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Bivariate Partial Information Decomposition (PID) describes how the mutual information between a random variable M and two random variables Y and Z is decomposed into unique, redundant, and synergistic terms. Recently, PID has shown promise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Chaitanya Goswami , Amanda Merkley , Pulkit Grover

The integration and transfer of information from multiple sources to multiple targets is a core motive of neural systems. The emerging field of partial information decomposition (PID) provides a novel information-theoretic lens into these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ari Pakman , Amin Nejatbakhsh , Dar Gilboa , Abdullah Makkeh , Luca Mazzucato , Michael Wibral , Elad Schneidman

Multimodal learning significantly benefits cancer survival prediction, especially the integration of pathological images and genomic data. Despite advantages of multimodal learning for cancer survival prediction, massive redundancy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yilan Zhang , Yingxue Xu , Jianqi Chen , Fengying Xie , Hao Chen

A central challenge in analyzing multivariate interactions within complex systems is to decompose how multiple inputs jointly determine an output. Existing approaches generally operate on observed probability distributions and can conflate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Clifford Bohm , Vincent R. Ragusa , Arend Hintze , Charles Ofria , Emily Dolson , Christoph Adami

The key challenge in unaligned multimodal language sequences lies in effectively integrating information from various modalities to obtain a refined multimodal joint representation. Recently, the disentangle and fuse methods have achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Fan Qian , Jiqing Han , Jianchen Li , Yongjun He , Tieran Zheng , Guibin Zheng

Partial Information Decomposition (PID) has become one of the most prominent information-theoretic frameworks for describing the structure and quality of information in complex systems. Despite its widespread utility, there exists no unique…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Alberto Liardi , Keenan J. A. Down , George Blackburne , Matteo Neri , Pedro A. M. Mediano

Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant progress in generating naturalistic images from textual inputs, and demonstrate the capacity to learn and represent complex visual-semantic relationships. While these diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Rushikesh Zawar , Shaurya Dewan , Prakanshul Saxena , Yingshan Chang , Andrew Luo , Yonatan Bisk

Partial Information Decomposition (PID) seeks to disentangle how information about a target variable is distributed across multiple sources, separating redundant, unique, and synergistic contributions. Despite extensive theoretical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Philip Hendrik Matthias , Abdullah Makkeh , Michael Wibral , Aaron J. Gutknecht

Describing statistical dependencies is foundational to empirical scientific research. For uncovering intricate and possibly non-linear dependencies between a single target variable and several source variables within a system, a principled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-28 David A. Ehrlich , Kyle Schick-Poland , Abdullah Makkeh , Felix Lanfermann , Patricia Wollstadt , Michael Wibral

Real-world problems are often dependent on multiple data modalities, making multimodal fusion essential for leveraging diverse information sources. In high-stakes domains, such as in healthcare, understanding how each modality contributes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mafalda Malafaia , Thalea Schlender , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

The Partial Information Decomposition (PID) [arXiv:1004.2515] provides a theoretical framework to characterize and quantify the structure of multivariate information sharing. A new method (Idep) has recently been proposed for computing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-03 James W. Kay , Robin A. A. Ince

Learning effective joint representations has been a central task in multi-modal sentiment analysis. Previous works addressing this task focus on exploring sophisticated fusion techniques to enhance performance. However, the inherent…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Weichen Dai , Xingyu Li , Zeyu Wang , Pengbo Hu , Ji Qi , Jianlin Peng , Yi Zhou

Partial Information Decomposition (PID) represents multivariate mutual information via antichain-lattice that aims to specify which source groups can recover which informational components of a target. For three or more sources, widely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Aobo Lyu , Andrew Clark , Netanel Raviv

Multimodal human action understanding is a significant problem in computer vision, with the central challenge being the effective utilization of the complementarity among diverse modalities while maintaining model efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongsong Wang , Heng Fei , Bingxuan Dai , Jie Gui

Developing effective multimodal data fusion strategies has become increasingly essential for improving the predictive power of statistical machine learning methods across a wide range of applications, from autonomous driving to medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ziyi Liang , Annie Qu , Babak Shahbaba

Multimodal representation alignment is pivotal for large language models and robotics. Traditional methods are often hindered by cross-modal information discrepancies and data scarcity, leading to suboptimal alignment spaces that overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zeyu Chen , Jie Li , Kai Han

Multimodal fusion leverages information across modalities to learn better feature representations with the goal of improving performance in fusion-based tasks. However, multimodal datasets, especially in medical settings, are typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Alejandro Guerra-Manzanares , Farah E. Shamout

Partial information decomposition (PID) of the multivariate mutual information describes the distinct ways in which a set of source variables contains information about a target variable. The groundbreaking work of Williams and Beer has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Abdullah Makkeh , Aaron J. Gutknecht , Michael Wibral

Most existing debiasing methods for multimodal models, including causal intervention and inference methods, utilize approximate heuristics to represent the biases, such as shallow features from early stages of training or unimodal features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Vaidehi Patil , Adyasha Maharana , Mohit Bansal

We investigate the partial information decomposition (PID) framework as a tool for edge nomination. We consider both the $I_{\cap}^{\text{min}}$ and $I_{\cap}^{\text{PM}}$ PIDs, from arXiv:1004.2515 and arXiv:1801.09010 respectively, and we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Jesse Milzman , Vince Lyzinski