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 …

Partial entropy decomposition reveals higher-order information structures in human brain activity

TF Varley, M Pope, Maria Grazia… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The standard approach to modeling the human brain as a complex system is with a network,
where the basic unit of interaction is a pairwise link between two brain regions. While …

Multivariate information theory uncovers synergistic subsystems of the human cerebral cortex

TF Varley, M Pope, J Faskowitz, O Sporns - Communications biology, 2023 - nature.com
One of the most well-established tools for modeling the brain is the functional connectivity
network, which is constructed from pairs of interacting brain regions. While powerful, the …

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 …

Estimating the unique information of continuous variables

A Pakman, A Nejatbakhsh, D Gilboa… - Advances in neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The integration and transfer of information from multiple sources to multiple targets is a core
motive of neural systems. The emerging field of partial information decomposition (PID) …

Ultra-marginal feature importance: Learning from data with causal guarantees

J Janssen, V Guan, E Robeva - International conference on …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Scientists frequently prioritize learning from data rather than training the best possible
model; however, research in machine learning often prioritizes the latter. Marginal …

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 …

Self-similar growth and synergistic link prediction in technology-convergence networks: The case of intelligent transportation systems

Y Xiu, K Cao, X Ren, B Chen, WK Chan - Fractal and Fractional, 2023 - mdpi.com
Self-similar growth and fractality are important properties found in many real-world networks,
which could guide the modeling of network evolution and the anticipation of new links …