# On the computation of Shannon Entropy from Counting Bloom Filters

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06609 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.06609/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 19 Feb 2018.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

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.