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This thesis uses a quantity that is defined and justified by information theory -- mutual information -- to examine models of condensed matter systems. More precisely, it studies models which are made up out of ferromagnetically interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-19 Johannes Wilms

Generalized mutual information (GMI) is used to compute achievable rates for fading channels with various types of channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT) and receiver (CSIR). The GMI is based on variations of auxiliary channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Gerhard Kramer

This paper presents a novel approach to machine learning algorithm design based on information theory, specifically mutual information (MI). We propose a framework for learning and representing functional relationships in data using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jeremy Nixon

The spin-1 classical Blume-Capel model on a square lattice is known to exhibit a finite-temperature phase transition described by the tricritical Ising CFT in 1+1 space-time dimensions. This phase transition can be accessed with classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-22 Ipsita Mandal , Stephen Inglis , Roger G. Melko

Diffusion bridge models in both continuous and discrete state spaces have recently become powerful tools in the field of generative modeling. In this work, we leverage the discrete state space formulation of bridge matching models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Iryna Zabarianska , Sergei Kholkin , Grigoriy Ksenofontov , Ivan Butakov , Alexander Korotin

Mutual information (MI) is the standard method used in image registration and the most studied one but can diverge and produce wrong results when used in an automated manner. In this study we compared the results of the ITK Mattes MI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-25 Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna , Luiz Otavio Murta Junior

Estimation of information theoretic quantities such as mutual information and its conditional variant has drawn interest in recent times owing to their multifaceted applications. Newly proposed neural estimators for these quantities have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Arnab Bhattacharya , Sudipto Mukherjee , Prathosh AP , Sreeram Kannan , Himanshu Asnani

The ability of machine learning (ML) algorithms to generalize well to unseen data has been studied through the lens of information theory, by bounding the generalization error with the input-output mutual information (MI), i.e., the MI…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-07 Kimia Nadjahi , Kristjan Greenewald , Rickard Brüel Gabrielsson , Justin Solomon

Mutual information (MI) is one of the most general ways to measure relationships between random variables, but estimating this quantity for complex systems is challenging. Denoising diffusion models have recently set a new bar for density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Longxuan Yu , Xing Shi , Xianghao Kong , Tong Jia , Greg Ver Steeg

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

We describe a new direct method to estimate bipartite mutual information of a classical spin system based on Monte Carlo sampling enhanced by autoregressive neural networks. It allows studying arbitrary geometries of subsystems and can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Piotr Białas , Piotr Korcyl , Tomasz Stebel

Complex systems often exhibit multiple levels of organization covering a wide range of physical scales, so the study of the hierarchical decomposition of their structure and function is frequently convenient. To better understand this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Juan I. Perotti , Nahuel Almeira , Fabio Saracco

Mutual information (MI) minimization has gained considerable interests in various machine learning tasks. However, estimating and minimizing MI in high-dimensional spaces remains a challenging problem, especially when only samples, rather…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Pengyu Cheng , Weituo Hao , Shuyang Dai , Jiachang Liu , Zhe Gan , Lawrence Carin

Recently, Mutual Information (MI) has attracted attention in bounding the generalization error of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). However, it is intractable to accurately estimate the MI in DNNs, thus most previous works have to relax the MI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Xinjie Lan , Kenneth Barner

We study a proper definition of R\'enyi mutual information (RMI) in quantum field theory as defined via the Petz R\'enyi relative entropy. Unlike the standard definition, the RMI we compute is a genuine measure of correlations between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-16 Jonah Kudler-Flam

In this paper, it is shown that the rank function of a matroid can be represented by a "mutual information function" if and only if the matroid is binary. The mutual information function considered is the one measuring the amount of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Emmanuel Abbe

Estimating mutual information (MI) between two continuous random variables $X$ and $Y$ allows to capture non-linear dependencies between them, non-parametrically. As such, MI estimation lies at the core of many data science applications.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Alexander Marx , Jonas Fischer

Sliced mutual information (SMI) is defined as an average of mutual information (MI) terms between one-dimensional random projections of the random variables. It serves as a surrogate measure of dependence to classic MI that preserves many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Ziv Goldfeld , Kristjan Greenewald , Theshani Nuradha , Galen Reeves

We present a mutual information-based framework for unsupervised image-to-image translation. Our MCMI approach treats single-cycle image translation models as modules that can be used recurrently in a multi-cycle translation setting where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xiang Xu , Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori , Manolis Savva

Information-theoretic quantities reveal dependencies among variables in the structure of joint, marginal, and conditional entropies, but leave some fundamentally different systems indistinguishable. Furthermore, there is no consensus on how…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Abel Jansma