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most citedLearning Representations for Neural Network-Based Classification Using the Information Bottleneck Principle

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cs.IT2017★ 19 cited

On the Information Dimension of Multivariate Gaussian Processes

Bernhard C. Geiger, Tobias Koch

The authors have recently defined the Rényi information dimension rate of a stationary stochastic process as the entropy rate of the uniform…

cs.IR2017★ 3 cited

Beyond Accuracy Optimization: On the Value of Item Embeddings for Student Job Recommendations

Emanuel Lacic, Dominik Kowald, Markus Reiter-Haas +2

In this work, we address the problem of recommending jobs to university students. For this, we explore the utilization of neural item embeddings for the task of content-based recom…

eess.SY2017★ 13 cited

A Generalized Framework for Kullback-Leibler Markov Aggregation

Rana Ali Amjad, Clemens Blöchl, Bernhard C. Geiger

This paper proposes an information-theoretic cost function for aggregating a Markov chain via a (possibly stochastic) mapping. The cost function is motivated by two objectives: 1)…

cs.SI2017★ 11 cited

Activity Archetypes in Question-and-Answer (Q&A) Websites - A Study of 50 Stack Exchange Instances

Tiago Santos, Simon Walk, Roman Kern +2

Millions of users on the Internet discuss a variety of topics on Question-and-Answer (Q&A) instances. However, not all instances and topics receive the same amount of attention, as…

cs.IT2017★ 19 cited

On the Information Dimension of Stochastic Processes

Bernhard C. Geiger, Tobias Koch

In 1959, Rényi proposed the information dimension and the -dimensional entropy to measure the information content of general random variables. This paper proposes a generalizati…

cs.IR2017★ 6 cited

Temporal Effects on Hashtag Reuse in Twitter: A Cognitive-Inspired Hashtag Recommendation Approach

Dominik Kowald, Subhash Pujari, Elisabeth Lex

Hashtags have become a powerful tool in social platforms such as Twitter to categorize and search for content, and to spread short messages across members of the social network. In…