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Minimal Achievable Sufficient Statistic Learning

Machine Learning 2019-06-13 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce Minimal Achievable Sufficient Statistic (MASS) Learning, a training method for machine learning models that attempts to produce minimal sufficient statistics with respect to a class of functions (e.g. deep networks) being optimized over. In deriving MASS Learning, we also introduce Conserved Differential Information (CDI), an information-theoretic quantity that - unlike standard mutual information - can be usefully applied to deterministically-dependent continuous random variables like the input and output of a deep network. In a series of experiments, we show that deep networks trained with MASS Learning achieve competitive performance on supervised learning and uncertainty quantification benchmarks.

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@article{arxiv.1905.07822,
  title  = {Minimal Achievable Sufficient Statistic Learning},
  author = {Milan Cvitkovic and Günther Koliander},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.07822},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Published in the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), 23 pages

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