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By "intelligently" fusing the complementary information across different views, multi-view learning is able to improve the performance of classification tasks. In this work, we extend the information bottleneck principle to a supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Qi Zhang , Shujian Yu , Jingmin Xin , Badong Chen

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

Information Theory (IT) has been used in Machine Learning (ML) from early days of this field. In the last decade, advances in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have led to surprising improvements in many applications of ML. The result has been a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Hassan Hafez-Kolahi , Shohreh Kasaei

Adversarial learning methods have been proposed for a wide range of applications, but the training of adversarial models can be notoriously unstable. Effectively balancing the performance of the generator and discriminator is critical,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Xue Bin Peng , Angjoo Kanazawa , Sam Toyer , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine

Although multi-view multi-label learning has been extensively studied, research on the dual-missing scenario, where both views and labels are incomplete, remains largely unexplored. Existing methods mainly rely on contrastive learning or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xu Yan , Jun Yin , Shiliang Sun , Minghua Wan

Multi-view learning often faces challenges in effectively leveraging images captured from different angles and locations. This challenge is particularly pronounced when addressing inconsistencies and uncertainties between views. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jiwoong Yang , Haejun Chung , Ikbeom Jang

Information bottleneck (IB) principle [1] has become an important element in information-theoretic analysis of deep models. Many state-of-the-art generative models of both Variational Autoencoder (VAE) [2; 3] and Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Slava Voloshynovskiy , Mouad Kondah , Shideh Rezaeifar , Olga Taran , Taras Holotyak , Danilo Jimenez Rezende

The fruits of science are relationships made comprehensible, often by way of approximation. While deep learning is an extremely powerful way to find relationships in data, its use in science has been hindered by the difficulty of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Kieran A. Murphy , Dani S. Bassett

Despite widespread adoption, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) suffer performance degradation when encountering unfamiliar queries under distribution shifts. Existing methods to improve MLLM generalization typically require either…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Changdae Oh , Jiatong Li , Shawn Im , Sharon Li

We propose a novel information bottleneck (IB) method named Drop-Bottleneck, which discretely drops features that are irrelevant to the target variable. Drop-Bottleneck not only enjoys a simple and tractable compression objective but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Jaekyeom Kim , Minjung Kim , Dongyeon Woo , Gunhee Kim

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

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

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

Bidirectional language models have better context understanding and perform better than unidirectional models on natural language understanding tasks, yet the theoretical reasons behind this advantage remain unclear. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Md Kowsher , Nusrat Jahan Prottasha , Shiyun Xu , Shetu Mohanto , Ozlem Garibay , Niloofar Yousefi , Chen Chen

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

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

The information bottleneck (IB) method is a feasible defense solution against adversarial attacks in deep learning. However, this method suffers from the spurious correlation, which leads to the limitation of its further improvement of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Huan Hua , Jun Yan , Xi Fang , Weiquan Huang , Huilin Yin , Wancheng Ge

In this paper, we explore the problem of deep multi-view subspace clustering framework from an information-theoretic point of view. We extend the traditional information bottleneck principle to learn common information among different views…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Shiye Wang , Changsheng Li , Yanming Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

In this theory paper, we investigate training deep neural networks (DNNs) for classification via minimizing the information bottleneck (IB) functional. We show that the resulting optimization problem suffers from two severe issues: First,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Rana Ali Amjad , Bernhard C. Geiger

The Information bottleneck (IB) method enables optimizing over the trade-off between compression of data and prediction accuracy of learned representations, and has successfully and robustly been applied to both supervised and unsupervised…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Teng-Hui Huang , Aly El Gamal