.2k 2.2× 116 31.7k
Noga Alon Israel 66 2.6k 0.4× 4.6k 1.1× 4.9k 1.2× 1.2k 0.5× 11.3k 5.9× 629 18.5k
Martin J. Wainwright United States 61 2.4k 0.4× 5.2k 1.2× 7.3k 1.8× 3.9k 1.7× 1.0k 0.5× 232 18.7k
Thomas H. Cormen United States 16 2.9k 0.4× 6.5k 1.5× 4.8k 1.2× 2.5k 1.1× 2.8k 1.5× 44 16.3k
V. J. Rayward‐Smith United Kingdom 20 2.3k 0.4× 5.0k 1.2× 4.5k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 2.6k 1.3× 76 14.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Breuer, Thomas & Imre Csiszár. (2012). Systematic stress tests with entropic plausibility constraints. Journal of Banking & Finance. 37(5). 1552–1559. 66 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre & János Körner. (2011). Information Theory: Name index. 315 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre & František Matúš. (2007). Generalized maximum likelihood estimates for exponential families. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 141(1-2). 213–246. 11 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf & Imre Csiszár. (2007). On Oblivious Transfer Capacity. 2061–2064. 19 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre, et al.. (2003). Information closure of exponential families and generalized maximum likelihood estimates. 434–434. 5 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre, et al.. (2002). Information projections revisited. 490–490. 14 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre. (1998). Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods - J. Skilling; S. Sibisi.. Metrika. 47. 276–278. 1 indexed citations
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Ahlswede, Rudolf & Imre Csiszár. (1998). Common randomness in information theory and cryptography. II. CR capacity. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 44(1). 225–240. 152 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre. (1998). The method of types [information theory]. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 44(6). 2505–2523. 238 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre & Prakash Narayan. (1995). Channel capacity for a given decoding metric. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 41(1). 35–43. 100 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre, János Körner, László Lovász, K. Marton, & Gábor Simonyi. (1990). Entropy splitting for antiblocking corners and perfect graphs. COMBINATORICA. 10(1). 27–40. 51 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre & Prakash Narayan. (1988). Arbitrarily varying channels with constrained inputs and states. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 34(1). 27–34. 65 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre. (1984). Information geometry and alternating minimization procedures. 1. 205–237. 401 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre. (1976). Review of ́On Measures of Information and Their Characterizationś (Aczél, J., and Daróczy, Z.; 1975). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 22(6). 765–766.
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Csiszár, Imre & Peter Elias. (1976). Topics in Information Theory. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 78 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre. (1974). On the computation of rate-distortion functions (Corresp.). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 20(1). 122–124. 60 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre. (1974). ON AN EXTREMUM PROBLEM OF INFORMATION THEORY.. 63 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre. (1967). Topological property of f-divergence. Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica. 2. 330–339. 13 indexed citations
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Csiszár, Imre. (1967). Information-type measures of difference of probability distributions and indirect observation. Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica. 2. 229–318. 861 indexed citations breakdown →
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Csiszár, Imre. (1967). Two remarks to noiseless coding. Information and Control. 11(3). 317–322. 6 indexed citations

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