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Information Bottleneck: Theory and Applications in Deep Learning.

Bernhard C Geiger¹, Gernot Kubin²

¹Know-Center GmbH, Inffeldgasse 13/6, 8010 Graz, Austria.

Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)

|December 17, 2020

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The information bottleneck framework is a powerful tool for understanding complex systems. It helps distill relevant information for predictive tasks.

Keywords:

deep learning information bottleneck neural networks

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Area of Science:

Information Theory
Machine Learning
Statistical Inference

Background:

The information bottleneck (IB) framework provides a principled approach to dimensionality reduction.
It aims to find a compressed representation of an input variable that preserves maximal information about a target variable.

Discussion:

This study explores the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of the IB framework.
We analyze its performance in various machine learning tasks, including classification and regression.

Key Insights:

The IB method offers a robust way to extract salient features from high-dimensional data.
Its effectiveness is demonstrated across diverse datasets, highlighting its generalizability.

Outlook:

Future research directions include extending the IB framework to dynamic systems and deep learning architectures.
Investigating novel optimization techniques for efficient IB computation is also a key focus.