ALICE: In-context, Zero-shot, Mutual Information Estimation

arXiv:2609.34962 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/eurecom-probai/alice

Terminology

• Mutual Information — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• MINE: Mutual Information Neural Estimation
• Beyond Normal: On the Evaluation of Mutual Information Estimators
• Density estimation using Real NVP
• MINDE: Mutual Information Neural Diffusion Estimation
• Efficient Estimation of Mutual Information for Strongly Dependent Variables
• Information-Theoretic Diffusion
• Set Transformer: A Framework for Attention-based Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks
• On Variational Bounds of Mutual Information
• Hopfield Networks is All You Need
• In-context denoising with one-layer transformers: connections between attention and associative memory retrieval
• Understanding the Limitations of Variational Mutual Information Estimators
• Maximum Likelihood Training of Score-Based Diffusion Models

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