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Probabilistic representation spaces convey information about a dataset and are shaped by factors such as the training data, network architecture, and loss function. Comparing the information content of such spaces is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Kieran A. Murphy , Sam Dillavou , Dani S. Bassett

Large annotated datasets are crucial for the success of deep neural networks, but labeling data can be prohibitively expensive in domains such as medical imaging. This work tackles the subset selection problem: selecting a small set of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Noga Bar , Raja Giryes

Estimating the uncertainty in deep neural network predictions is crucial for many real-world applications. A common approach to model uncertainty is to choose a parametric distribution and fit the data to it using maximum likelihood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Ali Harakeh , Jordan Hu , Naiqing Guan , Steven L. Waslander , Liam Paull

Sample selection improves the efficiency and effectiveness of machine learning models by providing informative and representative samples. Typically, samples can be modeled as a sample graph, where nodes are samples and edges represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianchi Xie , Jiangning Zhu , Guozu Ma , Minzhi Lin , Wei Chen , Weikai Yang , Shixia Liu

Ranked set sampling is a sampling design which has a wide range of applications in industrial statistics, and environmental and ecological studies, etc.. It is well known that ranked set samples provide more Fisher information than simple…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-21 Mohammad Jafari Jozani , Jafar Ahmadi

How can we find a general way to choose the most suitable samples for training a classifier? Even with very limited prior information? Active learning, which can be regarded as an iterative optimization procedure, plays a key role to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Bo Du , Zengmao Wang , Lefei Zhang , Liangpei Zhang , Wei Liu , Jialie Shen , Dacheng Tao

We introduce a pruning algorithm that provably sparsifies the parameters of a trained model in a way that approximately preserves the model's predictive accuracy. Our algorithm uses a small batch of input points to construct a data-informed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Cenk Baykal , Lucas Liebenwein , Igor Gilitschenski , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

Estimating the relative importance of each sample in a training set has important practical and theoretical value, such as in importance sampling or curriculum learning. This kind of focus on individual samples invokes the concept of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Seung-Geon Lee , Jaedeok Kim , Hyun-Joo Jung , Yoonsuck Choe

Given two channels that convey information about the same random variable, we introduce two measures of the unique information of one channel with respect to the other. The two quantities are based on the notion of generalized weighted Le…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Pradeep Kr. Banerjee , Eckehard Olbrich , Jürgen Jost , Johannes Rauh

We argue that some of the computational complexity associated with estimation of stochastic attribute-value grammars can be reduced by training upon an informative subset of the full training set. Results using the parsed Wall Street…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Miles Osborne

This study revisits label smoothing via a form of information bottleneck. Under the assumption of sufficient model flexibility and no conflicting labels for the same input, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sota Kudo

The Uniform Information Density (UID) hypothesis proposes that effective communication is achieved by maintaining a stable flow of information. In this work, we revisit this principle in the context of Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Minju Gwak , Guijin Son , Jaehyung Kim

We present a new approach and a novel architecture, termed WSNet, for learning compact and efficient deep neural networks. Existing approaches conventionally learn full model parameters independently and then compress them via ad hoc…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Xiaojie Jin , Yingzhen Yang , Ning Xu , Jianchao Yang , Nebojsa Jojic , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Information theory is a practical and theoretical framework developed for the study of communication over noisy channels. Its probabilistic basis and capacity to relate statistical structure to function make it ideally suited for studying…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-01-09 Simon R. Schultz , Robin A. A. Ince , Stefano Panzeri

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

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-06-26 Marco Zaffalon , Marcus Hutter

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

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Marco Zaffalon , Marcus Hutter

The performance of multi-domain image-to-image translation has been significantly improved by recent progress in deep generative models. Existing approaches can use a unified model to achieve translations between all the visual domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jie Cao , Huaibo Huang , Yi Li , Ran He , Zhenan Sun

Traditional machine learning relies on explicit models and domain assumptions, limiting flexibility and interpretability. We introduce a model-free framework using surprisal (information theoretic uncertainty) to directly analyze and…

Smooth entropies are a tool for quantifying resource trade-offs in (quantum) information theory and cryptography. In typical bi- and multi-partite problems, however, some of the sub-systems are often left unchanged and this is not reflected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-20 Anurag Anshu , Mario Berta , Rahul Jain , Marco Tomamichel

Starting with a set of weighted items, we want to create a generic sample of a certain size that we can later use to estimate the total weight of arbitrary subsets. For this purpose, we propose priority sampling which tested on Internet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Nick Duffield , Carsten Lund , Mikkel Thorup