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Adversarial training (AT) has shown excellent high performance in defending against adversarial examples. Recent studies demonstrate that examples are not equally important to the final robustness of models during AT, that is, the so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Mengting Xu , Tao Zhang , Zhongnian Li , Daoqiang Zhang

Multimodal data has significantly advanced recommendation systems by integrating diverse information sources to model user preferences and item characteristics. However, these systems often struggle with redundant and irrelevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hui Wang , Jinghui Qin , Wushao Wen , Qingling Li , Shanshan Zhong , Zhongzhan Huang

In recent years, self-supervised learning has played a pivotal role in advancing machine learning by allowing models to acquire meaningful representations from unlabeled data. An intriguing research avenue involves developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Denis Janiak , Jakub Binkowski , Piotr Bielak , Tomasz Kajdanowicz

Although link prediction on graphs has achieved great success with the development of graph neural networks (GNNs), the potential robustness under the edge noise is still less investigated. To close this gap, we first conduct an empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Zhanke Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Jiaxu Liu , Xiawei Guo , Quanming Yao , Li He , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng , Bo Han

This paper investigates a multi-terminal source coding problem under a logarithmic loss fidelity which does not necessarily lead to an additive distortion measure. The problem is motivated by an extension of the Information Bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Matías Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega , Pablo Piantanida

Identifying the dynamical state variables of a system from high-dimensional observations is a central problem across physical sciences. The challenge is that the state variables are not directly observable and must be inferred from raw…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-04-28 K. Michael Martini , Eslam Abdelaleem , Paarth Gulati , Ilya Nemenman

This study comes as a timely response to mounting criticism of the information bottleneck (IB) theory, injecting fresh perspectives to rectify misconceptions and reaffirm its validity. Firstly, we introduce an auxiliary function to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Faxian Cao , Yongqiang Cheng , Adil Mehmood Khan , Zhijing Yang

Deep learning models are nowadays broadly deployed to solve an incredibly large variety of tasks. Commonly, leveraging over the availability of "big data", deep neural networks are trained as black-boxes, minimizing an objective function at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Enzo Tartaglione

Due to the superior performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in various domains, there is an increasing interest in the GNN explanation problem "\emph{which fraction of the input graph is the most crucial to decide the model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Qinghua Zheng , Jihong Wang , Minnan Luo , Yaoliang Yu , Jundong Li , Lina Yao , Xiaojun Chang

Most works studying representation learning focus only on classification and neglect regression. Yet, the learning objectives and, therefore, the representation topologies of the two tasks are fundamentally different: classification targets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Shihao Zhang , kenji kawaguchi , Angela Yao

The learning dynamics of deep neural networks are not well understood. The information bottleneck (IB) theory proclaimed separate fitting and compression phases. But they have since been heavily debated. We comprehensively analyze the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Johannes Schneider , Mohit Prabhushankar

In this paper we examine a formalization of feature distribution learning (FDL) in information-theoretic terms relying on the analytical approach and on the tools already used in the study of the information bottleneck (IB). It has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Fabio Massimo Zennaro , Ke Chen

We show that if the conditional distribution p(C | T) factors through a sufficient statistic {\phi}(T), then the Information Bottleneck (IB) problem for (T, C) is exactly equivalent to the IB problem for ({\phi}(T), C). The reduction is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Joss Armstrong

Generative LLM have achieved remarkable success in various industrial applications, owing to their promising In-Context Learning capabilities. However, the issue of long context in complex tasks poses a significant barrier to their wider…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yihang Wang , Xu Huang , Bowen Tian , Yueyang Su , Lei Yu , Huaming Liao , Yixing Fan , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

In this paper, we propose a novel method, IB-RAR, which uses Information Bottleneck (IB) to strengthen adversarial robustness for both adversarial training and non-adversarial-trained methods. We first use the IB theory to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Xiaoyun Xu , Guilherme Perin , Stjepan Picek

Collaborative edge sensing systems, particularly in collaborative perception systems in autonomous driving, can significantly enhance tracking accuracy and reduce blind spots with multi-view sensing capabilities. However, their limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhengru Fang , Senkang Hu , Liyan Yang , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

Task-oriented communications, mostly using learning-based joint source-channel coding (JSCC), aim to design a communication-efficient edge inference system by transmitting task-relevant information to the receiver. However, only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Songjie Xie , Shuai Ma , Ming Ding , Yuanming Shi , Mingjian Tang , Youlong Wu

Task-oriented semantic communication emerges as a crucial paradigm for next-generation wireless networks, aiming to efficiently transmit task-relevant information while reducing interference and redundancy across multiple users. Existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Jiaxiang Wang , Zhaohui Yang , Yahao Ding , Ye Hu , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Markov processes are widely used mathematical models for describing dynamic systems in various fields. However, accurately simulating large-scale systems at long time scales is computationally expensive due to the short time steps required…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Marco Federici , Patrick Forré , Ryota Tomioka , Bastiaan S. Veeling

Domain generalization models learn to generalize to previously unseen domains, but suffer from prediction uncertainty and domain shift. In this paper, we address both problems. We introduce a probabilistic meta-learning model for domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Yingjun Du , Jun Xu , Huan Xiong , Qiang Qiu , Xiantong Zhen , Cees G. M. Snoek , Ling Shao