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We show that many machine learning goals, such as improved fairness metrics, can be expressed as constraints on the model's predictions, which we call rate constraints. We study the problem of training non-convex models subject to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Andrew Cotter , Heinrich Jiang , Serena Wang , Taman Narayan , Maya Gupta , Seungil You , Karthik Sridharan

Constrained coding is a fundamental field in coding theory that tackles efficient communication through constrained channels. While channels with fixed constraints have a general optimal solution, there is increasing demand for parametric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Daniella Bar-Lev , Adir Kobovich , Orian Leitersdorf , Eitan Yaakobi

The continuous nonlinear resource allocation problem (CONRAP) has broad applications in economics, engineering, production and inventory management, and often serves as a subproblem in complex programming. Without relying on monotonicity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Kaixiang Hu , Caixia Kou , Jianhua Yuan

A converse method is developed for the source broadcast problem. Specifically, it is shown that the separation architecture is optimal for a variant of the source broadcast problem and the associated source-channel separation theorem can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Kia Khezeli , Jun Chen

A unified approach to prove the converses for the quantum channel capacity theorems is presented. These converses include the strong converse theorems for classical or quantum information transfer with error exponents and novel explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-14 Naresh Sharma , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

Communication channels are said to be underspread if their coherence time is greater than their delay spread. In such cases it can be shown that in the infinite bandwidth limit the information capacity tends to that of a channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 Steven Herbert , Ian Wassell , Tian-Hong Loh

Constrained optimization problems exist in many domains of science, such as thermodynamics, mechanics, economics, etc. These problems are classically solved with the help of the Lagrange multipliers and the Lagrangian function. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Cyril Cayron

Motivated by results in optical communications, where the performance can degrade dramatically if the transmit power is sufficiently increased, the channel capacity is characterized for various kinds of memoryless vector channels. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Erik Agrell

A fully general strong converse for channel coding states that when the rate of sending classical information exceeds the capacity of a quantum channel, the probability of correctly decoding goes to zero exponentially in the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Robert Koenig , Stephanie Wehner

We consider classical message transmission under entanglement assistance for compound memoryless and arbitrarily varying quantum channels. In both cases, we prove general coding theorems together with corresponding weak converse bounds. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Holger Boche , Gisbert Janßen , Stephan Kaltenstadler

In this paper, we study the power control problem for Over-the-air computation (AirComp) over fading channels. Our objective is to minimize the computation error by jointly optimizing the transmit power at the power-constrained devices and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Xiaowen Cao , Guangxu Zhu , Jie Xu , Kaibin Huang

We present an upper bound for the quantum channel capacity that is both additive and convex. Our bound can be interpreted as the capacity of a channel for high-fidelity quantum communication when assisted by a family of channels that have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin , Andreas Winter

This work introduces an unconventional inexact augmented Lagrangian method where the augmenting term is a Euclidean norm raised to a power between one and two. The proposed algorithm is applicable to a broad class of constrained nonconvex…

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An approach is established for maximizing the Lower bound on the Mismatch capacity (hereafter abbreviated as LM rate), a key performance bound in mismatched decoding, by optimizing the channel input probability distribution. Under a fixed…

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We prove the strong converse for the $N$-source Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC). In particular, we show that any rate tuple that can be supported by a sequence of codes with asymptotic average error probability less than one must lie…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We develop several lower bounds on the capacity of binary input symmetric output channels with synchronization errors which also suffer from other types of impairments such as substitutions, erasures, additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Mojtaba Rahmati , Tolga M. Duman

We investigate the classical capacity of two quantum channels with memory: a periodic channel with depolarizing channel branches, and a convex combination of depolarizing channels. We prove that the capacity is additive in both cases. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tony Dorlas , Ciara Morgan

We study the additivity problems for the classical capacity of quantum channels, the minimal output entropy and its convex closure. We show for each of them that additivity for arbitrary pairs of channels holds iff it holds for arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-21 Motohisa Fukuda , Michael M. Wolf

Establishing the strong converse theorem for a communication channel confirms that the capacity of that channel, that is, the maximum achievable rate of reliable information communication, is the ultimate limit of communication over that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-29 Tony Dorlas , Ciara Morgan

Non-convex functional constrained optimization problems have gained substantial attention in machine learning and data science, addressing broad requirements that typically go beyond the often performance-centric objectives. An influential…

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