Analytic Mutual Information in Bayesian Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.09815v1
• Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:30:54 GMT
• Title: Analytic Mutual Information in Bayesian Neural Networks
• Authors: Jae Oh Woo
• Abstract summary: Mutual information is an example of an uncertainty measure in a Bayesian neural network to quantify uncertainty. We derive the analytical formula of the mutual information between model parameters and the predictive output by leveraging the notion of the point process entropy. As an application, we discuss the estimation of the Dirichlet parameters and show its practical application in the active learning uncertainty measures.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Bayesian neural networks have successfully designed and optimized a robust neural network model in many application problems, including uncertainty quantification. However, with its recent success, information-theoretic understanding about the Bayesian neural network is still at an early stage. Mutual information is an example of an uncertainty measure in a Bayesian neural network to quantify epistemic uncertainty. Still, no analytic formula is known to describe it, one of the fundamental information measures to understand the Bayesian deep learning framework. In this paper, with the Dirichlet distribution assumption in its intermediate encoded message, we derive the analytical formula of the mutual information between model parameters and the predictive output by leveraging the notion of the point process entropy. Then, as an application, we discuss the estimation of the Dirichlet parameters and show its practical application in the active learning uncertainty measures.

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