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48 results for information coding

Proposes a framework to maximize mutual information in VAE models for better latent code representation.

problem Lack of explicit measurement of the quality of learned representations in VAE models.
method Variational Mutual Information Maximization Framework for VAE.
result Maximizes mutual information between latent codes and observations, improving latent code representation.

Tutorial on information bottleneck problems with connections to coding and learning.

problem Information bottleneck problems and their connections to coding and learning.
method Information theoretic perspective, practical methods, connections to various problems.
result Optimal trade-offs between relevance and complexity in discrete and vector Gaussian frameworks.

MedGraph learns patient visit embeddings from EMRs, capturing both attributes and temporal sequences.

problem Limited EMR embedding methods fail to capture patient demographics, utilisation, and code descriptions.
method MedGraph constructs an attributed bipartite graph and uses a point process to model temporal sequences.
result MedGraph outperforms state-of-the-art methods in medical risk prediction tasks.

End-to-end learning of codes for secure BPSK communication in Gaussian wiretap channel.

problem Secure communication in the presence of an adversary for BPSK modulation.
method Learning finite-length codes using deep neural networks (DNNs) with mutual information estimation.
result Learned codes achieve near-optimal security performance, as demonstrated by numerical results.

Paper explores understanding of neural source code embeddings.

problem Lack of understanding of contents and characteristics of code2vec embeddings.
method Small case study using code2vec embeddings to create binary SVM classifiers and compare performance with handcrafted features.
result Code2vec embeddings perform similarly to handcrafted features and have more evenly distributed information gains.

The design of codes for communicating reliably over a statistically well defined channel is an important endeavor involving deep mathematical research and wide-ranging practical applications. In this work, we present the first family of codes obtained via deep learning, which significantly beats state-of-the-art codes …

2018-07-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Unsupervised model generates distinct intonation codes for speech synthesis.

problem Lack of understanding of what prosodic variations are controlled in speech synthesis.
method Phrase-level variational autoencoder with multi-modal prior, using mode centres as intonation codes.
result Generated intonation codes are perceptually distinct and carry various affect-related styles.

GMBL uses graph embedding to learn binary codes from multiple views for clustering.

problem Lack of complete structure and complementary information from multiple views in single-view hash clustering methods.
method Graph-based Multi-view Binary Learning (GMBL) using Laplacian matrix to preserve data structure and assign weights to views.
result GMBL outperforms previous methods in clustering performance on multiple datasets.

Study on reducing forgetting in neural networks using compression theory.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in neural networks.
method Defined forgetting as increased description lengths, compared variational posterior approaches to prequential coding methods.
result Proposed a new continual learning method combining ML plug-in and Bayesian mixture codes.

New algorithm for active learning from feedback coding.

problem Efficiently selecting examples for labeling in active machine learning.
method Formalized structural similarities between active learning and feedback channel coding, developed an optimal transport-based algorithm called Approximate Posterior Matching (APM).
result Learning performance comparable to existing methods at reduced computational cost.

Recent research has repeatedly shown that machine learning techniques can be applied to either whole files or file fragments to classify them for analysis. We build upon these techniques to show that for samples of un-labeled compiled computer object code, one can apply the same type of analysis to classify important a…

2018-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Characterization of a patient clinical phenotype is central to biomedical informatics. ICD codes, assigned to inpatient encounters by coders, is important for population health and cohort discovery when clinical information is limited. While ICD codes are assigned to patients by professionals trained and certified in c…

2018-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

New metric space for ReLU codes connects to network safety and robustness.

problem Lack of metrics capturing network safety and robustness beyond accuracy.
method Introduces a metric space of ReLU activation codes with a truncated Hamming distance.
result Establishes an isometry between ReLU codes and polyhedral bodies related to safety and robustness.

In this paper, a novel approach for coding nominal data is proposed. For the given nominal data, a rank in a form of complex number is assigned. The proposed method does not lose any information about the attribute and brings other properties previously unknown. The approach based on these knew properties can been used…

2016-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study neural communication systems with bandwidth-limited channels.

problem Reliable message transmission despite noisy channels.
method Jointly model compression and error correction with neural networks; introduce prior for missing information; use auxiliary latent variables.
result Joint neural communication systems outperform separate models under expected information loss.

This paper introduces Associative Compression Networks (ACNs), a new framework for variational autoencoding with neural networks. The system differs from existing variational autoencoders (VAEs) in that the prior distribution used to model each code is conditioned on a similar code from the dataset. In compression term…

2018-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Label space expansion for multi-label classification (MLC) is a methodology that encodes the original label vectors to higher dimensional codes before training and decodes the predicted codes back to the label vectors during testing. The methodology has been demonstrated to improve the performance of MLC algorithms whe…

2016-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised dictionary learning method that uses both the information in labelled and unlabelled data and jointly trains a linear classifier embedded on the sparse codes. The manifold structure of the data in the sparse code space is preserved using the same approach as the Locally Linea…

2018-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New method decomposes sensory information from neurons into specific stimuli and features.

problem Understanding how much and what specific information neurons encode.
method Introduced axioms for meaningful stimulus-wise decomposition and derived a tractable solution using diffusion models.
result Can efficiently estimate contributions of specific stimuli and features to encoded information.

A new multi-label CPC method improves mutual information estimation and representation learning.

problem Underestimation of mutual information in contrastive predictive coding.
method Introducing a multi-label classification problem to overcome the logm\log m bound in mutual information estimation.
result The new method exceeds the logm\log m bound and leads to better mutual information estimation and improved unsupervised representation learning.

The scientific literature is a rich source of information for data mining with conceptual knowledge graphs; the open science movement has enriched this literature with complementary source code that implements scientific models. To exploit this new resource, we construct a knowledge graph using unsupervised learning me…

2019-08-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Clinical notes are text documents that are created by clinicians for each patient encounter. They are typically accompanied by medical codes, which describe the diagnosis and treatment. Annotating these codes is labor intensive and error prone; furthermore, the connection between the codes and the text is not annotated…

2018-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

This work proposes a meta-learning approach for better adaptation of source code models.

problem Adapting source code models to unseen local contexts.
method Formulated as a meta-learning problem, selecting targeted information for adaptation.
result Improved performance in code auto-completion tasks, especially for identifiers and literals.

Hash codes are a very efficient data representation needed to be able to cope with the ever growing amounts of data. We introduce a random forest semantic hashing scheme with information-theoretic code aggregation, showing for the first time how random forest, a technique that together with deep learning have shown spe…

2014-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗

In many applications, it is desirable to extract only the relevant aspects of data. A principled way to do this is the information bottleneck (IB) method, where one seeks a code that maximizes information about a 'relevance' variable, Y, while constraining the information encoded about the original data, X. Unfortunate…

2016-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Sparse coding, which represents a data point as a sparse reconstruction code with regard to a dictionary, has been a popular data representation method. Meanwhile, in database retrieval problems, learning the ranking scores from data points plays an important role. Up to now, these two problems have always been conside…

2014-09-08abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we introduce a deep learning-based polar code construction algorithm. The core idea is to represent the information/frozen bit indices of a polar code as a binary vector which can be interpreted as trainable weights of a neural network (NN). For this, we demonstrate how this binary vector can be relaxed t…

2019-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning compact discrete representations of data is a key task on its own or for facilitating subsequent processing of data. In this paper we present a model that produces Discrete InfoMax Codes (DIMCO); we learn a probabilistic encoder that yields k-way d-dimensional codes associated with input data. Our model's lear…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper models the crowdsourced labeling/classification problem as a sparsely encoded source coding problem, where each query answer, regarded as a code bit, is the XOR of a small number of labels, as source information bits. In this paper we leverage the connections between this problem and well-studied codes with …

2019-06-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Effective representation learning of electronic health records is a challenging task and is becoming more important as the availability of such data is becoming pervasive. The data contained in these records are irregular and contain multiple modalities such as notes, and medical codes. They are preempted by medical co…

2019-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

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 measuring information entails some subtleties, since a trained network is a determinist…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances hashing for fast retrieval with correlated bits.

problem Fast retrieval and small memory footprint for large-scale information retrieval.
method Employing Boltzmann machine distribution as variational posterior to model correlations among hash code bits.
result Significant performance gains achieved by effectively modeling correlations among hash code bits.