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FMMI: Flow Matching Mutual Information Estimation

Published: November 11, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.08552v1

By: Ivan Butakov , Alexander Semenenko , Alexey Frolov and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes computers understand data better and faster.

Business Areas:
Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Software

We introduce a novel Mutual Information (MI) estimator that fundamentally reframes the discriminative approach. Instead of training a classifier to discriminate between joint and marginal distributions, we learn a normalizing flow that transforms one into the other. This technique produces a computationally efficient and precise MI estimate that scales well to high dimensions and across a wide range of ground-truth MI values.

Page Count
11 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Machine Learning (CS)