Variational information maximization in stochastic environments

Information maximization is a common framework of unsupervised learning, which may be used for extracting informative representations of the observed patterns. The key idea there is to maximize mutual information (MI), which is a formal measure of coding efficiency. Unfortunately, exact maximization...

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Main Author: Agakov, Felix
Published: University of Edinburgh 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.640222