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Combining the Information Bottleneck model with deep learning by replacing mutual information terms with deep neural nets has proved successful in areas ranging from generative modelling to interpreting deep neural networks. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Aleksander Wieczorek , Volker Roth

The information bottleneck (IB) method is a technique designed to extract meaningful information related to one random variable from another random variable, and has found extensive applications in machine learning problems. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Sicheng Xu , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang

In this work, we generalize the information bottleneck (IB) approach to the multi-view learning context. The exponentially growing complexity of the optimal representation motivates the development of two novel formulations with more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Teng-Hui Huang , Aly El Gamal , Hesham El Gamal

We introduce Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM), a learning paradigm to estimate invariant correlations across multiple training distributions. To achieve this goal, IRM learns a data representation such that the optimal classifier, on top…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-31 Martin Arjovsky , Léon Bottou , Ishaan Gulrajani , David Lopez-Paz

In this paper, we propose a novel method, IB-RAR, which uses Information Bottleneck (IB) to strengthen adversarial robustness for both adversarial training and non-adversarial-trained methods. We first use the IB theory to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiaoyun Xu , Guilherme Perin , Stjepan Picek

Information Bottleneck (IB) is widely used, but in deep learning, it is usually implemented through tractable surrogates, such as variational bounds or neural mutual information (MI) estimators, rather than directly controlling the MI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Weiqi Wang , Zhiyi Tian , Chenhan Zhang , Shui Yu

The Information Bottleneck (IB) objective uses information theory to formulate a task-performance versus robustness trade-off. It has been successfully applied in the standard discriminative classification setting. We pose the question…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Lynton Ardizzone , Radek Mackowiak , Carsten Rother , Ullrich Köthe

Deep learning models excel in computer vision tasks but often fail to generalize to out-of-distribution (OOD) domains. Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) aims to address OOD generalization by learning domain-invariant features. However, IRM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Yaoyao Zhu , Xiuding Cai , Yingkai Wang , Dong Miao , Zhongliang Fu , Xu Luo

The Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM) framework aims to learn invariant features from a set of environments for solving the out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization problem. The underlying assumption is that the causal components of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Moulik Choraria , Ibtihal Ferwana , Ankur Mani , Lav R. Varshney

Information bottleneck (IB) is a method for extracting information from one random variable $X$ that is relevant for predicting another random variable $Y$. To do so, IB identifies an intermediate "bottleneck" variable $T$ that has low…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-22 Artemy Kolchinsky , Brendan D. Tracey , Steven Van Kuyk

The information bottleneck (IB) method offers an attractive framework for understanding representation learning, however its applications are often limited by its computational intractability. Analytical characterization of the IB method is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn , David J. Schwab

Benefiting from large-scale pretrained vision language models (VLMs), the performance of visual question answering (VQA) has approached human oracles. However, finetuning such models on limited data often suffers from overfitting and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jingjing Jiang , Ziyi Liu , Nanning Zheng

Empirical risk minimization can lead to poor generalization behavior on unseen environments if the learned model does not capture invariant feature representations. Invariant risk minimization (IRM) is a recent proposal for discovering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Francesco Alesiani , Shujian Yu , Mathias Niepert

The invariance principle from causality is at the heart of notable approaches such as invariant risk minimization (IRM) that seek to address out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization failures. Despite the promising theory, invariance…

Invariance-principle-based methods such as Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM), have recently emerged as promising approaches for Domain Generalization (DG). Despite promising theory, such approaches fail in common classification tasks due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Thuan Nguyen , Boyang Lyu , Prakash Ishwar , Matthias Scheutz , Shuchin Aeron

Learning effective joint embedding for cross-modal data has always been a focus in the field of multimodal machine learning. We argue that during multimodal fusion, the generated multimodal embedding may be redundant, and the discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sijie Mai , Ying Zeng , Haifeng Hu

Empowered by semantic-rich content information, multimedia recommendation has emerged as a potent personalized technique. Current endeavors center around harnessing multimedia content to refine item representation or uncovering latent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yonghui Yang , Le Wu , Zhuangzhuang He , Zhengwei Wu , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Machine learning models often generalize poorly to out-of-distribution (OOD) data as a result of relying on features that are spuriously correlated with the label during training. Recently, the technique of Invariant Risk Minimization (IRM)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Dongsung Huh , Avinash Baidya

The information bottleneck (IB) principle has been adopted to explain deep learning in terms of information compression and prediction, which are balanced by a trade-off hyperparameter. How to optimize the IB principle for better robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Penglong Zhai , Shihua Zhang

We view the Information Bottleneck Principle (IBP: Tishby et al., 1999; Schwartz-Ziv and Tishby, 2017) and Predictive Information Bottleneck Principle (PIBP: Still et al., 2007; Alemi, 2019) as special cases of a family of general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Sayandev Mukherjee