Mutual information neural estimation

MI Belghazi, A Baratin, S Rajeshwar… - International …, 2018 - proceedings.mlr.press
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 …

Mine: mutual information neural estimation

MI Belghazi, A Baratin, S Rajeswar, S Ozair… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
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 …