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To improve how neural networks function it is crucial to understand their learning process. The information bottleneck theory of deep learning proposes that neural networks achieve good generalization by compressing their representations to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Ivan Chelombiev , Conor Houghton , Cian O'Donnell

In the realm of neural network models, the perpetual challenge remains in retaining task-relevant information while effectively discarding redundant data during propagation. In this paper, we introduce IB-AdCSCNet, a deep learning model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 He Zou , Meng'en Qin , Yu Song , Xiaohui Yang

In this paper, we introduce the application of Information Bottleneck as a method to investigate properties of questionnaires developed for the study of motivational profiles based on self-determination theory. Founded on information…

Applications · Statistics 2018-06-06 Daniela M L Barbato , Jean-Jacques De Groote

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

Advances in the field of inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) have led to sophisticated inference frameworks that relax the original modeling assumption of observing an agent behavior that reflects only a single intention. Instead of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Adrian Šošić , Elmar Rueckert , Jan Peters , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Heinz Koeppl

Reinforcement learning agents that operate in diverse and complex environments can benefit from the structured decomposition of their behavior. Often, this is addressed in the context of hierarchical reinforcement learning, where the aim is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Anirudh Goyal , Shagun Sodhani , Jonathan Binas , Xue Bin Peng , Sergey Levine , Yoshua Bengio

Reinforcement learning is a machine learning approach based on behavioral psychology. It is focused on learning agents that can acquire knowledge and learn to carry out new tasks by interacting with the environment. However, a problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Hugo Muñoz , Ernesto Portugal , Angel Ayala , Bruno Fernandes , Francisco Cruz

Our goal is to develop a principled and general algorithmic framework for task-driven estimation and control for robotic systems. State-of-the-art approaches for controlling robotic systems typically rely heavily on accurately estimating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-08 Vincent Pacelli , Anirudha Majumdar

In cooperation, the workers must know how co-workers behave. However, an agent's policy, which is embedded in a statistical machine learning model, is hard to understand, and requires much time and knowledge to comprehend. Therefore, it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Yosuke Fukuchi , Masahiko Osawa , Hiroshi Yamakawa , Michita Imai

Multi-agent learning is a promising method to simulate aggregate competitive behaviour in finance. Learning expert agents' reward functions through their external demonstrations is hence particularly relevant for subsequent design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Jacobo Roa-Vicens , Cyrine Chtourou , Angelos Filos , Francisco Rullan , Yarin Gal , Ricardo Silva

Despite the great development of multirobot technologies, efficiently and collaboratively exploring an unknown environment is still a big challenge. In this paper, we propose AIM-Mapping, a Asymmetric InforMation Enhanced Mapping framework.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jiyu Cheng , Junhui Fan , Xiaolei Li , Paul L. Rosin , Yibin Li , Wei Zhang

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

Natural languages have been argued to evolve under pressure to efficiently compress meanings into words by optimizing the Information Bottleneck (IB) complexity-accuracy tradeoff. However, the underlying social dynamics that could drive the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nathaniel Imel , Richard Futrell , Michael Franke , Noga Zaslavsky

Learning to coordinate many agents in partially observable and highly dynamic environments requires both informative representations and data-efficient training. To address this challenge, we present a novel model-based multi-agent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhizun Wang , David Meger

Concept bottleneck models (CBMs) are interpretable neural networks that first predict labels for human-interpretable concepts relevant to the prediction task, and then predict the final label based on the concept label predictions. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Kushal Chauhan , Rishabh Tiwari , Jan Freyberg , Pradeep Shenoy , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham

The problem of distributed representation learning is one in which multiple sources of information $X_1,\ldots,X_K$ are processed separately so as to learn as much information as possible about some ground truth $Y$. We investigate this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-02 Inaki Estella Aguerri , Abdellatif Zaidi

In this paper, we propose a new mutual information framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning to enable multiple agents to learn coordinated behaviors by regularizing the accumulated return with the simultaneous mutual information…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Woojun Kim , Whiyoung Jung , Myungsik Cho , Youngchul Sung

The Information bottleneck method is an unsupervised non-parametric data organization technique. Given a joint distribution P(A,B), this method constructs a new variable T that extracts partitions, or clusters, over the values of A that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Nir Friedman , Ori Mosenzon , Noam Slonim , Naftali Tishby

We present an information-theoretic framework to learn fixed-dimensional embeddings for tasks in reinforcement learning. We leverage the idea that two tasks are similar if observing an agent's performance on one task reduces our uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Mridul Mahajan , Georgios Tzannetos , Goran Radanovic , Adish Singla

Nowadays, cooperative multi-agent systems are used to learn how to achieve goals in large-scale dynamic environments. However, learning in these environments is challenging: from the effect of search space size on learning time to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mahnoosh Mahdavimoghaddam , Amin Nikanjam , Monireh Abdoos