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Relevant sparse codes with variational information bottleneck

NeurIPS 2016 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Annealing and divergence-based variational objectives · 60 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Replace gaussian response marginal with student-t (sparse) marginal in IBlinear IB on denoising bars task · 9x9 bar patches denoisingrelevant information I(R;Y): greater over a range of bottleneck strengthsHelped
Replace gaussian response marginal with student-t (sparse) marginal in kernel IBkernel IB on artificial occlusion task · occlusion taskperformance on occlusion reconstruction: small but significant improvementHelped
Replace gaussian response marginal with student-t (sparse) marginal in kernel IBkernel IB on USPS handwritten digit occlusion · USPS occlusionresponse distribution heavy-tailedness and decoding filtersNo clear effect
Use a null model with responses equal to input plus white noise instead of IB encoder (ablation)linear gaussian IB · denoising bars taskrelevant information I(R;Y)No clear effect

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