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In this work, we generalize the information bottleneck (IB) approach to the multi-view learning context. The exponentially growing complexity of the optimal representation motivates the development of two novel formulations with more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Teng-Hui Huang , Aly El Gamal , Hesham El Gamal

We present an algorithm which combines recent advances in model based path integral control with machine learning approaches to learning forward dynamics models. We take advantage of the parallel computing power of a GPU to quickly take a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Grady Williams , Eric Rombokas , Tom Daniel

As autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles are deployed on the roads, they will have to eventually start communicating with each other in order to achieve increased efficiency and safety. Current approaches in the control of collaborative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Joseph Campbell , Cumhur Erkan Tuncali , Theodore P. Pavlic , Georgios Fainekos

Deep learning representations are often difficult to interpret, which can hinder their deployment in sensitive applications. Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) have emerged as a promising approach to mitigate this issue by learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Antonio Almudévar , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Alfonso Ortega

We present an embedding of stochastic optimal control problems, of the so called path integral form, into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Using consistent, sample based estimates of the embedding leads to a model free, non-parametric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Konrad Rawlik , Marc Toussaint , Sethu Vijayakumar

This paper considers optimal control of dynamical systems which are represented by nonlinear stochastic differential equations. It is well-known that the optimal control policy for this problem can be obtained as a function of a value…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Oktay Arslan , Evangelos Theodorou , Panagiotis Tsiotras

The information bottleneck (IB) principle has been adopted to explain deep learning in terms of information compression and prediction, which are balanced by a trade-off hyperparameter. How to optimize the IB principle for better robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Penglong Zhai , Shihua Zhang

In many complex systems, we observe that `interesting behaviour' is often the consequence of a system exploiting the existence of an Information Bottleneck (IB). These bottlenecks can occur at different scales, between individuals or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-02 Michael Crosscombe , Hiroki Sato

Information bottleneck (IB) is a paradigm to extract information in one target random variable from another relevant random variable, which has aroused great interest due to its potential to explain deep neural networks in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Bo Bai , Yining Sun

Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control is a type of sampling-based model predictive control that simulates thousands of trajectories and uses these trajectories to synthesize optimal controls on-the-fly. In practice, however, MPPI…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Ji Yin , Charles Dawson , Chuchu Fan , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Information Bottleneck (IB) is a technique to extract information about one target random variable through another relevant random variable. This technique has garnered significant interest due to its broad applications in information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Jiachuan Ye , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu

The Information Bottleneck (IB) method (\cite{tishby2000information}) provides an insightful and principled approach for balancing compression and prediction for representation learning. The IB objective $I(X;Z)-\beta I(Y;Z)$ employs a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Tailin Wu , Ian Fischer , Isaac L. Chuang , Max Tegmark

An effective implementation of enhanced sampling algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations requires a priori knowledge of the approximate reaction coordinate describing the relevant mechanisms in the system. Here we demonstrate how the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Shams Mehdi , Dedi Wang , Shashank Pant , Pratyush Tiwary

Robotic planning in real-world scenarios typically requires joint optimization of logic and continuous variables. A core challenge to combine the strengths of logic planners and continuous solvers is the design of an efficient interface…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Erez Karpas , Michael Katz , Marc Toussaint

The Symmetric Information Bottleneck (SIB), an extension of the more familiar Information Bottleneck, is a dimensionality reduction technique that simultaneously compresses two random variables to preserve information between their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

The task of identifying multimodal image-text representations has garnered increasing attention, particularly with models such as CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining), which demonstrate exceptional performance in learning complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Zhiyu Zhu , Zhibo Jin , Jiayu Zhang , Nan Yang , Jiahao Huang , Jianlong Zhou , Fang Chen

This paper is concerned with the automated complexity analysis of term rewrite systems (TRSs for short) and the ramification of these in implicit computational complexity theory (ICC for short). We introduce a novel path order with multiset…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-09-19 Martin Avanzini , Georg Moser

Cyclomatic complexity is an incompletely specified but mathematically principled software metric that can be usefully applied to both source and binary code. We consider the application of path homology as a stronger analogue of cyclomatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Steve Huntsman

Deep learning has revolutionized modern society but faces growing energy and latency constraints. Deep physical neural networks (PNNs) are interconnected computing systems that directly exploit analog dynamics for energy-efficient,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Hao Wang , Ziao Wang , Xiangpeng Liang , Han Zhao , Jianqi Hu , Junjie Jiang , Xing Fu , Jianshi Tang , Huaqiang Wu , Sylvain Gigan , Qiang Liu

We study the problem of compilation of quantum algorithms into optimized physical-level circuits executable in a quantum information processing (QIP) experiment based on trapped atomic ions. We report a complete strategy: starting with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Dmitri Maslov