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Information velocity (IV) is a recently proposed notion to capture the speed of reliable information dissemination over a large-scale network. It is the speed at which reliable end-to-end communication over $k$ hops can be achieved within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kai-Chun Chen , I-Hsiang Wang

The Information Bottleneck (IB) framework is a general characterization of optimal representations obtained using a principled approach for balancing accuracy and complexity. Here we present a new framework, the Dual Information Bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Zoe Piran , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Naftali Tishby

Deep neural networks suffer from poor generalization to unseen environments when the underlying data distribution is different from that in the training set. By learning minimum sufficient representations from training data, the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Francesco Alesiani , Shujian Yu , Xi Yu

A network consisting of $n$ source-destination pairs and $m$ relays is considered. Focusing on the large system limit (large $n$), the throughput scaling laws of two-hop relaying protocols are studied for Rayleigh fading channels. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-29 Shengshan Cui , Alexander M. Haimovich , Oren Somekh , H. Vincent Poor

The Information Bottleneck (IB) method (\cite{tishby2000information}) provides an insightful and principled approach for balancing compression and prediction for representation learning. The IB objective $I(X;Z)-\beta I(Y;Z)$ employs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Tailin Wu , Ian Fischer , Isaac L. Chuang , Max Tegmark

In this paper, a two-hop network in which information is transmitted from a source via a relay to a destination is considered. It is assumed that the channels are static fading with additive white Gaussian noise. All nodes are equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-18 Vahid Pourahmadi , Alireza Bayesteh , Amir K. Khandani

The information bottleneck (IB) method seeks a compressed representation of data that preserves information relevant to a target variable for prediction while discarding irrelevant information from the original data. In its classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Akira Kamatsuka , Takahiro Yoshida

The information bottleneck (IB) method is a technique for extracting information that is relevant for predicting the target random variable from the source random variable, which is typically implemented by optimizing the IB Lagrangian that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ziqi Pan , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

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

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has recently achieved remarkable success in robotic control. However, most works in RL operate in simulated environments where privileged knowledge (e.g., dynamics, surroundings, terrains) is readily available.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haoran He , Peilin Wu , Chenjia Bai , Hang Lai , Lingxiao Wang , Ling Pan , Xiaolin Hu , Weinan Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the capacity of known interference channel, where the receiver knows the interference data but not the channel gain of the interference data. We first derive a tight upper bound for the capacity of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-15 Shengli Zhang , Soung-Chang Liew , Jinyuan Chen

The information bottleneck (IB) problem tackles the issue of obtaining relevant compressed representations $T$ of some random variable $X$ for the task of predicting $Y$. It is defined as a constrained optimization problem which maximizes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-19 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Ragnar Thobaben , Mikael Skoglund

We consider the problem of minimizing upper bounds and maximizing lower bounds on information rates of stationary and ergodic discrete-time channels with memory. The channels we consider can have a finite number of states, such as partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Parastoo Sadeghi , Pascal O. Vontobel , Ramtin Shams

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an important subject in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Its applications to computer vision, signal processing, and speech recognition are ubiquitous. Although this subject has attracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Weizhu Qian , Bowei Chen , Yichao Zhang , Guanghui Wen , Franck Gechter

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 investigate the transmission of a secret message from Alice to Bob in the presence of an eavesdropper (Eve) and many of decode-and-forward relay nodes. Each link comprises a set of parallel channels, modeling for example an orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Linda Senigagliesi , Marco Baldi , Stefano Tomasin

With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, next-generation wireless communication network is facing unprecedented challenge. Semantic communication has become a novel solution to address such challenges, with enhancing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Zihe Zhao , Chunyue Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable progress in reasoning capabilities through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). By leveraging simple rule-based rewards, RL effectively incentivizes LLMs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Shiye Lei , Zhihao Cheng , Kai Jia , Dacheng Tao

This paper investigates the maximum coding rate at which data can be transmitted over a noncoherent, multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) Rayleigh block-fading channel using an error-correcting code of a given blocklength with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Chao Qi , Tobias Koch

We consider the impact of incomplete information on incentives for node cooperation in parallel relay networks with one source node, one destination node, and multiple relay nodes. All nodes are selfish and strategic, interested in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-24 Hongda Xiao , Edmund M. Yeh
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