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Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence, with a myriad of applications to information theory, statistics, and machine learning. While it possesses many desirable structural properties, the estimation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald

We propose a novel approach to the problem of mutual information (MI) estimation via introducing a family of estimators based on normalizing flows. The estimator maps original data to the target distribution, for which MI is easier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ivan Butakov , Alexander Tolmachev , Sofia Malanchuk , Anna Neopryatnaya , Alexey Frolov

We define Persistent Mutual Information (PMI) as the Mutual (Shannon) Information between the past history of a system and its evolution significantly later in the future. This quantifies how much past observations enable long term…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-03-13 R. C. Ball , M. Diakonova , R. S. MacKay

This correspondence studies the basic problem of classifications - how to evaluate different classifiers. Although the conventional performance indexes, such as accuracy, are commonly used in classifier selection or evaluation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-11-26 Yong Wang , Bao-Gang Hu

We introduce a novel Mutual Information (MI) estimator that fundamentally reframes the discriminative approach. Instead of training a classifier to discriminate between joint and marginal distributions, we learn a normalizing flow that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ivan Butakov , Alexander Semenenko , Valeriya Kirova , Alexey Frolov , Ivan Oseledets

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence between two variables, yet accurate estimation from finite data remains notoriously difficult. No estimator is universally reliable, and common approaches fail in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-02 Eslam Abdelaleem , K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

A recent article proposed reduced mutual information for evaluation of clustering, classification and community detection. The motivation is that the standard normalized mutual information (NMI) may give counter-intuitive answers under…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Zhong-Yuan Zhang

Providing natural language-based explanations to justify recommendations helps to improve users' satisfaction and gain users' trust. However, as current explanation generation methods are commonly trained with an objective to mimic existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yurou Zhao , Yiding Sun , Ruidong Han , Fei Jiang , Lu Guan , Xiang Li , Wei Lin , Weizhi Ma , Jiaxin Mao

Mutual Information (MI) is a crucial measure for capturing dependencies between variables, but exact computation is challenging in high dimensions with intractable likelihoods, impacting accuracy and robustness. One idea is to use an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-13 Forough Fazeliasl , Michael Minyi Zhang , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong

The scarcity of labeled data often impedes the application of deep learning to the segmentation of medical images. Semi-supervised learning seeks to overcome this limitation by exploiting unlabeled examples in the learning process. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Jizong Peng , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental quantity in information theory and machine learning. However, direct estimation of MI is intractable, even if the true joint probability density for the variables of interest is known, as it involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Rob Brekelmans , Sicong Huang , Marzyeh Ghassemi , Greg Ver Steeg , Roger Grosse , Alireza Makhzani

In this work, we present a novel unsupervised image registration algorithm. It is differentiable end-to-end and can be used for both multi-modal and mono-modal registration. This is done using mutual information (MI) as a metric. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Abhishek Nan , Matthew Tennant , Uriel Rubin , Nilanjan Ray

We provide an information-theoretic framework for studying the generalization properties of machine learning algorithms. Our framework ties together existing approaches, including uniform convergence bounds and recent methods for adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Thomas Steinke , Lydia Zakynthinou

A new trend in deep learning, represented by Mutual Information Neural Estimation (MINE) and Information Noise Contrast Estimation (InfoNCE), is emerging. In this trend, similarity functions and Estimated Mutual Information (EMI) are used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Chenguang Lu

Shannon entropy was defined for probability distributions and then its using was expanded to measure the uncertainty of knowledge for systems with complete information. In this article, it is proposed to extend the using of Shannon entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Vasile Patrascu

Feature selection methods are usually evaluated by wrapping specific classifiers and datasets in the evaluation process, resulting very often in unfair comparisons between methods. In this work, we develop a theoretical framework that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-11 Cláudia Pascoal , M. Rosário Oliveira , António Pacheco , Rui Valadas

Information-theoretic quantities reveal dependencies among variables in the structure of joint, marginal, and conditional entropies, but leave some fundamentally different systems indistinguishable. Furthermore, there is no consensus on how…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Abel Jansma

Feature selection problems arise in a variety of applications, such as microarray analysis, clinical prediction, text categorization, image classification and face recognition, multi-label learning, and classification of internet traffic.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-15 Francisco Macedo , M. Rosário Oliveira , António Pacheco , Rui Valadas

In this paper, we present several novel representations of $\alpha$-mutual information ($\alpha$-MI) in terms of R{\' e}nyi divergence and conditional R{\' e}nyi entropy. The representations are based on the variational characterizations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Akira Kamatsuka , Takashiro Yoshida

We propose a semantic similarity metric for image registration. Existing metrics like euclidean distance or normalized cross-correlation focus on aligning intensity values, giving difficulties with low intensity contrast or noise. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Steffen Czolbe , Oswin Krause , Aasa Feragen