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The mutual and tripartite information between pairs and triples of disjoint regions in a quantum field theory are sensitive probes of the spread of correlations in an equilibrating system. We compute these quantities in strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-05 V. Balasubramanian , A. Bernamonti , N. Copland , B. Craps , F. Galli

With increasing volume of data being used across machine learning tasks, the capability to target specific subsets of data becomes more important. To aid in this capability, the recently proposed Submodular Mutual Information (SMI) has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Nathan Beck , Truong Pham , Rishabh Iyer

Information theoretic measures have helped to sharpen our understanding of many-body quantum states. As perhaps the most well-known example, the entanglement entropy (or more generally, the bipartite mutual information) has become a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Andrea Pizzi , Norman Y. Yao

We propose a novel approach to the problem of mutual information (MI) estimation via introducing a family of estimators based on normalizing flows. The estimator maps original data to the target distribution, for which MI is easier to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Ivan Butakov , Alexander Tolmachev , Sofia Malanchuk , Anna Neopryatnaya , Alexey Frolov

Many applications in image-guided surgery and therapy require fast and reliable non-linear, multi-modal image registration. Recently proposed unsupervised deep learning-based registration methods have demonstrated superior performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Gerard Snaauw , Michele Sasdelli , Gabriel Maicas , Stephan Lau , Johan Verjans , Mark Jenkinson , Gustavo Carneiro

Image registration is a key operation in medical image processing, allowing a plethora of applications. Mutual information (MI) is consolidated as a robust similarity metric often used for medical image registration. Although MI provides a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna , Luiz Otavio Murta

Mutual information (MI) is a principled and widely used objective for robotic information gathering (RIG), providing strong theoretical guarantees for sensor placement (SP) and informative path planning (IPP). However, its high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Kalvik Jakkala , Jason O'Kane , Srinivas Akella

We study quantum corrections to holographic mutual information for two disjoint spheres at a large separation by using the operator product expansion of the twist field. In the large separation limit, the holographic mutual information is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Bin Chen , Zhong-Ying Fan , Wen-Ming Li , Cheng-Yong Zhang

Mutual Information (MI) is a crucial measure for capturing dependencies between variables, but exact computation is challenging in high dimensions with intractable likelihoods, impacting accuracy and robustness. One idea is to use an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-13 Forough Fazeliasl , Michael Minyi Zhang , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong

As a fundamental concept in information theory, mutual information ($MI$) has been commonly applied to quantify association between random vectors. Most existing nonparametric estimators of $MI$ have unstable statistical performance since…

Applications · Statistics 2025-02-19 Soumik Purkayastha , Peter X. K. Song

Mutual Information is the metric that is used to perform link adaptation, which allows to achieve rates near capacity. The computation of adaptive transmission modes is achieved by employing the mapping between the Signal to Noise Ratio and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-26 Pol Henarejos , Ana Pérez-Neira , Anxo Tato , Carlos Mosquera

We develop the use of mutual information (MI), a well-established metric in information theory, to interpret the inner workings of deep learning models. To accurately estimate MI from a finite number of samples, we present GMM-MI…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-04-12 Davide Piras , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Ningyuan Guo , Brian Nord

Vindicating a sophisticated but non-rigorous physics approach called the cavity method, we establish a formula for the mutual information in statistical inference problems induced by random graphs and we show that the mutual information…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Florent Krzakala , Will Perkins , Lenka Zdeborova

Mutual information (MI) is a fundamental measure of statistical dependence between two variables, yet accurate estimation from finite data remains notoriously difficult. No estimator is universally reliable, and common approaches fail in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-10-02 Eslam Abdelaleem , K. Michael Martini , Ilya Nemenman

Taking a functional approach, we derive a general expression for the gradient of the Mutual Information (MI) with respect to the system parameters in the stochastic systems. This expression covers the cases in which the system input depends…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mahboobeh Sedighizad , Babak Seyfe

Mutual information (MI) is a general measure of statistical dependence with widespread application across the sciences. However, estimating MI between multi-dimensional variables is challenging because the number of samples necessary to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-06 Gokul Gowri , Xiao-Kang Lun , Allon M. Klein , Peng Yin

Estimating Mutual Information (MI), a key measure of dependence of random quantities without specific modelling assumptions, is a challenging problem in high dimensions. We propose a novel mutual information estimator based on parametrizing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-24 Haoran Ni , Martin Lotz

This paper proposes the estimation of a mutual shape from a set of different segmentation results using both active contours and information theory. The mutual shape is here defined as a consensus shape estimated from a set of different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 S. Jehan-Besson , R. Clouard , C. Tilmant , A. de Cesare , A. Lalande , J. Lebenberg , P. Clarysse , L. Sarry , F. Frouin , M. Garreau

There is a vast body of recent literature on the reliability of communication through noisy channels, the recovery of community structures in the stochastic block model, the limiting behavior of the free entropy in spin glasses and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Konstantinos Panagiotou , Matija Pasch

In the analysis of time series from nonlinear sources, mutual information (MI) is used as a nonlinear statistical criterion for the selection of an appropriate time delay in time delay reconstruction of the state space. MI is a statistic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Henry D. I. Abarbanel , Naoki Masuda , M. I. Rabinovich , Evren Tumer