arxivcs.LGcs.AIcs.IT2026-07-03
Towards Diverse and Comprehensive Benchmarks for Mutual Information Estimation
Alberto Foresti, Ivan Butakov, Alexander Tolmachev, Giulio Franzese, Alexey Frolov, Pietro Michiardi
Mutual information (MI) estimation is a central problem in machine learning and statistics; however, existing benchmarks typically evaluate estimators on simplified, low-dimensional distributions, leaving their performance on complex, realistic data largely unexplored. We address…