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Mutual Information (MI) is often used for feature selection when developing classifier models. Estimating the MI for a subset of features is often intractable. We demonstrate, that under the assumptions of conditional independence, MI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Hemanth Venkateswara , Prasanth Lade , Binbin Lin , Jieping Ye , Sethuraman Panchanathan

The emergence of intelligent applications has fostered the development of a task-oriented communication paradigm, where a comprehensive, universal, and practical metric is crucial for unleashing the potential of this paradigm. To this end,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Shuying Gan , Xijun Wang , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

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

The presence of mutual information in the research of deep learning has grown significantly. It has been proven that mutual information can be a good objective function to build a robust deep learning model. Most of the researches utilize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Marshal Arijona Sinaga

Due to the significance and value in human-computer interaction and natural language processing, task-oriented dialog systems are attracting more and more attention in both academic and industrial communities. In this paper, we survey…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Zheng Zhang , Ryuichi Takanobu , Qi Zhu , Minlie Huang , Xiaoyan Zhu

Task-oriented communication presents a promising approach to improve the communication efficiency of edge inference systems by optimizing learning-based modules to extract and transmit relevant task information. However, real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Songjie Xie , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

The MISE Project (Mediation Information System Engineering) aims at providing collaborating organizations with a Mediation Information System (MIS) in charge of supporting interoperability of a collaborative network. MISE proposes an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-10-01 Frederick Benaben , Nicolas Boissel-Dallier , Herve Pingaud , Jean-Pierre Lorre

Effective problem solving among multiple agents requires a better understanding of the role of communication in collaboration. In this paper we show that there are communicative strategies that greatly improve the performance of…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Marilyn A. Walker

Learning to collaborate is critical in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). Previous works promote collaboration by maximizing the correlation of agents' behaviors, which is typically characterized by Mutual Information (MI) in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Pengyi Li , Hongyao Tang , Tianpei Yang , Xiaotian Hao , Tong Sang , Yan Zheng , Jianye Hao , Matthew E. Taylor , Wenyuan Tao , Zhen Wang , Fazl Barez

As interpretability gains attention in machine learning, there is a growing need for reliable models that fully explain representation content. We propose a mutual information (MI)-based method that decomposes neural network representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Lifeng Gu

Existing integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) beamforming design were mostly designed under perfect instantaneous channel state information (CSI), limiting their use in practical dynamic environments. In this paper, we study the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-18 Shanfeng Xu , Yanshuo Cheng , Siqiang Wang , Xinyi Wang , Zhong Zheng , Zesong Fei

Estimating Mutual Information (MI), a key measure of dependence of random quantities without specific modelling assumptions, is a challenging problem in high dimensions. We propose a novel mutual information estimator based on parametrizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-24 Haoran Ni , Martin Lotz

Although many pretrained models exist for text or images, there have been relatively fewer attempts to train representations specifically for dialog understanding. Prior works usually relied on finetuned representations based on generic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Bishal Santra , Sumegh Roychowdhury , Aishik Mandal , Vasu Gurram , Atharva Naik , Manish Gupta , Pawan Goyal

We present a mutual information-based framework for unsupervised image-to-image translation. Our MCMI approach treats single-cycle image translation models as modules that can be used recurrently in a multi-cycle translation setting where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiang Xu , Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori , Manolis Savva

The use of mutual information as a tool in private data sharing has remained an open challenge due to the difficulty of its estimation in practice. In this paper, we propose InfoShape, a task-based encoder that aims to remove unnecessary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Homa Esfahanizadeh , William Wu , Manya Ghobadi , Regina Barzilay , Muriel Medard

With increasing volume of data being used across machine learning tasks, the capability to target specific subsets of data becomes more important. To aid in this capability, the recently proposed Submodular Mutual Information (SMI) has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Nathan Beck , Truong Pham , Rishabh Iyer

Semantic communication aims to transmit information most relevant to a task rather than raw data, offering significant gains in communication efficiency for applications such as telepresence, augmented reality, and remote sensing. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Matin Mortaheb , Erciyes Karakaya , Sennur Ulukus

The following paper presents a novel orthogonal pilot design dedicated for \textcolor{black}{integrated sensing and communications (ISAC)} systems performing multi-user communications and target detection. After careful characterization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Ahmad Bazzi , Marwa Chafii

There is a growing need for pluralistic alignment methods that can steer language models towards individual attributes and preferences. One such method, Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information (SAMI), uses conditional mutual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Soham V. Govande

Deep models produce a number of features in each internal layer. A key problem in applications such as feature compression for remote inference is determining how important each feature is for the task(s) performed by the model. The problem…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Saeed Ranjbar Alvar , Ivan V. Bajić