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48 results for information foraging

New framework tackles deep financial reporting bottleneck by improving hallucination and coherence.

problem Statistical smoothing trap in LLMs limits deep financial reporting quality.
method DeepNews Framework integrates information foraging, schema-guided planning, and adversarial prompting.
result DeepNews system achieves 25% acceptance rate in blind test, significantly outperforming SOTA.

MAYA learns bee foraging decisions with limited memory.

problem Reproducing and predicting bees' foraging decisions with limited memory.
method Sequential imitation learning model based on multi-armed bandits, considering a temporal window τ of 7 trials.
result MAYA outperforms imitation baselines and classical models, providing interpretability and realistic trajectories.

Complex behaviors are often driven by an internal model, which integrates sensory information over time and facilitates long-term planning. Inferring an agent's internal model is a crucial ingredient in social interactions (theory of mind), for imitation learning, and for interpreting neural activities of behaving agen…

2018-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Ensembles of neural networks learn better by sharing information.

problem Improving performance of neural networks through collective learning.
method Modeling neural networks as socially interacting agents aiming to maximize their own performance and functional relations to others.
result Optimal collective performance emerges from local interactions between networks, leading to specialization and higher confidence.

The enactive approach to cognition is typically proposed as a viable alternative to traditional cognitive science. Enactive cognition displaces the explanatory focus from the internal representations of the agent to the direct sensorimotor interaction with its environment. In this paper, we investigate enactive learnin…

2018-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Analyzes Lévy flights on manifolds for finding small targets.

problem Finding small targets using Lévy flights on various manifolds.
method Analytic description of Lévy flights on closed Riemannian manifolds, including asymptotics of expected stopping time.
result Computes the expected time for finding a small target by Lévy flight on surfaces.

Ant colonies and boosting algorithms both reduce bias and variance through adaptive mechanisms.

problem Understanding the mathematical principles behind ensemble learning and ant colony behavior.
method Developed a formal mapping between AdaBoost's adaptive reweighting and ant recruitment dynamics.
result Proved that the fundamental theorem of weak learnability has a direct analog in colony decision-making.

We simplify information measure computation using learned features.

problem Computing information measures from raw data is computationally expensive.
method Developed a separable design for computing information measures from learned feature representations.
result A variety of information measures can be computed efficiently through learned feature representations.

An asymmetric information model is introduced for the situation in which there is a small agent who is more susceptible to the flow of information in the market than the general market participant, and who tries to implement strategies based on the additional information. In this model market participants have access t…

2008-07-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We study a simple model of an asset market with informed and non-informed agents. In the absence of non-informed agents, the market becomes information efficient when the number of traders with different private information is large enough. Upon introducing non-informed agents, we find that the latter contribute signif…

2010-04-28abs ↗pdf ↗

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 propose a new framework for reasoning about information in complex systems. Our foundation is based on a variational extension of Shannon's information theory that takes into account the modeling power and computational constraints of the observer. The resulting \emph{predictive V\mathcal{V}-information} encompasse…

2020-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Review of information plane analyses in neural networks, highlighting mixed results and methodological challenges.

problem Understanding the relationship between information-theoretic compression and neural network performance.
method Literature review and detailed analysis of information quantity estimation methods.
result Information plane compression is not necessarily information-theoretic but compatible with geometric compression.

Information theory provides a mathematical foundation to measure uncertainty in belief. Belief is represented by a probability distribution that captures our understanding of an outcome's plausibility. Information measures based on Shannon's concept of entropy include realization information, Kullback-Leibler divergenc…

2019-11-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In financial markets valuable information is rarely circulated homogeneously, because of time required for information to spread. However, advances in communication technology means that the 'lifetime' of important information is typically short. Hence, viewed as a tradable asset, information shares the characteristics…

2011-06-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Introduces relative information gain for improving Gaussian process regression rates.

problem Improving the sample complexity of estimating or maximizing unknown functions.
method Introduces relative information gain, interpolates between effective dimension and information gain, and proves PAC-Bayesian bounds.
result Obtains minimax-optimal rates of convergence through the relative information gain.

In information theory, Fisher information and Shannon information (entropy) are respectively used to quantify the uncertainty associated with the distribution modeling and the uncertainty in specifying the outcome of given variables. These two quantities are complementary and are jointly applied to information behavior…

2018-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

New method detects information leakage using approximate Bayes predictor.

problem Unintentional exposure of sensitive information via observable data.
method Statistical learning theory and information theory framework, approximating Bayes predictor's log-loss and accuracy.
result MI can be accurately estimated to detect ILs, outperforming state-of-the-art baselines.

Market strategies minimize Fisher information to minimize risk.

problem Applying minimum Fisher information principle to market dynamics.
method Analytical extension to quantum harmonic oscillator eigenstates and Gibbs distribution.
result Minimizing Fisher information reduces information and risk.

New approach quantifies overfitting in high-dimensional regression.

problem Quantifying and avoiding overfitting in large neural networks.
method Information bottleneck theory to minimize residual information while maximizing relevant bits.
result Characterized the relative information efficiency of randomized regression compared to optimal algorithms.

Unified notation simplifies information-theoretic concepts in machine learning.

problem Opaque notation for information-theoretic quantities in machine learning.
method Proposed a practical and unified notation for information-theoretic quantities.
result Unified notation facilitates new intuitions and rederivations in machine learning.

Study optimal portfolios for traders with asymmetric information and delay.

problem Optimizing portfolios for traders with delayed insider information.
method Anticipating stochastic calculus and white noise approach.
result Optimal portfolios maximize expected logarithmic utility under various financial models.

Strategic brokers exploit private information in broker-mediated markets, affecting informed traders' performance.

problem Strategic interactions and information leakage in broker-mediated markets.
method Study of strategic trading behavior and information leakage in a broker-mediated market.
result Brokers hold a strategic advantage over informed traders due to information leakage in trading flows.

Proposes a new method to enhance neural learning by maximizing information gain.

problem Improving neural learning by selecting key variables to maximize information gain.
method Adaptive Ensemble Kalman Filter to quantify uncertainty and maximize information gain.
result The proposed method enables the neural network to learn more effectively from stochastic systems.

Mirror descent linked to information ratio via Bayesian regret bounds.

problem Understanding stability in mirror descent and its relation to information ratio.
method Developed a connection between mirror descent and information ratio using Bayesian regret bounds.
result Mirror descent with suitable estimators and distributions achieves bounds similar to information-directed sampling.

Study shows changes in information sharing between Bitcoin markets during 2017 crash.

problem Understanding information dynamics in Bitcoin markets during the 2017 crash.
method Analysis of high-frequency market-microstructure observables using information theoretic measures.
result Temporal changes in information sharing across markets, including predictability, memory, and synchronous coupling.

Study on optimal information acquisition in Kyle model with entropy cost.

problem Optimal information acquisition in Kyle model with entropy cost.
method Continuous signals are optimal, and any signal with a logit posterior distribution yields the same ex-ante value.
result Posterior expected payoff becomes normally distributed as information acquisition cost increases.

Study on information evolution in interactive decision making using multi-armed bandits.

problem Understanding information dynamics in interactive decision making.
method Stochastic multi-armed bandit problem, focusing on optimal arm with a fixed margin.
result Distinct growth phases in mutual information, showing decoupling between success probability and information gain.

Study reveals mutual information is crucial for understanding algorithm performance in stochastic convex optimization.

problem Uncertainty in capturing the exceptional performance of learning algorithms using existing information-theoretic generalization bounds.
method Examined the relationship between mutual information and generalization in stochastic convex optimization.
result Mutual information is necessary for true risk minimization in stochastic convex optimization, indicating existing bounds fall short.

We create a formal framework for the design of informative securities in prediction markets. These securities allow a market organizer to infer the likelihood of events of interest as well as if he knew all of the traders' private signals. We consider the design of markets that are always informative, markets that are …

2012-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes methods to extract and analyze individual variable information from complex dependencies.

problem Analyzing and understanding complex dependencies between multiple variables.
method Reversible normalization and iterative dependency reduction to extract individual information, and use it for direct mutual information and multi-feature Granger causality analysis.
result Decoupling of variables to analyze their individual information and direct mutual information transfers.

There are (at least) three approaches to quantifying information. The first, algorithmic information or Kolmogorov complexity, takes events as strings and, given a universal Turing machine, quantifies the information content of a string as the length of the shortest program producing it. The second, Shannon information…

2011-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We model continuous-time information flows generated by a number of information sources that switch on and off at random times. By modulating a multi-dimensional Lévy random bridge over a random point field, our framework relates the discovery of relevant new information sources to jumps in conditional expectation mart…

2017-08-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Identifying features that leak information about sensitive attributes is a key challenge in the design of information obfuscation mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a framework to identify information-leaking features via information density estimation. Here, features whose information densities exceed a pre-defined…

2019-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗