C-MI-GAN: Estimation of conditional mutual information using minmax formulation

A Mondal, A Bhattacharjee… - … on Uncertainty in …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
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 …

Diffeomorphic information neural estimation

B Duong, T Nguyen - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Mutual Information (MI) and Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) are multi-purpose
tools from information theory that are able to naturally measure the statistical dependencies …

CCMI: Classifier based conditional mutual information estimation

S Mukherjee, H Asnani… - Uncertainty in artificial …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract Conditional Mutual Information (CMI) is a measure of conditional dependence
between random variables X and Y, given another random variable Z. It can be used to …

Understanding the limitations of variational mutual information estimators

J Song, S Ermon - arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06222, 2019 - arxiv.org
Variational approaches based on neural networks are showing promise for estimating
mutual information (MI) between high dimensional variables. However, they can be difficult …

Data-efficient mutual information neural estimator

X Lin, I Sur, SA Nastase, A Divakaran… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
Measuring Mutual Information (MI) between high-dimensional, continuous, random
variables from observed samples has wide theoretical and practical applications. Recent …

Demi: Discriminative estimator of mutual information

R Liao, D Moyer, P Golland, WM Wells - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01766, 2020 - arxiv.org
Estimating mutual information between continuous random variables is often intractable and
extremely challenging for high-dimensional data. Recent progress has leveraged neural …

Neural estimators for conditional mutual information using nearest neighbors sampling

S Molavipour, G Bassi… - IEEE transactions on signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The estimation of mutual information (MI) or conditional mutual information (CMI) from a set
of samples is a longstanding problem. A recent line of work in this area has leveraged the …

Smoothed noise contrastive mutual information neural estimation

X Wang, A Al-Bashabsheh, C Zhao, C Chan - Journal of the Franklin …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Information Noise Contrastive Estimation (InfoNCE) is a popular neural estimator of
mutual information (MI). While InfoNCE has demonstrated impressive results in …

Beyond normal: On the evaluation of mutual information estimators

P Czyż, F Grabowski, J Vogt… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Mutual information is a general statistical dependency measure which has found
applications in representation learning, causality, domain generalization and computational …

Tight mutual information estimation with contrastive fenchel-legendre optimization

Q Guo, J Chen, D Wang, Y Yang… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Successful applications of InfoNCE (Information Noise-Contrastive Estimation) and
its variants have popularized the use of contrastive variational mutual information (MI) …