Summary of Tighter Bounds on the Information Bottleneck with Application to Deep Learning, by Nir Weingarten et al.
Tighter Bounds on the Information Bottleneck with Application to Deep Learning
by Nir Weingarten, Zohar Yakhini, Moshe Butman, Ran Gilad-Bachrach
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Information Theory (cs.IT)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Deep learning has long been known to rely on latent representations that emerge during training. However, these representations can be influenced by factors such as the downstream task, objective function, and model parameters. This paper presents a new approach to improving the quality of these learned representations. Building upon previous work that combined deep neural networks (DNNs) with the Information Bottleneck (IB), this study introduces a tighter variational bound for the IB. This advancement can significantly enhance the robustness of classifier DNNs against adversarial attacks. Furthermore, this paper strengthens the case for the IB as a data modeling framework, highlighting its potential to revolutionize the field of deep learning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to learn about something new, and you need help understanding it better. That’s kind of like what computers do when they “learn” from data. They create a special kind of shortcut or representation that helps them make sense of things. But these shortcuts can be tricky to get right, which affects how well the computer does in the long run. This paper is about finding a way to make these shortcuts better and more reliable. It’s called the Information Bottleneck, and it’s an idea that has been around for a while but hasn’t been fully developed yet. The researchers in this study are trying to improve this idea by using special mathematical tricks to make it work better. This could lead to computers being able to learn even more effectively from data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Deep learning * Objective function
