2026
Curse of Slicing: Why Sliced Mutual Information is a Deceptive Measure of Statistical Dependence
ICLR 2026poster
Sliced Mutual Information (SMI) is widely used as a scalable alternative to mutual information for measuring non-linear statistical dependence. Despite its advantages, such as faster convergence, robustness to high dimensionality, and nullification only under statistical independence, we demonstrate…