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We consider mean squared estimation with lookahead of a continuous-time signal corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise. We show that the mutual information rate function, i.e., the mutual information rate as function of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Kartik Venkat , Tsachy Weissman , Yair Carmon , Shlomo Shamai

Mutual information is widely used, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of categorical random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the descriptive value, one must consider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Marcus Hutter , Marco Zaffalon

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

Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) is a measure of conditional dependence between random variables X and Y, given another random variable Z. It can be used to quantify conditional dependence among variables in many data-driven inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Sudipto Mukherjee , Himanshu Asnani , Sreeram Kannan

We study the problem of community detection when there is covariate information about the node labels and one observes multiple correlated networks. We provide an asymptotic upper bound on the per-node mutual information as well as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Vaishakhi Mayya , Galen Reeves

Consider the minimum mean-square error (MMSE) of estimating an arbitrary random variable from its observation contaminated by Gaussian noise. The MMSE can be regarded as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as well as a functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-21 Dongning Guo , Yihong Wu , Shlomo Shamai , Sergio Verdu

In this paper, we develop achievability schemes for symmetric $K$-user interference channels with a rate-limited feedback from each receiver to the corresponding transmitter. We study this problem under two different channel models: the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Mehdi Ashraphijuo , Vaneet Aggarwal , Xiaodong Wang

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 characterize the capacity region to within 2 bits/s/Hz and the symmetric capacity to within 1 bit/s/Hz for the two-user Gaussian interference channel (IC) with feedback. We develop achievable schemes and derive a new outer bound to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-20 Changho Suh , David Tse

We introduce the Mutual Information Machine (MIM), a novel formulation of representation learning, using a joint distribution over the observations and latent state in an encoder/decoder framework. Our key principles are symmetry and mutual…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-10 Micha Livne , Kevin Swersky , David J. Fleet

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies sensing and communication, and improves the efficiency of the spectrum, energy, and hardware. In this work, we investigate the ISAC beamforming design to maximize the mutual information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Jin Li , Gui Zhou , Tantao Gong , Nan Liu

In this paper, we investigate the signal shaping in a two-user discrete time memoryless Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with computation. It is shown that by optimizing input probability distribution, the transmission rate per…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Zhiyong Chen , Hui Liu

The symmetric K user interference channel with fully connected topology is considered, in which (a) each receiver suffers interference from all other (K-1) transmitters, and (b) each transmitter has causal and noiseless feedback from its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Soheil Mohajer , Ravi Tandon , H. Vincent Poor

The degrees of freedom (DoF) number of the fully connected K-user Gaussian interference channel is known to be K/2. In [1], the DoF for the same channel model was studied while allowing each message to be available at its own transmitter as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-29 Aly El Gamal , V. Sreekanth Annapureddy , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Estimating mutual information (MI) from samples is a fundamental problem in statistics, machine learning, and data analysis. Recently it was shown that a popular class of non-parametric MI estimators perform very poorly for strongly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Shuyang Gao , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

We consider distributed optimization over a $d$-dimensional space, where $K$ remote clients send coded gradient estimates over an {\em additive Gaussian Multiple Access Channel (MAC)} with noise variance $\sigma_z^2$. Furthermore, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Shubham Jha

We consider interference alignment (IA) over K-user Gaussian MIMO interference channel (MIMO-IC) when the SNR is not asymptotically high. We introduce a generalization of IA which enables receive diversity inside the interference-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Maxime Guillaud

This paper characterizes the effect of finite rate channel state feedback on the sum rate of a multi-access multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. We propose to control the users jointly, specifically, we first choose the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Wei Dai , Brian Rider , Youjian Liu

We investigate how to exploit intermittent feedback for interference management by studying the two-user Gaussian interference channel (IC). We approximately characterize (within a universal constant) the capacity region for the Gaussian IC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Can Karakus , I-Hsiang Wang , Suhas Diggavi

The mutual information between a complex-valued channel input and its complex-valued output is decomposed into four parts based on polar coordinates: an amplitude term, a phase term, and two mixed terms. Numerical results for the additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Bernhard Goebel , René-Jean Essiambre , Gerhard Kramer , Peter J. Winzer , Norbert Hanik