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Multi-interest candidate matching plays a pivotal role in personalized recommender systems, as it captures diverse user interests from their historical behaviors. Most existing methods utilize attention mechanisms to generate interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yankun Le , Haoran Li , Baoyuan Ou , Yingjie Qin , Zhixuan Yang , Ruilong Su , Fu Zhang

Several recent works in communication systems have proposed to leverage the power of neural networks in the design of encoders and decoders. In this approach, these blocks can be tailored to maximize the transmission rate based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Sina Molavipour , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

Recent research has devoted considerable effort to verifying the intermediate reasoning steps of chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories using process reward models (PRMs) and other verifier models. However, training a PRM typically requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nakyung Lee , Sangwoo Hong , Jungwoo Lee

Symmetric alpha-stable (S alpha S) distributions with alpha<2 lack finite classical Fisher information. Building on Johnson's framework, we define Mixed Fractional Information (MFI) via the initial rate of relative entropy dissipation…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-06 William Cook

After a clustering solution is generated automatically, labelling these clusters becomes important to help understanding the results. In this paper, we propose to use a Mutual Information based method to label clusters of journal articles.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Rob Koopman , Shenghui Wang

Subtraction of aligned images is a means to assess changes in a wide variety of clinical applications. In this paper we explore the information theoretical origin of Mutual Information (MI), which is based on Shannon's entropy.However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-06-19 W. Jacquet , P. de Groen

Density regression models allow a comprehensive understanding of data by modeling the complete conditional probability distribution. While flexible estimation approaches such as normalizing flows (NF) work particularly well in multiple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-13 Marcel Arpogaus , Thomas Kneib , Thomas Nagler , David Rügamer

Fairness in machine learning remains challenging due to its ethical complexity, the absence of a universal definition, and the need for context-specific bias metrics. Existing methods still struggle with intersectionality, multiclass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jeanne Monnier , Thomas George , Frédéric Guyard , Christèle Tarnec , Marios Kountouris

Clustering is a concept used in a huge variety of applications. We review a conceptually very simple algorithm for hierarchical clustering called in the following the {\it mutual information clustering} (MIC) algorithm. It uses mutual…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-10 Alexander Kraskov , Peter Grassberger

End-to-end deep learning for communication systems, i.e., systems whose encoder and decoder are learned, has attracted significant interest recently, due to its performance which comes close to well-developed classical encoder-decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Rick Fritschek , Rafael F. Schaefer , Gerhard Wunder

Mutual information is a theoretically grounded metric for quantifying cellular signaling pathways. However, its measurement demands characterization of both input and output distributions, limiting practical applications. Here, we present…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-08 Kento Nakamura , Hajime Fukuoka , Akihiko Ishijima , Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

This paper proposes a vision-conditioned flow matching (FM) framework for beam prediction in millimeter-wave vehicle-to-infrastructure links. Instead of modeling discrete beam-index sequences, the proposed method learns the temporal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Can Zheng , Jiguang He , Chung G. Kang , Guofa Cai , Chongwen Huang , Henk Wymeersch

Conditional flow matching (CFM) stands out as an efficient, simulation-free approach for training flow-based generative models, achieving remarkable performance for data generation. However, CFM is insufficient to ensure accuracy in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuhao Huang , Taos Transue , Shih-Hsin Wang , William Feldman , Hong Zhang , Bao Wang

The development of optimal and efficient machine learning-based communication systems is likely to be a key enabler of beyond 5G communication technologies. In this direction, physical layer design has been recently reformulated under a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Nunzio A. Letizia , Andrea M. Tonello

In this paper, we adopt the maximizing mutual information (MI) approach to tackle the problem of unsupervised learning of binary hash codes for efficient cross-modal retrieval. We proposed a novel method, dubbed Cross-Modal Info-Max Hashing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Tuan Hoang , Thanh-Toan Do , Tam V. Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Recent advances in maximizing mutual information (MI) between the source and target have demonstrated its effectiveness in text generation. However, previous works paid little attention to modeling the backward network of MI (i.e.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Boyuan Pan , Yazheng Yang , Kaizhao Liang , Bhavya Kailkhura , Zhongming Jin , Xian-Sheng Hua , Deng Cai , Bo Li

A major concern in using deep learning based generative models for document-grounded dialogs is the potential generation of responses that are not \textit{faithful} to the underlying document. Existing automated metrics used for evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Yatin Nandwani , Vineet Kumar , Dinesh Raghu , Sachindra Joshi , Luis A. Lastras

Flow Matching (FM) is a recent framework for generative modeling that has achieved state-of-the-art performance across various domains, including image, video, audio, speech, and biological structures. This guide offers a comprehensive and…

Background: Alignment of biological sequences such as DNA, RNA or proteins is one of the most widely used tools in computational bioscience. All existing alignment algorithms rely on heuristic scoring schemes based on biological expertise.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2008-10-27 Orion Penner , Peter Grassberger , Maya Paczuski

In multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA), the performance of a model highly depends on the quality of synthesized embeddings. These embeddings are generated from the upstream process called multimodal fusion, which aims to extract and combine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Wei Han , Hui Chen , Soujanya Poria