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While uncertainty estimation for graphs recently gained traction, most methods rely on homophily and deteriorate in heterophilic settings. We address this by analyzing message passing neural networks from an information-theoretic…

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We propose a new way to measure inequalities such as the glass ceiling effect in attributed networks. Existing measures typically rely solely on node degree distribution or degree assortativity, but our approach goes beyond these measures…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Rui Luo , Buddhika Nettasinghe , Vikram Krishnamurthy

This paper explores the applications and challenges of graph neural networks (GNNs) in processing complex graph data brought about by the rapid development of the Internet. Given the heterogeneity and redundancy problems that graph data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jianjun Wei , Yue Liu , Xin Huang , Xin Zhang , Wenyi Liu , Xu Yan

This paper considers derivation of $f$-divergence inequalities via the approach of functional domination. Bounds on an $f$-divergence based on one or several other $f$-divergences are introduced, dealing with pairs of probability measures…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Igal Sason , Sergio Verdú

Entropic uncertainty relations are interesting in their own rights as well as for a lot of applications. Keeping this in mind, we try to make the corresponding inequalities as tight as possible. The use of parametrized entropies also allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Alexey E. Rastegin

In this note, we present an information diffusion inequality derived from an elementary argument, which gives rise to a very general Fano-type inequality. The latter unifies and generalizes the distance-based Fano inequality and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Gábor Braun , Sebastian Pokutta

Information is a valuable asset for agents in socio-economic systems, a significant part of the information being entailed into the very network of connections between agents. The different interlinkages patterns that agents establish may,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Paolo Barucca , Guido Caldarelli , Tiziano Squartini

We study the problem of supervised linear dimensionality reduction, taking an information-theoretic viewpoint. The linear projection matrix is designed by maximizing the mutual information between the projected signal and the class label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Minhua Chen , William Carson , Miguel Rodrigues , Robert Calderbank , Lawrence Carin

The Cheeger inequality for undirected graphs, which relates the conductance of an undirected graph and the second smallest eigenvalue of its normalized Laplacian, is a cornerstone of spectral graph theory. The Cheeger inequality has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Yuichi Yoshida

We consider a matrix completion problem that exploits social or item similarity graphs as side information. We develop a universal, parameter-free, and computationally efficient algorithm that starts with hierarchical graph clustering and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-06 Adel Elmahdy , Junhyung Ahn , Changho Suh , Soheil Mohajer

We introduce a two-parameter family of discrepancy measures, termed \emph{$(G,f)$-divergences}, obtained by applying a non-decreasing function $G$ to an $f$-divergence $D_f$. Building on Csisz\'ar's formulation of mutual $f$-information, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Hamidreza Abin , Mahdi Zinati , Amin Gohari , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian

A class of information inequalities, called Shannon-type inequalities (STIs), can be proven via a computer software called ITIP. In previous work, we have shown how this technique can be utilized to Fourier-Motzkin elimination algorithm for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Ido B. Gattegno , Haim H. Permuter

One-shot information theory entertains a plethora of entropic quantities, such as the smooth max-divergence, hypothesis testing divergence and information spectrum divergence, that characterize various operational tasks and are used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Anurag Anshu , Mario Berta , Rahul Jain , Marco Tomamichel

We survey and introduce concepts and tools located at the intersection of information theory and network biology. We show that Shannon's information entropy, compressibility and algorithmic complexity quantify different local and global…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-14 Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Jesper Tegnér

Information theory plays an indispensable role in the development of algorithm-independent impossibility results, both for communication problems and for seemingly distinct areas such as statistics and machine learning. While numerous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

We establish a precise mathematical equivalence between witness-based similarity systems (REWA) and Shannon's information theory. We prove that witness overlap is mutual information, that REWA bit complexity bounds arise from channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nikit Phadke

Graph serves as a powerful tool for modeling data that has an underlying structure in non-Euclidean space, by encoding relations as edges and entities as nodes. Despite developments in learning from graph-structured data over the years, one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Tianxiang Zhao , Dongsheng Luo , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

We study adversarial learning when the target distribution factorizes according to a known Bayesian network. For interpolative divergences, including $(f,\Gamma)$-divergences, we prove a new infimal subadditivity principle showing that,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-03 Panagiota Birmpa , Eric Joseph Hall

Shannon's channel coding theorem characterizes the maximal rate of information that can be reliably transmitted over a communication channel when optimal encoding and decoding strategies are used. In many scenarios, however, practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jonathan Scarlett , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas , Anelia Somekh-Baruch , Alfonso Martinez

In this paper, we take a unified approach for network information theory and prove a coding theorem, which can recover most of the achievability results in network information theory that are based on random coding. The final single-letter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Si-Hyeon Lee , Sae-Young Chung