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The emergence of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has greatly boosted the progress of graph learning. However, two disturbing factors, noise and redundancy in graph data, and lack of interpretation for prediction results, impede further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Junchi Yu , Tingyang Xu , Yu Rong , Yatao Bian , Junzhou Huang , Ran He

We introduce the matrix-based Renyi's $\alpha$-order entropy functional to parameterize Tishby et al. information bottleneck (IB) principle with a neural network. We term our methodology Deep Deterministic Information Bottleneck (DIB), as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Xi Yu , Shujian Yu , Jose C. Principe

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant success in various applications with large-scale and balanced data. However, data in real-world visual recognition are usually long-tailed, bringing challenges to efficient training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yifan Lan , Xin Cai , Jun Cheng , Shan Tan

The information bottleneck principle is an elegant and useful approach to representation learning. In this paper, we investigate the problem of representation learning in the context of reinforcement learning using the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Pei Yingjun , Hou Xinwen

The usage of deep learning is being escalated in many applications. Due to its outstanding performance, it is being used in a variety of security and privacy-sensitive areas in addition to conventional applications. One of the key aspects…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zhaoxi Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Xufei Zheng , Bilal Hussain Abbasi , Shengshan Hu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are analyzed via the theoretical framework of the information bottleneck (IB) principle. We first show that any DNN can be quantified by the mutual information between the layers and the input and output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Naftali Tishby , Noga Zaslavsky

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in modeling graph-structured data. However, recent works show that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks which can fool the GNN model to make desired predictions of the attacker.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Enyan Dai , Limeng Cui , Zhengyang Wang , Xianfeng Tang , Yinghan Wang , Monica Cheng , Bing Yin , Suhang Wang

Deep learning-based discriminative classifiers, despite their remarkable success, remain vulnerable to adversarial examples that can mislead model predictions. While adversarial training can enhance robustness, it fails to address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Chunheng Zhao , Pierluigi Pisu , Gurcan Comert , Negash Begashaw , Varghese Vaidyan , Nina Christine Hubig

The Information Bottleneck (IB) principle offers an information-theoretic framework for analyzing the training process of deep neural networks (DNNs). Its essence lies in tracking the dynamics of two mutual information (MI) values: between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Ivan Butakov , Alexander Tolmachev , Sofia Malanchuk , Anna Neopryatnaya , Alexey Frolov , Kirill Andreev

Recent studies have revealed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Most existing robust graph learning methods measure model robustness based on label information, rendering them infeasible when label information is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jihong Wang , Minnan Luo , Jundong Li , Ziqi Liu , Jun Zhou , Qinghua Zheng

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 seeks a compressed representation of data that preserves information relevant to a target variable for prediction while discarding irrelevant information from the original data. In its classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Akira Kamatsuka , Takahiro Yoshida

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

The inference of causal relationships using observational data from partially observed multivariate systems with hidden variables is a fundamental question in many scientific domains. Methods extracting causal information from conditional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-13 Daniel Chicharro , Michel Besserve , Stefano Panzeri

Understanding how backdoor data influences neural network training dynamics remains a complex and underexplored challenge. In this paper, we present a rigorous analysis of the impact of backdoor data on the learning process, with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinyu Liu , Xu Zhang , Can Chen , Ren Wang

In many applications, it is desirable to extract only the relevant aspects of data. A principled way to do this is the information bottleneck (IB) method, where one seeks a code that maximizes information about a 'relevance' variable, Y,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-27 Matthew Chalk , Olivier Marre , Gasper Tkacik

Effectively leveraging multimodal data such as various images, laboratory tests and clinical information is gaining traction in a variety of AI-based medical diagnosis and prognosis tasks. Most existing multi-modal techniques only focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Yingying Fang , Shuang Wu , Sheng Zhang , Chaoyan Huang , Tieyong Zeng , Xiaodan Xing , Simon Walsh , Guang Yang

Although deep neural networks have been immensely successful, there is no comprehensive theoretical understanding of how they work or are structured. As a result, deep networks are often seen as black boxes with unclear interpretations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ravid Shwartz-Ziv

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

Representation learning of graph-structured data is challenging because both graph structure and node features carry important information. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) provide an expressive way to fuse information from network structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Tailin Wu , Hongyu Ren , Pan Li , Jure Leskovec