Code for the article "The Convex Information Bottleneck Lagrangian". This code is meant to verify and obtain the figures from the article.
This is a theoretical article. An updated implementation of the "Nonlinear Information Bottleneck, 2019", from Artemy Kolchinsky, Brendan D. Tracey and David H. Wolpert in PyTorch can be found "here" and in Tensorflow "here". In the PyTorch implementation we added the possibility of using the Convex Information Bottleneck Lagrangian.
In order to be able to run the code gracefully you will need the following Python 3.6.8 packages. Probably older versions work too, but the code has been run and tested with:
You can install them easily doing:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html
python3 -m spacy download enpip3 install -r requirements_mac.txt
python3 -m spacy download enPlease follow the notebook Guide to the code and figures.ipynb in the src folder. To open it just go to the src folder and write:
jupyter notebook Guide\ to\ the\ code\ and\ figures.ipynbRun either python3 train_model.pyor python3 study_behavior.py. The arguments are the following:
usage: [-h] [--logs_dir LOGS_DIR] [--figs_dir FIGS_DIR]
[--models_dir MODELS_DIR] [--n_epochs N_EPOCHS]
[--beta BETA] [--n_betas N_BETAS]
[--beta_lim_min BETA_LIM_MIN]
[--beta_lim_max BETA_LIM_MAX]
[--u_func_name {pow,exp,shifted-exp,none}]
[--hyperparameter HYPERPARAMETER]
[--compression COMPRESSION] [--example_clusters]
[--K K] [--logvar_kde LOGVAR_KDE]
[--logvar_t LOGVAR_T]
[--sgd_batch_size SGD_BATCH_SIZE]
[--mi_batch_size MI_BATCH_SIZE] [--same_batch]
[--dataset {mnist,fashion_mnist,california_housing,trec}]
[--optimizer_name {sgd,rmsprop,adadelta,adagrad,adam,asgd}]
[--method {nonlinear_IB,variational_IB}]
[--learning_rate LEARNING_RATE]
[--learning_rate_drop LEARNING_RATE_DROP]
[--learning_rate_steps LEARNING_RATE_STEPS]
[--train_logvar_t] [--eval_rate EVAL_RATE]
[--visualize] [--verbose]
Run convex IB Lagrangian (with Pytorch)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--logs_dir LOGS_DIR folder to output the logs (default: ../results/logs/)
--figs_dir FIGS_DIR folder to output the images (default:
../results/figures/)
--models_dir MODELS_DIR
folder to save the models (default:
../results/models/)
--n_epochs N_EPOCHS number of training epochs (default: 100)
--beta BETA Lagrange multiplier (only for train_model) (default:
0.0)
--n_betas N_BETAS Number of Lagrange multipliers (only for study
behavior) (default: 50)
--beta_lim_min BETA_LIM_MIN
minimum value of beta for the study of the behavior
(default: 0.0)
--beta_lim_max BETA_LIM_MAX
maximum value of beta for the study of the behavior
(default: 1.0)
--u_func_name {pow,exp,shifted-exp,none}
monotonically increasing, strictly convex function
(default: exp)
--hyperparameter HYPERPARAMETER
hyper-parameter of the h function (e.g., alpha in the
power and eta in the exponential case) (default: 1.0)
--compression COMPRESSION
desired compression level (in bits). Only for the
shifted exponential. (default: 1.0)
--example_clusters plot example of the clusters obtained (only for study
behavior of power with alpha 1, otherwise change the
number of clusters to show) (default: False)
--K K Dimensionality of the bottleneck varaible (default: 2)
--logvar_kde LOGVAR_KDE
initial log variance of the KDE estimator (default:
-1.0)
--logvar_t LOGVAR_T initial log varaince of the bottleneck variable
(default: -1.0)
--sgd_batch_size SGD_BATCH_SIZE
mini-batch size for the SGD on the error (default:
128)
--mi_batch_size MI_BATCH_SIZE
mini-batch size for the I(X;T) estimation (default:
1000)
--same_batch use the same mini-batch for the SGD on the error and
I(X;T) estimation (default: False)
--dataset {mnist,fashion_mnist,california_housing,trec}
dataset where to run the experiments. Classification:
MNIST or Fashion MNIST. Regression: California
housing. (default: mnist)
--optimizer_name {sgd,rmsprop,adadelta,adagrad,adam,asgd}
optimizer (default: adam)
--method {nonlinear_IB,variational_IB}
information bottleneck computation method (default:
nonlinear_IB)
--learning_rate LEARNING_RATE
initial learning rate (default: 0.0001)
--learning_rate_drop LEARNING_RATE_DROP
learning rate decay rate (step LR every
learning_rate_steps) (default: 0.6)
--learning_rate_steps LEARNING_RATE_STEPS
number of steps (epochs) before decaying the learning
rate (default: 10)
--train_logvar_t train the log(variance) of the bottleneck variable
(default: False)
--eval_rate EVAL_RATE
evaluate I(X;T), I(T;Y) and accuracies every eval_rate
epochs (default: 20)
--visualize visualize the results every eval_rate epochs (default:
False)
--verbose report the results every eval_rate epochs (default:
False)