What Should an Information Bottleneck Encoder Learn? Separating Representation Learning from Rate Control

arXiv:2610.36255 · cs.LG, cs.IT, math.IT · Submitted 2026-10-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.IT, math.IT

Submitted: 2026-10-26

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• Information Bottleneck — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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