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Federated learning (FL) is a widely adopted privacy-preserving distributed learning framework, yet its generalization performance remains less explored compared to centralized learning. In FL, the generalization error consists of two…

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The scarcity of labeled data often impedes the application of deep learning to the segmentation of medical images. Semi-supervised learning seeks to overcome this limitation by exploiting unlabeled examples in the learning process. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Jizong Peng , Marco Pedersoli , Christian Desrosiers

Mutual information (MI) is an information-theoretic measure of dependency between two random variables. Several methods to estimate MI, from samples of two random variables with unknown underlying probability distributions have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 P Aditya Sreekar , Ujjwal Tiwari , Anoop Namboodiri

Clustering under pairwise constraints is an important knowledge discovery tool that enables the learning of appropriate kernels or distance metrics to improve clustering performance. These pairwise constraints, which come in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Benedikt Boecking , Vincent Jeanselme , Artur Dubrawski

We introduce resampled mutual information (ResMI), a novel measure of clustering similarity that combines insights from information theoretic and pair counting approaches to clustering and community detection. Similar to chance-corrected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Cheaheon Lim

Text-to-image generation and image captioning are recently emerged as a new experimental paradigm to assess machine intelligence. They predict continuous quantity accompanied by their sampling techniques in the generation, making evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jin-Hwa Kim , Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Kang Min Yoo , Sang-Woo Lee

In this work we present a new method for the estimation of Mutual Information (MI) between random variables. Our approach is based on an original interpretation of the Girsanov theorem, which allows us to use score-based diffusion models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Giulio Franzese , Mustapha Bounoua , Pietro Michiardi

Mutual Information (MI) is a powerful statistical measure that quantifies shared information between random variables, particularly valuable in high-dimensional data analysis across fields like genomics, natural language processing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Andre O. Falcao

A measure of distance between two clusterings has important applications, including clustering validation and ensemble clustering. Generally, such distance measure provides navigation through the space of possible clusterings. Mostly used…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Reihaneh Rabbany , Osmar R. Zaïane

Mutual Information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence widely used in representation learning. While direct optimization of MI via its definition as a Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) is often intractable, many recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Reuben Dorent , Polina Golland , William Wells

Clustering is a concept used in a huge variety of applications. We review a conceptually very simple algorithm for hierarchical clustering called in the following the {\it mutual information clustering} (MIC) algorithm. It uses mutual…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-10 Alexander Kraskov , Peter Grassberger

Mutual information (MI) is one of the most general ways to measure relationships between random variables, but estimating this quantity for complex systems is challenging. Denoising diffusion models have recently set a new bar for density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Longxuan Yu , Xing Shi , Xianghao Kong , Tong Jia , Greg Ver Steeg

Many recent methods for unsupervised or self-supervised representation learning train feature extractors by maximizing an estimate of the mutual information (MI) between different views of the data. This comes with several immediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Michael Tschannen , Josip Djolonga , Paul K. Rubenstein , Sylvain Gelly , Mario Lucic

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

Self-supervised learning is a popular and powerful method for utilizing large amounts of unlabeled data, for which a wide variety of training objectives have been proposed in the literature. In this study, we perform a Bayesian analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Emanuele Sansone , Robin Manhaeve

Measuring Mutual Information (MI) between high-dimensional, continuous, random variables from observed samples has wide theoretical and practical applications. Recent work, MINE (Belghazi et al. 2018), focused on estimating tight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xiao Lin , Indranil Sur , Samuel A. Nastase , Ajay Divakaran , Uri Hasson , Mohamed R. Amer

In this work, we propose an information theory based framework DeepMI to train deep neural networks (DNN) using Mutual Information (MI). The DeepMI framework is especially targeted but not limited to the learning of real world tasks in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Ashish Kumar , Laxmidhar Behera

Many applications in image-guided surgery and therapy require fast and reliable non-linear, multi-modal image registration. Recently proposed unsupervised deep learning-based registration methods have demonstrated superior performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Gerard Snaauw , Michele Sasdelli , Gabriel Maicas , Stephan Lau , Johan Verjans , Mark Jenkinson , Gustavo Carneiro

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to minimize the time and memory consumption needed for training deep neural networks on large datasets, by creating a smaller synthetic dataset that has similar performance to that of the full real dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xinhao Zhong , Bin Chen , Hao Fang , Xulin Gu , Shu-Tao Xia , En-Hui Yang

The information bottleneck (IB) approach to clustering takes a joint distribution $P\!\left(X,Y\right)$ and maps the data $X$ to cluster labels $T$ which retain maximal information about $Y$ (Tishby et al., 1999). This objective results in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-02 DJ Strouse , David J Schwab