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R\'enyi Rate-Distortion-Perception-Privacy Tradeoff under Indirect Observation

Information Theory 2026-05-12 v1 math.IT

Abstract

We introduce a R\'enyi Rate-Distortion-Perception-Privacy (R-RDPP) framework for indirect source coding. A latent source~SS is correlated with a private attribute~UU, and the encoder observes only a noisy view~XX such that (S,U)XY(S,U) - X - Y holds at the decoder output~YY. The communication cost is measured by Sibson's α\alpha-mutual information \Ialp\Ialp, the privacy leakage by \Ibeta\Ibeta, the semantic distortion between SS and YY, and the realism constraint at the semantic marginal PSP_S. We characterize the scalar Gaussian RDPP tradeoff, revealing that standard privacy metrics inherently penalize legitimate semantic recovery. To resolve this, we introduce a conditional privacy measure that quantifies only the residual leakage. In addition, we refine the achievability bounds for α>1\alpha > 1 via the Poisson functional representation. By deriving the exact geometric-mixture distribution of the Poisson index, we obtain exact closed-form expressions for integer-order R\'enyi entropies and sharper computable bounds in regimes where the resulting expression improves the logarithmic-moment approach.

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@article{arxiv.2605.09921,
  title  = {R\'enyi Rate-Distortion-Perception-Privacy Tradeoff under Indirect Observation},
  author = {Jiahui Wei and Marios Kountouris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09921},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages 2 figures