ADVERSARIAL INFORMATION BOTTLENECK STRATEGY FOR IMPROVED MACHINE LEARNING

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing machine learning, including: processing a training data instance with a task model to generate an encoding and a task model output; processing a discriminator input based on the encoding using a discriminator model to generate an estimated mutual information between the encoding and the one or more input variables of the training data instance; updating parameters of the discriminator model using a first iterative optimization algorithm to maximize a discriminator objective function based on the estimated mutual information; and updating parameters of the task model using a second iterative optimization algorithm to minimize a task objective function based on a sum of the estimated mutual information between the task model output and the one or more input variables of the training data instance and a conditional entropy between the target variable and an encoding generated by the task model.