R\'enyi Rate-Distortion-Perception-Privacy Tradeoff under Indirect Observation
Abstract
We introduce a R\'enyi Rate-Distortion-Perception-Privacy (R-RDPP) framework for indirect source coding. A latent source~ is correlated with a private attribute~, and the encoder observes only a noisy view~ such that holds at the decoder output~. The communication cost is measured by Sibson's -mutual information , the privacy leakage by , the semantic distortion between and , and the realism constraint at the semantic marginal . 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 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