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The Information Bottleneck (IB) is a conceptual method for extracting the most compact, yet informative, representation of a set of variables, with respect to the target. It generalizes the notion of minimal sufficient statistics from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Amichai Painsky , Naftali Tishby

Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of specific training data from a model, a need driven by privacy regulations and robustness concerns. Existing approaches typically modify model parameters, but such updates can be unstable,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Antonio Almudévar , Alfonso Ortega

Variational dimensionality reduction methods are widely used for their accuracy, generative capabilities, and robustness. We introduce a unifying framework that generalizes both such as traditional and state-of-the-art methods. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Eslam Abdelaleem , Ilya Nemenman , K. Michael Martini

The fruits of science are relationships made comprehensible, often by way of approximation. While deep learning is an extremely powerful way to find relationships in data, its use in science has been hindered by the difficulty of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Kieran A. Murphy , Dani S. Bassett

Inference capabilities of machine learning (ML) systems skyrocketed in recent years, now playing a pivotal role in various aspect of society. The goal in statistical learning is to use data to obtain simple algorithms for predicting a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ziv Goldfeld , Yury Polyanskiy

We consider learning representations (features) in the setting in which we have access to multiple unlabeled views of the data for learning while only one view is available for downstream tasks. Previous work on this problem has proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Weiran Wang , Raman Arora , Karen Livescu , Jeff Bilmes

Self-supervised learning aims to learn representation that can be effectively generalized to downstream tasks. Many self-supervised approaches regard two views of an image as both the input and the self-supervised signals, assuming that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Liangjian Wen , Xiasi Wang , Jianzhuang Liu , Zenglin Xu

In recent several years, the information bottleneck (IB) principle provides an information-theoretic framework for deep multi-view clustering (MVC) by compressing multi-view observations while preserving the relevant information of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xiaoqiang Yan , Zhixiang Jin , Fengshou Han , Yangdong Ye

Bayesian Inference and Information Bottleneck are the two most popular objectives for neural networks, but they can be optimised only via a variational lower bound: the Variational Information Bottleneck (VIB). In this manuscript we show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Vincenzo Crescimanna , Bruce Graham

We give an algorithm that learns a representation of data through compression. The algorithm 1) predicts bits sequentially from those previously seen and 2) has a structure and a number of computations similar to an autoencoder. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-05 Karol Gregor , Yann LeCun

In this paper, we investigate the problem of learning disentangled representations. Given a pair of images sharing some attributes, we aim to create a low-dimensional representation which is split into two parts: a shared representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-10 Eduardo Hugo Sanchez , Mathieu Serrurier , Mathias Ortner

Split learning is a privacy-preserving distributed learning paradigm in which an ML model (e.g., a neural network) is split into two parts (i.e., an encoder and a decoder). The encoder shares so-called latent representation, rather than raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Omar Alhussein , Moshi Wei , Arashmid Akhavain

The Information Bottleneck (IB) method is an information theoretical framework to design a parsimonious and tunable feature-extraction mechanism, such that the extracted features are maximally relevant to a specific learning or inference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-17 Francesco Binucci , Paolo Banelli , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Sergio Barbarossa

The Information Bottleneck (IB) principle has emerged as a promising approach for enhancing the generalization, robustness, and interpretability of deep neural networks, demonstrating efficacy across image segmentation, document clustering,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Hanzhe Yang , Youlong Wu , Dingzhu Wen , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

The information bottleneck (IB) approach is popular to improve the generalization, robustness and explainability of deep neural networks. Essentially, it aims to find a minimum sufficient representation $\mathbf{t}$ by striking a trade-off…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shujian Yu , Xi Yu , Sigurd Løkse , Robert Jenssen , Jose C. Principe

Deep learning research aims at discovering learning algorithms that discover multiple levels of distributed representations, with higher levels representing more abstract concepts. Although the study of deep learning has already led to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-10 Yoshua Bengio

We present the information-ordered bottleneck (IOB), a neural layer designed to adaptively compress data into latent variables ordered by likelihood maximization. Without retraining, IOB nodes can be truncated at any bottleneck width,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Matthew Ho , Xiaosheng Zhao , Benjamin Wandelt

Deep neural networks excel in supervised learning tasks but are constrained by the need for extensive labeled data. Self-supervised learning emerges as a promising alternative, allowing models to learn without explicit labels. Information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Yann LeCun

Deep learning has become the most powerful machine learning tool in the last decade. However, how to efficiently train deep neural networks remains to be thoroughly solved. The widely used minibatch stochastic gradient descent (SGD) still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Xinyu Peng , Jiawei Zhang , Fei-Yue Wang , Li Li

One of the pursued objectives of deep learning is to provide tools that learn abstract representations of reality from the observation of multiple contextual situations. More precisely, one wishes to extract disentangled representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pierre Colombo , Nathan Noiry , Guillaume Staerman , Pablo Piantanida