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Collaborative perception systems leverage multiple edge devices, such surveillance cameras or autonomous cars, to enhance sensing quality and eliminate blind spots. Despite their advantages, challenges such as limited channel capacity and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zhengru Fang , Senkang Hu , Jingjing Wang , Yiqin Deng , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fang

The information bottleneck (IB) principle has been suggested as a way to analyze deep neural networks. The learning dynamics are studied by inspecting the mutual information (MI) between the hidden layers and the input and output. Notably,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Stephan Sloth Lorenzen , Christian Igel , Mads Nielsen

In a wide range of multimodal tasks, contrastive learning has become a particularly appealing approach since it can successfully learn representations from abundant unlabeled data with only pairing information (e.g., image-caption or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Paul Pu Liang , Zihao Deng , Martin Ma , James Zou , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Although deep neural networks have been immensely successful, there is no comprehensive theoretical understanding of how they work or are structured. As a result, deep networks are often seen as black boxes with unclear interpretations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Ravid Shwartz-Ziv

This paper proposes a deep representation learning using an information-theoretic loss with an aim to increase the inter-class distances as well as within-class similarity in the embedded space. Tasks such as anomaly and out-of-distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shin Ando

We address the question of characterizing and finding optimal representations for supervised learning. Traditionally, this question has been tackled using the Information Bottleneck, which compresses the inputs while retaining information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yann Dubois , Douwe Kiela , David J. Schwab , Ramakrishna Vedantam

Multimodal machine learning, mimicking the human brain's ability to integrate various modalities has seen rapid growth. Most previous multimodal models are trained on perfectly paired multimodal input to reach optimal performance. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ronghao Lin , Qiaolin He , Sijie Mai , Ying Zeng , Aolin Xiong , Li Huang , Yap-Peng Tan , Haifeng Hu

Instruction tuning fine-tunes pre-trained Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to handle real-world tasks. However, the rapid expansion of visual instruction datasets introduces data redundancy, leading to excessive computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Qifan Yu , Zhebei Shen , Zhongqi Yue , Yang Wu , Bosheng Qin , Wenqiao Zhang , Yunfei Li , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang

Multi-view learning attempts to generate a model with a better performance by exploiting the consensus and/or complementarity among multi-view data. However, in terms of complementarity, most existing approaches only can find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Jian-wei Liu , Xi-hao Ding , Run-kun Lu , Xionglin Luo

Human Multimodal Language Understanding (MLU) aims to infer human intentions by integrating related cues from heterogeneous modalities. Existing works predominantly follow a ``learning to attend" paradigm, which maximizes mutual information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Menghua Jiang , Yuncheng Jiang , Haifeng Hu , Sijie Mai

Multi-view clustering can make use of multi-source information for unsupervised clustering. Most existing methods focus on learning a fused representation matrix, while ignoring the influence of private information and noise. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Wenbiao Yan , Jihua Zhu , Yiyang Zhou , Yifei Wang , Qinghai Zheng

Recently, multi-view learning (MVL) has garnered significant attention due to its ability to fuse discriminative information from multiple views. However, real-world multi-view datasets are often heterogeneous and imperfect, which usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jie Xu , Na Zhao , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Xiaofeng Zhu

Incomplete multiview clustering is of high recent interest, fueled by the advancement of common information-based deep multiview learning. The practical scenarios where unpaired multiview data with missing values have wide applications in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 AbdAlRahman Odeh , Teng-Hui Huang , Hesham El Gamal

The information bottleneck principle is an elegant and useful approach to representation learning. In this paper, we investigate the problem of representation learning in the context of reinforcement learning using the information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Pei Yingjun , Hou Xinwen

Information Bottlenecks (IBs) learn representations that generalize to unseen data by information compression. However, existing IBs are practically unable to guarantee generalization in real-world scenarios due to the vacuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yilin Lyu , Xin Liu , Mingyang Song , Xinyue Wang , Yaxin Peng , Tieyong Zeng , Liping Jing

Continual learning (CL) is a setting in which an agent has to learn from an incoming stream of data sequentially. CL performance evaluates the model's ability to continually learn and solve new problems with incremental available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Josh Andle , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Catastrophic forgetting remains a fundamental challenge in continual learning, in which models often forget previous knowledge when fine-tuned on a new task. This issue is especially pronounced in class incremental learning (CIL), which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Amirhosein Javadi , Tuomas Oikarinen , Tara Javidi , Tsui-Wei Weng

We propose an approach to self-supervised representation learning based on maximizing mutual information between features extracted from multiple views of a shared context. For example, one could produce multiple views of a local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Philip Bachman , R Devon Hjelm , William Buchwalter

Normalization is fundamental to deep learning, but existing approaches such as BatchNorm, LayerNorm, and RMSNorm are variance-centric by enforcing zero mean and unit variance, stabilizing training without controlling how representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xiandong Zou , Jia Li , Xiaotong Yuan , Pan Zhou

Trustworthy multi-view learning has attracted extensive attention because evidence learning can provide reliable uncertainty estimation to enhance the credibility of multi-view predictions. Existing trusted multi-view learning methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xuyang Wang , Siyuan Duan , Qizhi Li , Guiduo Duan , Yuan Sun , Dezhong Peng