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This paper investigates pre-trained language models to find out which model intrinsically carries the most informative representation for task-oriented dialogue tasks. We approach the problem from two aspects: supervised classifier probe…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Chien-Sheng Wu , Caiming Xiong

Real-world decision-making tasks are generally complex, requiring trade-offs between multiple, often conflicting, objectives. Despite this, the majority of research in reinforcement learning and decision-theoretic planning either assumes…

Molecular Communication (MC) is a communication strategy that uses molecules as carriers of information, and is widely used by biological cells. As an interdisciplinary topic, it has been studied by biologists, communication theorists and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Amin Gohari , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

Mutual Information (MI) is a fundamental metric for quantifying dependency between two random variables. When we can access only the samples, but not the underlying distribution functions, we can evaluate MI using sample-based estimators.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Kyungeun Lee , Wonjong Rhee

Communication stands as a potent mechanism to harmonize the behaviors of multiple agents. However, existing works primarily concentrate on broadcast communication, which not only lacks practicality, but also leads to information redundancy.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chuxiong Sun , Zehua Zang , Jiabao Li , Jiangmeng Li , Xiao Xu , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng

Estimation of information theoretic quantities such as mutual information and its conditional variant has drawn interest in recent times owing to their multifaceted applications. Newly proposed neural estimators for these quantities have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Arnab Bhattacharya , Sudipto Mukherjee , Prathosh AP , Sreeram Kannan , Himanshu Asnani

Multi-task learning can leverage information learned by one task to benefit the training of other tasks. Despite this capacity, naive formulations often degrade performance and in particular, identifying the tasks that would benefit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Christopher Fifty , Ehsan Amid , Zhe Zhao , Tianhe Yu , Rohan Anil , Chelsea Finn

The Internet of Bio-nano Things is a significant development for next generation communication technologies. Because conventional wireless communication technologies face challenges in realizing new applications (e.g., in-body area networks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Bon-Hong Koo , Changmin Lee , Ali E. Pusane , Tuna Tugcu , Chan-Byoung Chae

Deep learning has been widely applied for the channel state information (CSI) feedback in frequency division duplexing (FDD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. For the typical supervised training of the feedback model,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Boyuan Zhang , Haozhen Li , Xin Liang , Xinyu Gu , Lin Zhang

Meta-learning optimizes an inductive bias---typically in the form of the hyperparameters of a base-learning algorithm---by observing data from a finite number of related tasks. This paper presents an information-theoretic bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Arezou Rezazadeh , Sharu Theresa Jose , Giuseppe Durisi , Osvaldo Simeone

Various applications for inter-machine communications are on the rise. Whether it is for autonomous driving vehicles or the internet of everything, machines are more connected than ever to improve their performance in fulfilling a given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

With countless promising applications in various domains such as IoT and industry 4.0, task-oriented communication design (TOCD) is getting accelerated attention from the research community. This paper presents a novel approach for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Arsham Mostaani , Thang X. Vu , Hamed Habibi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Mechanistic interpretability (MI) is an emerging sub-field of interpretability that seeks to understand a neural network model by reverse-engineering its internal computations. Recently, MI has garnered significant attention for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Daking Rai , Yilun Zhou , Shi Feng , Abulhair Saparov , Ziyu Yao

Task assignment and scheduling algorithms are powerful tools for autonomously coordinating large teams of robotic or AI agents. However, the decisions these system make often rely on components designed by domain experts, which can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jake Brawer , Kayleigh Bishop , Bradley Hayes , Alessandro Roncone

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence between two variables, yet accurate estimation from finite data remains notoriously difficult. No estimator is universally reliable, and common approaches fail in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-02 Eslam Abdelaleem , K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

We propose a targeted communication architecture for multi-agent reinforcement learning, where agents learn both what messages to send and whom to address them to while performing cooperative tasks in partially-observable environments. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Abhishek Das , Théophile Gervet , Joshua Romoff , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Michael Rabbat , Joelle Pineau

This paper presents expression of mutual information that defines the information gain in planning of sensing resources, when the goal is to reduce the forecast uncertainty of some quantities of interest and the system dynamics is described…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Han-Lim Choi

The task-oriented semantic communication systems have achieved significant performance gain, however, the paradigm that employs a model for a specific task might be limited, since the system has to be updated once the task is changed or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Guangyi Zhang , Qiyu Hu , Zhijin Qin , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu

A major concern in using deep learning based generative models for document-grounded dialogs is the potential generation of responses that are not \textit{faithful} to the underlying document. Existing automated metrics used for evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yatin Nandwani , Vineet Kumar , Dinesh Raghu , Sachindra Joshi , Luis A. Lastras

In this paper we describe a proposal for information organization for computer supported cooperative work, while working with spatial information. It is focused on emergency response plan construction, and the requirements extracted from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2011-11-24 André Sabino , Armanda Rodrigues