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The phase evolution of gravitational waves encodes critical information about the orbital dynamics of binary systems. In this work, we test the robustness of parameterized tests against unmodeled deviations from general relativity. We…

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Image/video data is usually represented with multiple visual features. Fusion of multi-source information for establishing the attributes has been widely recognized. Multi-feature visual recognition has recently received much attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lei Zhang , David Zhang

With the rapid emergence of multi-behavior learning in recommender systems, leveraging auxiliary user behaviors has proven effective for mitigating target-behavior data sparsity. Yet auxiliary behavior graphs frequently contain noisy or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Likang Wu , Zihao Chen , Jianxin Zhang , Sangqi Zhu , Yuanyuan Ge , Haipeng Yang , Lei Zhang

We introduce an information-theoretic framework that uses variational autoencoders (VAEs) to extract compact, physically interpretable manifolds from high-dimensional flow-field data. To this end, the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhiyuan Wang , Iacopo Tirelli , Stefano Discetti , Andrea Ianiro

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 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

Contrastive learning is effective for aligning paired views or modalities, but alignment beyond two modalities remains non-trivial and comparatively underexplored. Pairwise CLIP-style losses decompose multi-modal alignment into independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianchao Li , Shujian Yu , Xinrui Zu , Zhaolong Wei , Jeremy Gummeson , Jack C. P. Cheng , Robert Jenssen

Interpretable machine learning has gained much attention recently. Briefness and comprehensiveness are necessary in order to provide a large amount of information concisely when explaining a black-box decision system. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Seojin Bang , Pengtao Xie , Heewook Lee , Wei Wu , Eric Xing

Being infinite dimensional, non-parametric information geometry has long faced an "intractability barrier" due to the fact that the Fisher-Rao metric is now a functional incurring difficulties in defining its inverse. This paper introduces…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-08 Bing Cheng , Howell Tong

Information geometry and inductive inference methods can be used to model dynamical systems in terms of their probabilistic description on curved statistical manifolds. In this article, we present a formal conceptual reexamination of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 C. Cafaro , A. Giffin , S. A. Ali , D. -H. Kim

Graphs provide a powerful framework for modeling complex systems, but their structural variability poses significant challenges for analysis and classification. To address these challenges, we introduce GAUDI (Graph Autoencoder Uncovering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mirja Granfors , Jesús Pineda , Blanca Zufiria Gerbolés , Joana B. Pereira , Carlo Manzo , Giovanni Volpe

Information bottleneck is an information-theoretic principle of representation learning that aims to learn a maximally compressed representation that preserves as much information about labels as possible. Under this principle, two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yuyan Ni , Yanyan Lan , Ao Liu , Zhiming Ma

The Information Bottleneck (IB) objective uses information theory to formulate a task-performance versus robustness trade-off. It has been successfully applied in the standard discriminative classification setting. We pose the question…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Lynton Ardizzone , Radek Mackowiak , Carsten Rother , Ullrich Köthe

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are prominent for their effectiveness in processing graph data for semi-supervised node classification tasks. Most works of GNNs assume that the observed structure accurately represents the underlying node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Shuangjie Li , Jiangqing Song , Baoming Zhang , Gaoli Ruan , Junyuan Xie , Chongjun Wang

In this paper, we develop an unsupervised generative clustering framework that combines the Variational Information Bottleneck and the Gaussian Mixture Model. Specifically, in our approach, we use the Variational Information Bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yigit Ugur , George Arvanitakis , Abdellatif Zaidi

Integrated communication and control serves as a critical ingredient in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. However, partial observability limitations will impair collaboration effectiveness, and a potential solution is to establish…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ziqiong Wang , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao

Temporal graph learning is crucial for dynamic networks where nodes and edges evolve over time and new nodes continuously join the system. Inductive representation learning in such settings faces two major challenges: effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jiafeng Xiong , Rizos Sakellariou

Efficiently accessing the information contained in non-linear and high dimensional probability distributions remains a core challenge in modern statistics. Traditionally, estimators that go beyond point estimates are either categorized as…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-06 Philipp Frank , Reimar Leike , Torsten A. Enßlin

We introduce a bottleneck method for learning data representations based on information deficiency, rather than the more traditional information sufficiency. A variational upper bound allows us to implement this method efficiently. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Pradeep Kr. Banerjee , Guido Montúfar

Learning effective joint embedding for cross-modal data has always been a focus in the field of multimodal machine learning. We argue that during multimodal fusion, the generated multimodal embedding may be redundant, and the discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sijie Mai , Ying Zeng , Haifeng Hu