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Many recent methods for unsupervised or self-supervised representation learning train feature extractors by maximizing an estimate of the mutual information (MI) between different views of the data. This comes with several immediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Michael Tschannen , Josip Djolonga , Paul K. Rubenstein , Sylvain Gelly , Mario Lucic

Measuring model performance is a key issue for deep learning practitioners. However, we often lack the ability to explain why a specific architecture attains superior predictive accuracy for a given data set. Often, validation accuracy is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Marius C. Landverk , Signe Riemer-Sørensen

An unsupervised learning procedure based on maximizing the mutual information between the outputs of two networks receiving different but statistically dependent inputs is analyzed (Becker and Hinton, Nature, 355, 92, 161). For a generic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Urbanczik

The concepts of conditional mutual information (CMI) and normalized conditional mutual information (NCMI) are introduced to measure the concentration and separation performance of a classification deep neural network (DNN) in the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 En-Hui Yang , Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Linfeng Ye , Renhao Tan , Beverly Yang

This paper demonstrates dynamic hyper-parameter setting, for deep neural network training, using Mutual Information (MI). The specific hyper-parameter studied in this paper is the learning rate. MI between the output layer and true outcomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Shrihari Vasudevan

The ability to train randomly initialised deep neural networks is known to depend strongly on the variance of the weight matrices and biases as well as the choice of nonlinear activation. Here we complement the existing geometric analysis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jared Tanner , Giuseppe Ughi

Recently, the importance of analysing data and collecting valuable insight efficiently has been increasing in various fields. Estimating mutual information (MI) plays a critical role to investigate the relationship among multiple random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Yota Maeda , Hideaki Kawaguchi , Hiroyuki Tezuka

Mutual Information (MI) is an useful tool for the recognition of mutual dependence berween data sets. Differen methods for the estimation of MI have been developed when both data sets are discrete or when both data sets are continuous. The…

Applications · Statistics 2017-08-30 Miguel A. Ré , Guillermo G. Aguirre Varela

Understanding dependencies between variables is critical for interpretability and efficient generation in masked diffusion models (MDMs), yet these models primarily expose marginal conditional distributions and do not explicitly represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Jai Sharma , Yifan Wang , Bryan Li

Quantifying the dependence between high-dimensional random variables is central to statistical learning and inference. Two classical methods are canonical correlation analysis (CCA), which identifies maximally correlated projected versions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Dor Tsur , Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald

Recent contrastive representation learning methods rely on estimating mutual information (MI) between multiple views of an underlying context. E.g., we can derive multiple views of a given image by applying data augmentation, or we can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Alessandro Sordoni , Nouha Dziri , Hannes Schulz , Geoff Gordon , Phil Bachman , Remi Tachet

Standard decoding approaches rely on model-based channel estimation methods to compensate for varying channel effects, which degrade in performance whenever there is a model mismatch. Recently proposed Deep learning based neural decoders…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-07 Yihan Jiang , Hyeji Kim , Himanshu Asnani , Sreeram Kannan

Several recent works in communication systems have proposed to leverage the power of neural networks in the design of encoders and decoders. In this approach, these blocks can be tailored to maximize the transmission rate based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Sina Molavipour , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

We propose a new method for training iterative collective classifiers for labeling nodes in network data. The iterative classification algorithm (ICA) is a canonical method for incorporating relational information into classification. Yet,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Shuangfei Fan , Bert Huang

This article proposes a new method to estimate an existing mutual information based dependence measure using histogram density estimates. Finding a suitable bin length for histogram is an open problem. We propose a new way of computing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Namita Jain , C. A. Murthy

Automatic Modulation Classification (AMC) is an essential technology that is widely applied into various communications scenarios. In recent years, many Machine Learning and Deep-Learning methods have been introduced into AMC, and a lot of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-31 N. Ussipov , S. Akhtanov , Z. Zhanabaev , D. Turlykozhayeva , B. Karibayev , T. Namazbayev , D. Almen , A. Akhmetali , X. Tang

We address the practical problems of estimating the information relations that characterize large networks. Building on methods developed for analysis of the neural code, we show that reliable estimates of mutual information can be obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Noam Slonim , Gurinder S. Atwal , Gasper Tkacik , William Bialek

As digital data transmission continues to scale, concerns about privacy grow increasingly urgent - yet privacy remains a socially constructed and ambiguously defined concept, lacking a universally accepted quantitative measure. This work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ikram Messadi , Giulia Cervia , Vincent Itier

Recently, a method called the Mutual Information Neural Estimator (MINE) that uses neural networks has been proposed to estimate mutual information and more generally the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between two distributions. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Kartik Ahuja

The presence of mutual information in the research of deep learning has grown significantly. It has been proven that mutual information can be a good objective function to build a robust deep learning model. Most of the researches utilize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Marshal Arijona Sinaga