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Whatever information a deep neural network has gleaned from training data is encoded in its weights. How this information affects the response of the network to future data remains largely an open question. Indeed, even defining and…
A method to estimate the time-dependent correlation via an empirical bias estimate of the time-delayed mutual information for a time-series is proposed. In particular, the bias of the time-delayed mutual information is shown to often be…
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Large language models (LLMs) are often ensembled together to improve overall reliability and robustness, but in practice models are strongly correlated. This raises a fundamental question: which models should be selected when forming an LLM…
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Measuring model performance is a key issue for deep learning practitioners. However, we often lack the ability to explain why a specific architecture attains superior predictive accuracy for a given data set. Often, validation accuracy is…
Diffusion bridge models have recently become a powerful tool in the field of generative modeling. In this work, we leverage their power to address another important problem in machine learning and information theory, the estimation of the…
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Realistic modeling of brain involves large number of neurons. The important question is how this size affects transmission efficiency? Here, these issue is studied in terms of Shannon's Theory. Mutual Information between input and output…
Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must…
Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address questions such as the reliability of the empirical value, one must…
This study presents a generalization for a method examining the correlation function of an arbitrary system with interactions in an Ising model to obtain a value of correlation between two arbitrary points on a network. The establishment of…
Forecasting techniques for assessing the power of future experiments to discriminate between theories or discover new laws of nature are of great interest in many areas of science. In this paper, we introduce a Bayesian forecasting method…
In this paper we focus on the estimation of mutual information from finite samples $(\mathcal{X}\times\mathcal{Y})$. The main concern with estimations of mutual information is their robustness under the class of transformations for which it…
Markov networks are frequently used in sciences to represent conditional independence relationships underlying observed variables arising from a complex system. It is often of interest to understand how an underlying network differs between…
Estimating mutual information between continuous random variables is often intractable and extremely challenging for high-dimensional data. Recent progress has leveraged neural networks to optimize variational lower bounds on mutual…