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The estimation of mutual information (MI) or conditional mutual information (CMI) from a set of samples is a long-standing problem. A recent line of work in this area has leveraged the approximation power of artificial neural networks and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Sina Molavipour , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

Several recent works in communication systems have proposed to leverage the power of neural networks in the design of encoders and decoders. In this approach, these blocks can be tailored to maximize the transmission rate based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Sina Molavipour , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

The development of optimal and efficient machine learning-based communication systems is likely to be a key enabler of beyond 5G communication technologies. In this direction, physical layer design has been recently reformulated under a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nunzio A. Letizia , Andrea M. Tonello

This work develops a new method for estimating and optimizing the directed information rate between two jointly stationary and ergodic stochastic processes. Building upon recent advances in machine learning, we propose a recurrent neural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dor Tsur , Ziv Aharoni , Ziv Goldfeld , Haim Permuter

Deep learning based physical layer design, i.e., using dense neural networks as encoders and decoders, has received considerable interest recently. However, while such an approach is naturally training data-driven, actions of the wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Rick Fritschek , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard Wunder

Estimating mutual correlations between random variables or data streams is essential for intelligent behavior and decision-making. As a fundamental quantity for measuring statistical relationships, mutual information has been extensively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Zhengyang Hu , Song Kang , Qunsong Zeng , Kaibin Huang , Yanchao Yang

We introduce an information-theoretic quantity with similar properties to mutual information that can be estimated from data without making explicit assumptions on the underlying distribution. This quantity is based on a recently proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Oscar Skean , Jhoan Keider Hoyos Osorio , Austin J. Brockmeier , Luis Gonzalo Sanchez Giraldo

We study some of the most commonly used mutual information estimators, based on histograms of fixed or adaptive bin size, $k$-nearest neighbors and kernels, and focus on optimal selection of their free parameters. We examine the consistency…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-13 Angeliki Papana , Dimitris Kugiumtzis

Mutual Information (MI) plays an important role in representation learning. However, MI is unfortunately intractable in continuous and high-dimensional settings. Recent advances establish tractable and scalable MI estimators to discover…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-05 Liangjian Wen , Yiji Zhou , Lirong He , Mingyuan Zhou , Zenglin Xu

In recent years, deep neural network exhibits its powerful superiority on information discrimination in many computer vision applications. However, the capacity of deep neural network architecture is still a mystery to the researchers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aosen Wang , Hua Zhou , Wenyao Xu , Xin Chen

The task of infomin learning aims to learn a representation with high utility while being uninformative about a specified target, with the latter achieved by minimising the mutual information between the representation and the target. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yanzhi Chen , Weihao Sun , Yingzhen Li , Adrian Weller

In this paper we focus on the estimation of mutual information from finite samples $(\mathcal{X}\times\mathcal{Y})$. The main concern with estimations of mutual information is their robustness under the class of transformations for which it…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-02-04 Nicholas Carrara , Jesse Ernst

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence between two variables, yet accurate estimation from finite data remains notoriously difficult. No estimator is universally reliable, and common approaches fail in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-02 Eslam Abdelaleem , K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

In this paper, we revisit techniques for uncertainty estimation within deep neural networks and consolidate a suite of techniques to enhance their reliability. Our investigation reveals that an integrated application of diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Yuting Li , Yingyi Chen , Xuanlong Yu , Dexiong Chen , Xi Shen

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) enable atomistic simulations with near first-principles accuracy at substantially reduced computational cost, making them powerful tools for large-scale materials modeling. The accuracy of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-11 Yonatan Kurniawan , Mingjian Wen , Ellad B. Tadmor , Mark K. Transtrum

Estimation of information theoretic quantities such as mutual information and its conditional variant has drawn interest in recent times owing to their multifaceted applications. Newly proposed neural estimators for these quantities have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Arnab Bhattacharya , Sudipto Mukherjee , Prathosh AP , Sreeram Kannan , Himanshu Asnani

Deep neural networks (NNs) are powerful black box predictors that have recently achieved impressive performance on a wide spectrum of tasks. Quantifying predictive uncertainty in NNs is a challenging and yet unsolved problem. Bayesian NNs,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Alexander Pritzel , Charles Blundell

Estimating mutual information between continuous random variables is often intractable and extremely challenging for high-dimensional data. Recent progress has leveraged neural networks to optimize variational lower bounds on mutual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ruizhi Liao , Daniel Moyer , Polina Golland , William M. Wells

We propose a fully data-driven approach to designing mutual information (MI) estimators. Since any MI estimator is a function of the observed sample from two random variables, we parameterize this function with a neural network (MIST) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 German Gritsai , Megan Richards , Maxime Méloux , Kyunghyun Cho , Maxime Peyrard

In wireless communication systems, the accurate and reliable evaluation of channel capacity is believed to be a fundamental and critical issue for terminals. However, with the rapid development of wireless technology, large-scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Dandan Jiang , Rui Wang , Jiang Xue