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Zhengyang Hu 0002
dblp:219/6927-2
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Information theory · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 1, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information theory › information measures › mutual information
mutual information estimation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | InfoNet: Neural Estimation of Mutual Information without Test-Time Optimization · ICML 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
simulated training · 0.8dual formulation · 0.8attention mechanism · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | InfoNet: Neural Estimation of Mutual Information without Test-Time OptimizationabstractEstimating mutual correlations between random variables or data streams is essential for intelligent behavior and decision-making. As a fundamental quantity for measuring statistical relationships, mutual information has been extensively studied and utilized for its generality and equitability. However, existing methods often lack the efficiency needed for real-time applications, such as test-time optimization of a neural network, or the differentiability required for end-to-end learning, like histograms. We introduce a neural network called InfoNet, which directly outputs mutual information estimations of data streams by leveraging the attention mechanism and the computational efficiency of deep learning infrastructures. By maximizing a dual formulation of mutual information through large-scale simulated training, our approach circumvents time-consuming test-time optimization and offers generalization ability. We evaluate the effectiveness and generalization of our proposed mutual information estimation scheme on various families of distributions and applications. Our results demonstrate that InfoNet and its training process provide a graceful efficiency-accuracy trade-off and order-preserving properties. We will make the code and models available as a comprehensive toolbox to facilitate studies in different fields requiring real-time mutual information estimation. Zhengyang Hu 0002, Song Kang, Qunsong Zeng, Kaibin Huang, Yanchao Yang 0001 |
ICML | 1 |