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 # DIM
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+[UPDATE]: this work has been accepted as an oral presentation at ICLR 2019. We will be updating the code over the next few weeks to reflect recent experiments.
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 Learning Deep Representations by Mutual Information Estimation and Maximization
 
 Sample code to do the local-only objective in https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.06670