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VIB is Half Bayes
Alexander A Alemi, Warren R Morningstar, Ben Poole +2
In discriminative settings such as regression and classification there are two random variables at play, the inputs X and the targets Y. Here, we demonstrate that the Variational I…
Cycles in Causal Learning
Katie Everett, Ian Fischer
In the causal learning setting, we wish to learn cause-and-effect relationships between variables such that we can correctly infer the effect of an intervention. While the differen…
Predictive Information Accelerates Learning in RL
Kuang-Huei Lee, Ian Fischer, Anthony Liu +4
The Predictive Information is the mutual information between the past and the future, I(X_past; X_future). We hypothesize that capturing the predictive information is useful in RL,…
An Unsupervised Information-Theoretic Perceptual Quality Metric
Sangnie Bhardwaj, Ian Fischer, Johannes Ballé +1
Tractable models of human perception have proved to be challenging to build. Hand-designed models such as MS-SSIM remain popular predictors of human image quality judgements due to…