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The information bottleneck method is a technique for finding the best trade-off between accuracy and compression when summarizing (e.g. clustering) a random variable X when given a joint probability distribution between X and an observed variable Y.
The '''information bottleneck method''' is a technique for finding the best trade-off between [[accuracy]] and [[compression]] when summarizing (e.g. clustering) a random [[variable]] '''X''' when given a joint [[probability distribution]] between '''X''' and an observed variable '''Y'''.


==See Also==
* [[Information theory]]

==External Links==
* [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/tishby99information.html Paper by N. Tishby, et. al]
* [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/tishby99information.html Paper by N. Tishby, et. al]

* [[Information_theory]]


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Revision as of 07:49, 28 March 2004

The information bottleneck method is a technique for finding the best trade-off between accuracy and compression when summarizing (e.g. clustering) a random variable X when given a joint probability distribution between X and an observed variable Y.

See Also