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The Box-Muller transform is a widely used method to generate Gaussian samples from uniform samples. Quantum amplitude encoding methods encode the multi-variate normal distribution in the amplitudes of a quantum state. This work presents the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Dinh-Long Vu , Hitomi Mori , Patrick Rebentrost

The distortion-rate performance of certain randomly-designed scalar quantizers is determined. The central results are the mean-squared error distortion and output entropy for quantizing a uniform random variable with thresholds drawn…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Vivek K Goyal

We propose an adaptive coding approach to achieve linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control with near-minimum bitrate prefix-free feedback. Our approach combines a recent analysis of a quantizer design for minimum rate LQG control with work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Travis C. Cuvelier , Takashi Tanaka , Robert W. Heath

This work introduces a novel class of channel estimators tailored for coarse quantization systems. The proposed estimators are founded on conditionally Gaussian latent generative models, specifically Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), mixture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Benedikt Fesl , Nurettin Turan , Benedikt Böck , Wolfgang Utschick

Jointly Gaussian memoryless sources are observed at N distinct terminals. The goal is to efficiently encode the observations in a distributed fashion so as to enable reconstruction of any one of the observations, say the first one, at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-14 Saurabha Tavildar , Pramod Viswanath , Aaron B. Wagner

To overcome the difficulties in determining an inverse compressor function for a Gaussian source, which appear in designing the nonlinear optimal companding quantizers and also in the nonlinear optimal companding quantization procedure, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Jelena Nikolic , Zoran Peric , Lazar Velimirovic

In this paper, communication of a Multivariate Gaussian over a Gaussian Multiple Access Channel is studied. Distributed zero-delay joint source-channel coding (JSCC) solutions to the problem are given. Both nonlinear and linear approaches…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Pål Anders Floor , Anna N. Kim , Tor A. Ramstad , Ilangko Balasingham , Niklas Wernersson , Mikael Skoglund

Distributed optimization plays an important role in modern large-scale machine learning and data processing systems by optimizing the utilization of computational resources. One of the classical and popular approaches is Local Stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Andrey Sadchikov , Savelii Chezhegov , Aleksandr Beznosikov , Alexander Gasnikov

Consider the following distributed optimization scenario. A worker has access to training data that it uses to compute the gradients while a server decides when to stop iterative computation based on its target accuracy or delay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Chung-Yi Lin , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

A distributed lossy compression network with $L$ encoders and a decoder is considered. Each encoder observes a source and sends a compressed version to the decoder. The decoder produces a joint reconstruction of target signals with the mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Siyao Zhou , Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

This paper studies fixed rate vector quantisation for noisy networked control systems (NCSs) with correlated packet dropouts. In particular, a discrete-time linear time invariant system is to be controlled over an error-prone digital…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Edwin G. W. Peters , Daniel E. Quevedo , Jan Østergaard

We prove achievability of the recently characterized quadratic Gaussian rate-distortion function (RDF) subject to the constraint that the distortion is uncorrelated to the source. This result is based on shaped dithered lattice quantization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-24 Milan S. Derpich , Jan Ostergaard , Daniel E. Quevedo

Consider a lossy compression system with $\ell$ distributed encoders and a centralized decoder. Each encoder compresses its observed source and forwards the compressed data to the decoder for joint reconstruction of the target signals under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Yizhong Wang , Li Xie , Xuan Zhang , Jun Chen

Consider a Gaussian memoryless multiple source with $m$ components with joint probability distribution known only to lie in a given class of distributions. A subset of $k \leq m$ components are sampled and compressed with the objective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Vinay Praneeth Boda

We study the problem of the reconstruction of a Gaussian field defined in [0,1] using N sensors deployed at regular intervals. The goal is to quantify the total data rate required for the reconstruction of the field with a given mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-23 Akshay Kashyap , Luis Alfonso Lastras-Montaño , Cathy Xia , Zhen Liu

Scalar quantization is the most practical and straightforward approach to signal quantization. However, it has been shown that scalar quantization of oversampled or Compressively Sensed signals can be inefficient in terms of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-18 Petros T. Boufounos

Analog signals processed in digital hardware are quantized into a discrete bit-constrained representation. Quantization is typically carried out using analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), operating in a serial scalar manner. In some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Alejandro Cohen , Nir Shlezinger , Salman Salamatian , Yonina C. Eldar , Muriel Médard

This paper addresses the design of multi-antenna precoding strategies, considering hardware limitations such as low-resolution digital-to-analog converters (DACs), which necessitate the quantization of transmitted signals. The typical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Xiuxiu Ma , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This paper considers the problem of estimating the cumulative distribution function and probability density function of a random variable using data quantized by uniform and non-uniform quantizers. A simple estimator is proposed based on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-03 Paolo Carbone , Johan Schoukens , István Kollár , Antonio Moschitta

The use of low-bit quantization has emerged as an indispensable technique for enabling the efficient training of large-scale models. Despite its widespread empirical success, a rigorous theoretical understanding of its impact on learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Dechen Zhang , Junwei Su , Difan Zou