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Dataset Distillation (DD) seeks to create a compact dataset from a large, real-world dataset. While recent methods often rely on heuristic approaches to balance efficiency and quality, the fundamental relationship between original and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shaobo Wang , Yantai Yang , Guo Chen , Peiru Li , Kaixin Li , Yufa Zhou , Zhaorun Chen , Linfeng Zhang

Recently a class of generalized information measures was defined on sets of items parametrized by submodular functions. In this paper, we propose and study various notions of independence between sets with respect to such information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Himanshu Asnani , Jeff Bilmes , Rishabh Iyer

`scores` is a Python package containing mathematical functions for the verification, evaluation and optimisation of forecasts, predictions or models. It supports labelled n-dimensional (multidimensional) data, which is used in many…

Recommender systems have demonstrated significant impact across diverse domains, yet ensuring the reproducibility of experimental findings remains a persistent challenge. A primary obstacle lies in the fragmented and often opaque data…

The synthpop package for R https://www.synthpop.org.uk provides tools to allow data custodians to create synthetic versions of confidential microdata that can be distributed with fewer restrictions than the original. The synthesis can be…

Computation · Statistics 2021-11-16 Gillian M Raab , Beata Nowok , Chris Dibben

The method of optimizing entropy is used to (i) conduct Asymptotic Hypothesis Testing and (ii) determine the particle distribution for which Entropy is maximized. This paper focuses on two related applications of Information Theory:…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-09 Khizar Qureshi

Despite the explosion of interest in healthcare AI research, the reproducibility and benchmarking of those research works are often limited due to the lack of standard benchmark datasets and diverse evaluation metrics. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Yue Zhao , Zhi Qiao , Cao Xiao , Lucas Glass , Jimeng Sun

Information Theory provides a fundamental basis for analysis, and for a variety of subsequent methodological approaches, in relation to uncertainty quantification. The transversal character of concepts and derived results justifies its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Jose M. Angulo , Francisco J. Esquivel , Ana E. Madrid , Francisco J. Alonso

We incorporate into the empirical measure the auxiliary information given by a finite collection of expectation in an optimal information geometry way. This allows to unify several methods exploiting a side information and to uniquely…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-02 Sofiane Arradi-Alaoui

These lectures deal with the problem of inductive inference, that is, the problem of reasoning under conditions of incomplete information. Is there a general method for handling uncertainty? Or, at least, are there rules that could in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-09-08 Ariel Caticha

The traditional approach to the quantitative study of segregation is to employ indices that are selected by ``desirable properties''. Here, we detail how information theory underpins entropy-based indices and demonstrate how desirable…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-15 Boris Barron , Yunus A. Kinkhabwala , Chriss Hess , Matthew Hall , Itai Cohen , Tomás A. Arias

Research on the construction of traditional information science methodology taxonomy is mostly conducted manually. From the limited corpus, researchers have attempted to summarize some of the research methodology entities into several…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Heng Zhang , Chengzhi Zhang

We introduce the E-measure: a measure-like generalization of the E-value to a class of hypotheses. Unlike classical measures, E-measures are closed under infimums instead of addition. They arise from a compatibility axiom with logical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Nick W. Koning

In order to develop machine learning and deep learning models that take into account the guidelines and principles of trustworthy AI, a novel information theoretic trustworthy AI framework is introduced. A unified approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Mohit Kumar , Bernhard A. Moser , Lukas Fischer , Bernhard Freudenthaler

Informational entropy is often identified as physical entropy. This is surprising because the two quantities are differently defined and furthermore the former is a subjective quantity while the latter is an objective one. We describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Won-Young Hwang

Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is an audacious attempt to pin down the abstract, phenomenological experiences of consciousness into a rigorous, mathematical framework. We show that IIT's stance in regards to neuronal noise is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-10 Refath Bari

Prediction polling is an increasingly popular form of crowdsourcing in which multiple participants estimate the probability or magnitude of some future event. These estimates are then aggregated into a single forecast. Historically,…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-04-25 Ville A. Satopää , Shane T. Jensen , Robin Pemantle , Lyle H. Ungar

Capturing the interesting components of an image is a key aspect of image understanding. When a speaker annotates an image, selecting labels that are informative greatly depends on the prior knowledge of a prospective listener. Motivated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Lior Bracha , Gal Chechik

The paper considers a new quantitative-qualitative proximity measure for the features of information objects, where data enters a common information resource from several sources independently. The goal is to determine the possibility of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Volodymyr Yuzefovych

QuaPy is an open-source framework for performing quantification (a.k.a. supervised prevalence estimation), written in Python. Quantification is the task of training quantifiers via supervised learning, where a quantifier is a predictor that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Alejandro Moreo , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Sebastiani