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48 results for information decomposition

In this paper we study the Föllmer-Schweizer decomposition of a square integrable random variable ξξ with respect to a given semimartingale SS under restricted information. Thanks to the relationship between this decomposition and that of the projection of ξξ with respect to the given information flow, we characteri…

2015-11-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper identifies key function spaces for ReLU networks based on Fisher information.

problem Understanding the structure of Fisher information matrices in ReLU networks.
method Spectral decomposition of Fisher information matrices, focusing on the first three eigenspaces.
result The first three eigenspaces account for 97.7% of the trace of the Fisher information matrix, corresponding to spherical harmonic functions of order ≤2.

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.

New method quantifies redundant information using information bottleneck.

problem Quantifying redundant information among multiple sources.
method Formulated as an information bottleneck problem, termed redundancy bottleneck.
result Extracts information that best predicts the target without revealing source identity.

We present a novel nonnegative tensor decomposition method, called Legendre decomposition, which factorizes an input tensor into a multiplicative combination of parameters. Thanks to the well-developed theory of information geometry, the reconstructed tensor is unique and always minimizes the KL divergence from an inpu…

2018-02-13abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework extracts useful information from tensor data with structural properties.

problem Extract useful information from tensor data with structural properties.
method Proposed an additive tensor decomposition (ATD) framework and an ADMM algorithm to solve the high dimensional optimization problem.
result Versatile and effective framework demonstrated in simulations and real medical image analysis.

APINNs improve physics-informed neural networks through flexible domain decomposition.

problem Improving physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for solving partial differential equations (PDEs).
method Introduces a trainable gate network for soft domain decomposition, allowing flexible parameter sharing and improved generalization.
result APINNs significantly improve PINNs and XPINNs, demonstrating better performance on various types of PDEs.

In many real-world systems, information can be transmitted in two qualitatively different ways: by copying or by transformation. Copying occurs when messages are transmitted without modification, e.g., when an offspring receives an unaltered copy of a gene from its parent. Transformation occurs when messages are modifi…

2019-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

RID framework quantifies and regularizes task-relevant knowledge in distillation.

problem Distilling irrelevant information can hinder student model performance.
method Partial Information Decomposition to quantify and regularize task-relevant knowledge.
result RID framework leads to more resilient distillation under nuisance teachers.

Higher-order tensors have received increased attention across science and engineering. While most tensor decomposition methods are developed for a single tensor observation, scientific studies often collect side information, in the form of node features and interactions thereof, together with the tensor data. Such data…

2019-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

The study examines Fisher information matrices and neural tangent kernels for simple ReLU networks with random weights.

problem Understanding the relationship between Fisher information matrices and neural tangent kernels for 2-layer ReLU networks.
method Analyzes Fisher information matrices and neural tangent kernels for 2-layer ReLU networks with random hidden weights, focusing on spectral decomposition and eigenfunctions.
result Obtained an approximation formula for functions represented by 2-layer neural networks.

The paper explores the tradeoffs between fairness measures in machine learning.

problem The challenge of achieving all three fairness notions simultaneously in machine learning models.
method The approach uses partial information decomposition (PID) to analyze the relationships between fairness measures.
result Identifies the regions where fairness measures overlap and disagree, revealing potential tradeoffs.

A measure of neural complexity quantifies how hard it is to access information across neurons.

problem Understanding how mutual information is distributed among neurons in neural networks.
method Partial Information Decomposition (PID) to disentangle contributions of single neurons, multiple neurons, and synergistic effects.
result Representational Complexity measures the difficulty of accessing information across multiple neurons.

Paper develops a method for causal representation learning from irregular tensors.

problem Complex patterns in high-dimensional, irregular tensor data.
method Novel causal formulation and CaRTeD framework integrating temporal causal representation learning with irregular tensor decomposition.
result Framework provides theoretical guarantees and outperforms state-of-the-art techniques.

EFiGP uses Fourier and eigen-decomposition for efficient ODE parameter estimation.

problem Parameter estimation and trajectory reconstruction for noisy, sparse, nonlinear ODE systems.
method EFiGP integrates Fourier transformation and eigen-decomposition into a physics-informed Gaussian Process framework.
result EFiGP efficiently estimates ODE parameters and recovers trajectories from noisy data.

Efficient federated algorithm for calculating transportation barycenter.

problem Efficiently calculating the free-support transportation barycenter in a federated setting.
method Single-loop dual decomposition algorithm that uses only aggregated information.
result Significantly scalable and low-complexity algorithm for federated computation.

The paper explores anticipative binary information in financial markets using Brownian motion and Poisson processes.

problem Capturing anticipative information in financial markets with Brownian motion and Poisson processes.
method Using Malliavin calculus and filtration enlargement techniques, the paper computes the semimartingale decomposition of the processes.
result The paper provides the exact value of anticipative information in the pure jump case.

We present an algorithm, Decision-Directed Data Decomposition (D4), which decomposes a dataset into two components. The first contains most of the useful information for a specified supervised learning task. The second orthogonal component contains little information about the task but retains associations and informat…

2019-09-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This work introduces a bias-variance decomposition for proper scores, improving uncertainty estimation in predictive models.

problem Reliable uncertainty estimation for predictions in safety-critical applications, especially under domain drift.
method Developed a general bias-variance decomposition for proper scores, introducing the Bregman Information as the variance term.
result The decomposition provides novel formulations for different predictive tasks, including classification and model ensembles.

New metric for disentangling multivariate representations, accounting for more complex entanglements.

problem Current disentanglement metrics fail to detect entanglements involving more than two variables.
method Partial Information Decomposition framework to analyze information sharing and propose a new disentanglement metric.
result The proposed metric correctly identifies entanglements in high-dimensional spaces.

Framework fine-tunes foundation models with semi-supervised learning for downstream tasks and latent spaces.

problem Training foundation models with limited labelled data.
method Mutual information decomposition for downstream and latent spaces, semi-supervised fine-tuning.
result Significant improvements in classification tasks under low-labelled conditions.

We consider the "partial information decomposition" (PID) problem, which aims to decompose the information that a set of source random variables provide about a target random variable into separate redundant, synergistic, union, and unique components. In the first part of this paper, we propose a general framework for …

2019-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper decomposes probabilistic scores into reliability, uncertainty, and information loss.

problem Understanding the reliability and uncertainty of probabilistic predictions.
method Developed decomposition identities for proper losses, quantifying reliability, residual uncertainty, and information gain.
result A three-term identity for classification scores, revealing miscalibration, grouping term, and feature-level uncertainty.

New method uses random decompositions for high-dimensional Bayesian optimization.

problem Learning accurate decompositions for high-dimensional black-box functions.
method Data-independent random tree-based decomposition sampling.
result Random decomposition upper-confidence bound algorithm (RDUCB) yields significant empirical gains.

Proposes a method to quantify and decompose disparity in ML models, separating exempt and non-exempt components.

problem Quantifying disparity in ML models, especially when certain features are exempted due to their critical importance.
method Information-theoretic decomposition into exempt and non-exempt components, satisfying desirable properties.
result Proposes a measure of non-exempt disparity that satisfies all desirable properties, and shows impossibility results for observational measures.

In this paper we study a risk-minimizing hedging problem for a semimartingale incomplete financial market where d+1 assets are traded continuously and whose price is expressed in units of the numéraire portfolio. According to the so-called benchmark approach, we investigate the (benchmarked) risk-minimizing strategy in…

2013-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

A new multi-view clustering method using deep matrix decomposition and partition alignment.

problem Improving multi-view clustering methods to better utilize data representations and view-specific structures.
method Deep matrix decomposition for partition representations, joint use of partition representations, and alternating optimization.
result Demonstrated effectiveness on six benchmark datasets compared to state-of-the-art methods.

The paper bounds generalization error for iterative learning with bounded updates.

problem Generalization error of iterative learning algorithms with bounded updates for non-convex loss functions.
method Information-theoretic techniques, reformulating mutual information as update uncertainty, variance decomposition.
result Improved generalization error bounds for iterative learning algorithms with bounded updates.

Marginal MAP inference involves making MAP predictions in systems defined with latent variables or missing information. It is significantly more difficult than pure marginalization and MAP tasks, for which a large class of efficient and convergent variational algorithms, such as dual decomposition, exist. In this work,…

2015-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework explains neural network bias in solving differential equations.

problem Understanding and controlling the bias in PINNs for differential equations.
method Deriving an integro-differential equation from PINNs and GPR equivalence.
result PINN predictions are influenced by a kernel term reflecting architecture choices.