AI RESEARCH

InfoAtlas: A Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Statistical Dependence Estimate

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2606.00241v1 Announce Type: cross Measuring statistical dependency between high-dimensional random variables is a fundamental task in data science and machine learning. Neural mutual information (MI) estimators offer a promising avenue, but they typically require costly iterative optimization for each new dataset, making them impractical for real-time applications. We present InfoAtlas, a foundation model-like architecture that eliminates this bottleneck by directly inferring MI in a single forward pass.