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Mutual Information Neural Estimation
Mohamed Belghazi · Aristide Baratin · Sai Rajeswar · Sherjil Ozair · Yoshua Bengio · R Devon Hjelm · Aaron Courville

Fri Jul 13 09:15 AM -- 12:00 PM (PDT) @ Hall B #57
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We argue that the estimation of mutual information between high dimensional continuous random variables can be achieved by gradient descent over neural networks. We present a Mutual Information Neural Estimator (MINE) that is linearly scalable in dimensionality as well as in sample size, trainable through back-prop, and strongly consistent. We present a handful of applications on which MINE can be used to minimize or maximize mutual information. We apply MINE to improve adversarially trained generative models. We also use MINE to implement the Information Bottleneck, applying it to supervised classification; our results demonstrate substantial improvement in flexibility and performance in these settings.

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Mohamed Belghazi (MILA)
Aristide Baratin (University of Montreal)
Sai Rajeswar (University of Montreal)
Sherjil Ozair (University of Montreal)
Yoshua Bengio (Mila / U. Montreal)

Yoshua Bengio is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning. Since 1993, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the Université de Montréal. He is the founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence, the world’s largest university-based research group in deep learning. He is a member of the NeurIPS board and co-founder and general chair for the ICLR conference, as well as program director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains and is Fellow of the same institution. In 2018, Yoshua Bengio ranked as the computer scientist with the most new citations, worldwide, thanks to his many publications. In 2019, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing”, jointly with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. In 2020 he was nominated Fellow of the Royal Society of London.

R Devon Hjelm (Microsoft Research / Mila)
Aaron Courville (University of Montreal)

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