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jean barbier

6 accepted papers

2022

The price of ignorance: how much does it cost to forget noise structure in low-rank matrix estimation?

NeurIPS 2022accept

We consider the problem of estimating a rank-$1$ signal corrupted by structured rotationally invariant noise, and address the following question: \emph{how well do inference algorithms perform when the noise statistics is unknown and hence Gaussian noise is assumed?} While the matched Bayes-optimal…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2020

All-or-nothing statistical and computational phase transitions in sparse spiked matrix estimation

NeurIPS 2020poster

We determine statistical and computational limits for estimation of a rank-one matrix (the spike) corrupted by an additive gaussian noise matrix, in a sparse limit, where the underlying hidden vector (that constructs the rank-one matrix) has a number of non-zero components that scales sub-linearly w…

Cited by 50SourcePDFScholar
2018

Entropy and mutual information in models of deep neural networks

NeurIPS 2018spotlight

We examine a class of stochastic deep learning models with a tractable method to compute information-theoretic quantities. Our contributions are three-fold: (i) We show how entropies and mutual informations can be derived from heuristic statistical physics methods, under the assumption that weight m…

Cited by 232SourcePDFScholar
2018

The committee machine: Computational to statistical gaps in learning a two-layers neural network

NeurIPS 2018spotlight

Heuristic tools from statistical physics have been used in the past to compute the optimal learning and generalization errors in the teacher-student scenario in multi- layer neural networks. In this contribution, we provide a rigorous justification of these approaches for a two-layers neural network…

2016

Mutual information for symmetric rank-one matrix estimation: A proof of the replica formula

NeurIPS 2016poster

Factorizing low-rank matrices has many applications in machine learning and statistics. For probabilistic models in the Bayes optimal setting, a general expression for the mutual information has been proposed using heuristic statistical physics computations, and proven in few specific cases. Here, w…

Cited by 217SourcePDFScholar