ALICE is a foundation model that estimates mutual information (MI) without per‑distribution training. Trained only on synthetic distributions, it acts as an in‑context estimator of rectified‑flow velocity fields, producing MI via a fixed identity that integrates squared differences between joint and conditional fields. The authors validate ALICE on a challenging benchmark and demonstrate its applicability to unseen data in biology, genetics, and neuroscience, achieving performance comparable to neural estimators trained separately for each distribution.
By Giulio Franzese, Simone Rossi, Pietro Michiardi
arXiv:2606. 25188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient uncertainty quantification (UQ) is essential for trustworthy large-scale learning.
By Kun Jin, James Harrison, Jiawei Li, Sihan Liu, Jiayi Liu, Randolph Linderman, Yuening Li, Arnab Bhadury, Sourabh Prakash Bansod, Liang Liu, Jasper Snoek
arXiv:2603.05575v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: We study prediction-powered conditional inference in the setting where labeled data are scarce, unlabeled covariates are abundant, and a blac...
By Yang Sui, Jin Zhou, Hua Zhou, Xiaowu Dai
arXiv:2606. 00241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Measuring statistical dependency between high-dimensional random variables is a fundamental task in data science and machine learning.
By Zhengyang Hu, Yanzhi Chen, Hanxiang Ren, Qunsong Zeng, Youyi Zheng, Adrian Weller, Kaibin Huang, Yanchao Yang
arXiv:2605. 04847v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Uncertainty quantification (UQ) in graph neural networks (GNNs) is crucial in high-stakes domains but remains a significant challenge.
By Soyoung park, Hwanjun Song, Sungsu Lim
The paper introduces DUO, a framework for Deep Imbalanced Regression that models each prediction as a conditional Gaussian to capture instance‑level uncertainty. By decoupling mean and variance optimization, DUO enhances learning signals for tail samples and mitigates gradient coupling that hampers hard examples. A distribution‑guided contrastive learning component further refines feature representations, leading to state‑of‑the‑art performance on several visual and biological regression benchmarks.
By Juncheng Zhou, Jiaxi Lu, Weijing Zeng, Zhong Li, Hao Qi, Jingsong Cui