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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-15 Brian Kulis , Michael I. Jordan

Integration of data from multiple omics techniques is becoming increasingly important in biomedical research. Due to non-uniformity and technical limitations in omics platforms, such integrative analyses on multiple omics, which we refer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Changhee Lee , Mihaela van der Schaar

We present a variational approximation to the information bottleneck of Tishby et al. (1999). This variational approach allows us to parameterize the information bottleneck model using a neural network and leverage the reparameterization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Alexander A. Alemi , Ian Fischer , Joshua V. Dillon , Kevin Murphy

To effectively study complex causal systems, it is often useful to construct abstractions of parts of the system by discarding irrelevant details while preserving key features. The Information Bottleneck (IB) method is a widely used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Francisco N. F. Q. Simoes , Mehdi Dastani , Thijs van Ommen

Collaborative edge sensing systems, particularly in collaborative perception systems in autonomous driving, can significantly enhance tracking accuracy and reduce blind spots with multi-view sensing capabilities. However, their limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhengru Fang , Senkang Hu , Liyan Yang , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

Information Bottleneck (IB) is a widely used framework that enables the extraction of information related to a target random variable from a source random variable. In the objective function, IB controls the trade-off between data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sota Kudo , Naoaki Ono , Shigehiko Kanaya , Ming Huang

In this work, we introduce a novel methodology for divisive hierarchical clustering. Our divisive (``top-down'') approach is motivated by the fact that agglomerative hierarchical clustering (``bottom-up''), which is commonly used for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Jan O. Bauer

Graph based clustering is one of the major clustering methods. Most of it work in three separate steps: similarity graph construction, clustering label relaxing and label discretization with k-means. Such common practice has three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Yudong Han , Lei Zhu , Zhiyong Cheng , Jingjing Li , Xiaobai Liu

The Information Bottleneck (IB) provides an information theoretic principle for representation learning, by retaining all information relevant for predicting label while minimizing the redundancy. Though IB principle has been applied to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Xudong Tian , Zhizhong Zhang , Shaohui Lin , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

The information bottleneck (IB) method aims to find compressed representations of a variable $X$ that retain the most relevant information about a target variable $Y$. We show that for a wide family of distributions -- namely, when $Y$ is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Etam Benger , Shahab Asoodeh , Jun Chen

In this work clustering schemes for uncertain and structured data are considered relying on the notion of Wasserstein barycenters, accompanied by appropriate clustering indices based on the intrinsic geometry of the Wasserstein space where…

The Information Bottleneck (IB) principle offers an information-theoretic framework for analyzing the training process of deep neural networks (DNNs). Its essence lies in tracking the dynamics of two mutual information (MI) values: between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Ivan Butakov , Alexander Tolmachev , Sofia Malanchuk , Anna Neopryatnaya , Alexey Frolov , Kirill Andreev

Cluster analysis is one of the essential tasks in data mining and knowledge discovery. Each type of data poses unique challenges in achieving relatively efficient partitioning of the data into homogeneous groups. While the algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Ruben A. Gevorgyan , Yenok B. Hakobyan

The partial information decomposition (PID) aims to quantify the amount of redundant information that a set of sources provides about a target. Here, we show that this goal can be formulated as a type of information bottleneck (IB) problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Artemy Kolchinsky

Deep multi-view clustering methods have achieved remarkable performance. However, all of them failed to consider the difficulty labels (uncertainty of ground-truth for training samples) over multi-view samples, which may result into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Renhao Sun

This paper presents Hyper-VIB, a hypernetwork-enhanced information bottleneck (IB) approach designed to enable efficient task-oriented communications in 6G collaborative intelligent systems. Leveraging IB theory, our approach enables an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jingchen Peng , Chaowen Deng , Yili Deng , Boxiang Ren , Lu Yang

Existing clustering methods are based on a single granularity of information, such as the distance and density of each data. This most fine-grained based approach is usually inefficient and susceptible to noise. Inspired by adaptive process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Shuyin Xia , Jiang Xie , Guoyin Wang

Multimodal learning significantly benefits cancer survival prediction, especially the integration of pathological images and genomic data. Despite advantages of multimodal learning for cancer survival prediction, massive redundancy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yilan Zhang , Yingxue Xu , Jianqi Chen , Fengying Xie , Hao Chen

Effectively leveraging multimodal data such as various images, laboratory tests and clinical information is gaining traction in a variety of AI-based medical diagnosis and prognosis tasks. Most existing multi-modal techniques only focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yingying Fang , Shuang Wu , Sheng Zhang , Chaoyan Huang , Tieyong Zeng , Xiaodan Xing , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

We consider the problem of learning a neural network classifier. Under the information bottleneck (IB) principle, we associate with this classification problem a representation learning problem, which we call "IB learning". We show that IB…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Masoumeh Soflaei , Hongyu Guo , Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Yongyi Mao , Richong Zhang