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Control in fluid environments is an important research area with numerous applications across various domains, including underwater robotics, aerospace engineering, and biomedical systems. However, in practice, control methods often face…

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The entropy of a pair of random variables is commonly depicted using a Venn diagram. This representation is potentially misleading, however, since the multivariate mutual information can be negative. This paper presents new measures of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Conor Finn , Joseph T. Lizier

The mutual information method has demonstrated to be very useful for deriving the potential order parameter of a system. Although the method suggests some constraints which help to define this quantity, there is still some freedom in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-08 Ivan Arraut , Wing Chi Yu

We consider an approximation scheme for multivariate information assuming that synergistic information only appearing in higher order joint distributions is suppressed, which may hold in large classes of systems. Our approximation scheme…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-03 Masahiro Takimoto

We introduce physics-informed multimodal autoencoders (PIMA) - a variational inference framework for discovering shared information in multimodal scientific datasets representative of high-throughput testing. Individual modalities are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Nathaniel Trask , Carianne Martinez , Kookjin Lee , Brad Boyce

Data informativity provides a theoretical foundation for determining whether collected data are sufficiently informative to achieve specific control objectives in data-driven control frameworks. In this study, we investigate the data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Taira Kaminaga , Hampei Sasahara

Estimating the mutual information from samples from a joint distribution is a challenging problem in both science and engineering. In this work, we realize a variational bound that generalizes both discriminative and generative approaches.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-05 Marco Federici , David Ruhe , Patrick Forré

Systems of interest for theoretical or experimental work often exhibit high-order interactions, corresponding to statistical interdependencies in groups of variables that cannot be reduced to dependencies in subsets of them. While still…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Fernando E. Rosas , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Michael Gastpar

The Bayesian and Akaike information criteria aim at finding a good balance between under- and over-fitting. They are extensively used every day by practitioners. Yet we contend they suffer from at least two afflictions: their penalty…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Sylvain Sardy , Maxime van Cutsem , Sara van de Geer

Reliable estimation of predictive uncertainty is crucial for machine learning applications, particularly in high-stakes scenarios where hedging against risks is essential. Despite its significance, there is no universal agreement on how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Kajetan Schweighofer , Lukas Aichberger , Mykyta Ielanskyi , Sepp Hochreiter

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

We consider a generalization of an important class of high-dimensional inference problems, namely spiked symmetric matrix models, often used as probabilistic models for principal component analysis. Such paradigmatic models have recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Jean Barbier , Galen Reeves

We consider Bayesian optimization of an expensive-to-evaluate black-box objective function, where we also have access to cheaper approximations of the objective. In general, such approximations arise in applications such as reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-16 Matthias Poloczek , Jialei Wang , Peter I. Frazier

We present a new family of information-theoretic generalization bounds within the framework of conditional mutual information (CMI). Most of our results are established based on the leave-$m$-out (L$m$O) cross-validation error, with $m$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yang Lu , Matthias Frey , Margreta Kuijper , Jingge Zhu

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence, with a myriad of applications to information theory, statistics, and machine learning. While it possesses many desirable structural properties, the estimation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald

The Free Energy Principle (FEP) is a leading framework for mathematically modeling self-organization and learning, while Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a computational ontology of consciousness oriented around irreducible cause and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-14 Alexander Kearney

The problem of decomposing non-manifold object has already been studied in solid modeling. However, the few proposed solutions are limited to the problem of decomposing solids described through their boundaries. In this thesis we study the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Franco Morando

Integrated information theory is a mathematical, quantifiable theory of conscious experience. The linchpin of this theory, the $\phi$ measure, quantifies a system's irreducibility to disjoint parts. Purely as a measure of irreducibility, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Virgil Griffith

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools for modeling complex data distributions, yet their purely data-driven nature limits applicability in practical engineering and scientific problems where physical laws need to be…

Item IDs form the backbone of industrial recommender systems, but suffer from representation instability and poor long-tail generalization in large, dynamic item corpora. Semantic IDs (SIDs) mitigate these issues by enabling knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yi Xu , Moyu Zhang , Chaofan Fan , Jinxin Hu , Xiaochen Li , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang