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In network science, researchers often use mutual information to understand the difference between network partitions produced by community detection methods. Here we extend the use of mutual information to covers, that is, the cases where a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-03 Alcides Viamontes Esquivel , Martin Rosvall

This paper presents a novel approach to machine learning algorithm design based on information theory, specifically mutual information (MI). We propose a framework for learning and representing functional relationships in data using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jeremy Nixon

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

We address the practical problems of estimating the information relations that characterize large networks. Building on methods developed for analysis of the neural code, we show that reliable estimates of mutual information can be obtained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Noam Slonim , Gurinder S. Atwal , Gasper Tkacik , William Bialek

Estimating mutual information (MI) between two continuous random variables $X$ and $Y$ allows to capture non-linear dependencies between them, non-parametrically. As such, MI estimation lies at the core of many data science applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Alexander Marx , Jonas Fischer

Estimating mutual information (MI) from samples is a fundamental problem in statistics, machine learning, and data analysis. Recently it was shown that a popular class of non-parametric MI estimators perform very poorly for strongly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Shuyang Gao , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

Mutual information is a nonlinear measure used in time series analysis in order to measure the linear and non-linear correlations at any lag $\tau$. The aim of this study is to evaluate some of the most commonly used mutual information…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-09-15 A. Papana , D. Kugiumtzis

Diffusion bridge models in both continuous and discrete state spaces have recently become powerful tools in the field of generative modeling. In this work, we leverage the discrete state space formulation of bridge matching models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Iryna Zabarianska , Sergei Kholkin , Grigoriy Ksenofontov , Ivan Butakov , Alexander Korotin

We develop the use of mutual information (MI), a well-established metric in information theory, to interpret the inner workings of deep learning models. To accurately estimate MI from a finite number of samples, we present GMM-MI…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-04-12 Davide Piras , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Ningyuan Guo , Brian Nord

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, yet evaluating their intrinsic linguistic understanding remains challenging. Moving beyond specialized evaluation tasks, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Shaojie Wang , Sirui Ding , Na Zou

The Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) has been widely used to evaluate the accuracy of community detection algorithms. However in this article we show that the NMI is seriously affected by systematic errors due to finite size of networks,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-09 Pan Zhang

The information theoretic quantity known as mutual information finds wide use in classification and community detection analyses to compare two classifications of the same set of objects into groups. In the context of classification…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-29 M. E. J. Newman , George T. Cantwell , Jean-Gabriel Young

Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-06-26 Marco Zaffalon , Marcus Hutter

Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Marco Zaffalon , Marcus Hutter

In the federated learning system, parameter gradients are shared among participants and the central modulator, while the original data never leave their protected source domain. However, the gradient itself might carry enough information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yong Liu , Xinghua Zhu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Mutual Information (MI) is a crucial measure for capturing dependencies between variables, but exact computation is challenging in high dimensions with intractable likelihoods, impacting accuracy and robustness. One idea is to use an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-13 Forough Fazeliasl , Michael Minyi Zhang , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong

With the rising popularity of the internet and the widespread use of networks and information systems via the cloud and data centers, the privacy and security of individuals and organizations have become extremely crucial. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Zakaria Tolba

We are assisting at a growing interest in the development of learning architectures with application to digital communication systems. Herein, we consider the detection/decoding problem. We aim at developing an optimal neural architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Andrea M. Tonello , Nunzio A. Letizia

Community structure discovery in complex networks is a quite challenging problem spanning many applications in various disciplines such as biology, social network and physics. Emerging from various approaches numerous algorithms have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-08-16 Günce Keziban Orman , Vincent Labatut , Hocine Cherifi

This article proposes a new method to estimate an existing mutual information based dependence measure using histogram density estimates. Finding a suitable bin length for histogram is an open problem. We propose a new way of computing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Namita Jain , C. A. Murthy