AI and Information Theory for High-Dimensional Biological Data

Cajal Bordeaux School of Neuroscience, 2026 — Giulio Franzese, EURECOM. Source, notebooks and Colab links: github.com/giuliofranzese/Cajal.

Lectures

• Mutual Information and Diffusion Processes — overview (MINDE, ICLR 2024)
• Relative Entropy Estimation in Function Space — trajectory inference (ICML 2026)
• Discrete Diffusion Models — information estimation for discrete data (INFO-SEDD, ICLR 2026)
• SΩI: Score-based O-Information Estimation — higher-order interactions (ICML 2024)
• TENDE: Transfer Entropy Neural Diffusion Estimation — directed information flow (AISTATS 2026)