Revealing the dynamics of neural information processing with multivariate information decomposition

EL Newman, TF Varley, VK Parakkattu, SP Sherrill… - Entropy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The varied cognitive abilities and rich adaptive behaviors enabled by the animal nervous
system are often described in terms of information processing. This framing raises the issue …

Quantifying & modeling multimodal interactions: An information decomposition framework

PP Liang, Y Cheng, X Fan, CK Ling… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The recent explosion of interest in multimodal applications has resulted in a wide selection
of datasets and methods for representing and integrating information from different …

A review of partial information decomposition in algorithmic fairness and explainability

S Dutta, F Hamman - Entropy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Partial Information Decomposition (PID) is a body of work within information theory that
allows one to quantify the information that several random variables provide about another …

Synergistic information supports modality integration and flexible learning in neural networks solving multiple tasks

AM Proca, FE Rosas, AI Luppi, D Bor… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Striking progress has been made in understanding cognition by analyzing how the brain is
engaged in different modes of information processing. For instance, so-called synergistic …

Gaussian partial information decomposition: Bias correction and application to high-dimensional data

P Venkatesh, C Bennett, S Gale… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent advances in neuroscientific experimental techniques have enabled us to
simultaneously record the activity of thousands of neurons across multiple brain regions …

Demystifying local and global fairness trade-offs in federated learning using partial information decomposition

F Hamman, S Dutta - arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.11333, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we present an information-theoretic perspective to group fairness trade-offs in
federated learning (FL) with respect to sensitive attributes, such as gender, race, etc …

Partial information decomposition for continuous variables based on shared exclusions: Analytical formulation and estimation

DA Ehrlich, K Schick-Poland, A Makkeh, F Lanfermann… - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Describing statistical dependencies is foundational to empirical scientific research. For
uncovering intricate and possibly nonlinear dependencies between a single target variable …

A partial information decomposition for discrete and continuous variables

K Schick-Poland, A Makkeh, AJ Gutknecht… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Conceptually, partial information decomposition (PID) is concerned with separating the
information contributions several sources hold about a certain target by decomposing the …

Dynamical independence: discovering emergent macroscopic processes in complex dynamical systems

L Barnett, AK Seth - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We introduce a notion of emergence for macroscopic variables associated with highly
multivariate microscopic dynamical processes. Dynamical independence instantiates the …

Disentanglement analysis with partial information decomposition

S Tokui, I Sato - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13753, 2021 - arxiv.org
We propose a framework to analyze how multivariate representations disentangle ground-
truth generative factors. A quantitative analysis of disentanglement has been based on …