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Main Authors: Pereg, Deborah, Wand, Michael
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11334
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author Pereg, Deborah
Wand, Michael
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Wand, Michael
contents An information-theoretic framework is introduced to analyze last-layer embedding, focusing on learned representations for regression tasks. We define representation-rate and derive limits on the reliability with which input-output information can be represented as is inherently determined by the input-source entropy. We further define representation capacity in a perturbed setting, and representation rate-distortion for a compressed output. We derive the achievable capacity, the achievable representation-rate, and their converse. Finally, we combine the results in a unified setting.
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spellingShingle Information Theoretic Perspective on Representation Learning
Pereg, Deborah
Wand, Michael
Information Theory
Machine Learning
An information-theoretic framework is introduced to analyze last-layer embedding, focusing on learned representations for regression tasks. We define representation-rate and derive limits on the reliability with which input-output information can be represented as is inherently determined by the input-source entropy. We further define representation capacity in a perturbed setting, and representation rate-distortion for a compressed output. We derive the achievable capacity, the achievable representation-rate, and their converse. Finally, we combine the results in a unified setting.
title Information Theoretic Perspective on Representation Learning
topic Information Theory
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11334