Discovering Structure in High-Dimensional Data Through Correlation Explanation · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1406.1222/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTDiscovering Structure in High-Dimensional Data Through Correlation Explanation — mentioned by eli_gottliebhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10676925urn:hackerpapers:mention:1406.1222:10676925Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:47:58 GMT<p>Actually, there&#x27;s been a few papers showing solid theoretical progress on understanding what structure in data deep networks are learning to represent. https://github.com/gregversteeg/CorEx http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.1222 http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7404 Disclaimer: I reinvented the idea about a month or two ago, and ran into the existing papers when googling for joint entropy estimators after making some interesting graphs with hierarchical probabilistic programs. I only wish I could&#x27;ve been the first!</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1406.1222/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.LG