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Williams and Beer (2010) proposed a nonnegative mutual information decomposition, based on the construction of information gain lattices, which allows separating the information that a set of variables contains about another into components…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-04-05 Daniel Chicharro , Stefano Panzeri

Multivariate functions emerge naturally in a wide variety of data-driven models. Popular choices are expressions in the form of basis expansions or neural networks. While highly effective, the resulting functions tend to be hard to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-15 Jan Decuyper , Koen Tiels , Siep Weiland , Mark C. Runacres , Johan Schoukens

The interaction of multiple fluids through a heterogeneous pore space leads to complex pore-scale flow dynamics, such as intermittent pathway flow. The non-local nature of these dynamics, and the size of the 4D datasets acquired to capture…

Shape-constrained functional data encompass a wide array of application fields, such as activity profiling, growth curves, healthcare and mortality. Most existing methods for general functional data analysis often ignore that such data are…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-13 Poorbita Kundu , Hans-Georg Müller

Complex biological systems have been successfully modeled by biochemical and genetic interaction networks, typically gathered from high-throughput (HTP) data. These networks can be used to infer functional relationships between genes or…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-13 Hyunghoon Cho , Bonnie Berger , Jian Peng

In the 21st century, many of the crucial scientific and technical issues facing humanity can be understood as problems associated with understanding, modelling, and ultimately controlling complex systems: systems comprised of a large number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Thomas F. Varley

Causal discovery across multiple datasets is often constrained by data privacy regulations and cross-site heterogeneity, limiting the use of conventional methods that require a single, centralized dataset. To address these challenges, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Maximilian Hahn , Alina Zajak , Dominik Heider , Adèle Helena Ribeiro

Understanding the dynamical behavior of complex systems is of exceptional relevance in everyday life, from biology to economy. In order to describe the dynamical organization of complex systems, existing methods require the knowledge of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-03-07 Marco Fiorucci

Entropy governs molecular self-assembly, phase transitions, and material stability, yet remains challenging to quantify and directly control in molecular systems. Here, we demonstrate that the computable information density (CID), a data…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-27 Ashley Z. Guo , Kaelyn Chang , Nicholas J. Corrente

The logic of information flows (LIF) is a general framework in which tasks of a procedural nature can be modeled in a declarative, logic-based fashion. The first contribution of this paper is to propose semantic and syntactic definitions of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Heba Aamer , Bart Bogaerts , Dimitri Surinx , Eugenia Ternovska , Jan Van den Bussche

Functional decomposition is the process of breaking down a function $f$ into a composition $f=g(f_1,\dots,f_k)$ of simpler functions $f_1,\dots,f_k$ belonging to some class $\mathcal{F}$. This fundamental notion can be used to model…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira , Wim Van den Broeck

Quantifying relationships between components of a complex system is critical to understanding the rich network of interactions that characterize the behavior of the system. Traditional methods for detecting pairwise dependence of time…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-04-10 Aria Nguyen , Oscar McMullin , Joseph T. Lizier , Ben D. Fulcher

Due to the heterogeneity of real-world data, the widely accepted independent and identically distributed (IID) assumption has been criticized in recent studies on causality. In this paper, we argue that instead of being a questionable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jiqing Wu , Inti Zlobec , Maxime Lafarge , Yukun He , Viktor H. Koelzer

Named Entity Recognition and Relation Extraction are two crucial and challenging subtasks in the field of Information Extraction. Despite the successes achieved by the traditional approaches, fundamental research questions remain open.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Yao Wang , Xin Liu , Weikun Kong , Hai-Tao Yu , Teeradaj Racharak , Kyoung-Sook Kim , Minh Le Nguyen

Denoising diffusion models enable conditional generation and density modeling of complex relationships like images and text. However, the nature of the learned relationships is opaque making it difficult to understand precisely what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Xianghao Kong , Ollie Liu , Han Li , Dani Yogatama , Greg Ver Steeg

Recently, the partial information decomposition emerged as a promising framework for identifying the meaningful components of the information contained in a joint distribution. Its adoption and practical application, however, have been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Ryan G. James , Jeffrey Emenheiser , James P. Crutchfield

A major challenge in causal discovery from observational data is the absence of perfect interventions, making it difficult to distinguish causal features from spurious ones. We propose an innovative approach, Feature Matching Intervention…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Haoze Li , Jun Xie

We consider a global representation of a regression or classification function by decomposing it into the sum of main and interaction components of arbitrary order. We propose a new identification constraint that allows for the extraction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Munir Hiabu , Joseph T. Meyer , Marvin N. Wright

Federated Inference (FI) studies how independently trained and privately owned models can collaborate at inference time without sharing data or model parameters. While recent work has explored secure and distributed inference from disparate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jungwon Seo , Ferhat Ozgur Catak , Chunming Rong , Jaeyeon Jang

This paper presents methods that quantify the structure of statistical interactions within a given data set, and was first used in \cite{Tapia2018}. It establishes new results on the k-multivariate mutual-informations (I_k) inspired by the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2019-10-02 Pierre Baudot , Monica Tapia , Daniel Bennequin , Jean-Marc Goaillard