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Especially in lossless image coding the obtainable compression ratio strongly depends on the amount of noise included in the data as all noise has to be coded, too. Different approaches exist for lossless image coding. We analyze the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Wolfgang Schnurrer , Jürgen Seiler , Michael Schöberl , André Kaup

This paper presents prefix codes which minimize various criteria constructed as a convex combination of maximum codeword length and average codeword length or maximum redundancy and average redundancy, including a convex combination of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-11 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous , Farzad Rezaei

Traditional error-correcting codes (ECCs) assume a fixed message length, but many scenarios involve ongoing or indefinite transmissions where the message length is not known in advance. For example, when streaming a video, the user should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Klim Efremenko , Or Zamir

We conceptualize the process of understanding as information compression, and propose a method for ranking large language models (LLMs) based on lossless data compression. We demonstrate the equivalence of compression length under…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Peijia Guo , Ziguang Li , Haibo Hu , Chao Huang , Ming Li , Rui Zhang

Quantum communications promise to revolutionise the way information is exchanged and protected. Unlike their classical counterpart, they are based on dim optical pulses that cannot be amplified by conventional optical repeaters.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 M. Minder , M. Pittaluga , G. L. Roberts , M. Lucamarini , J. F. Dynes , Z. L. Yuan , A. J. Shields

Motivated by control with communication constraints, in this work we develop a time-invariant data compression architecture for linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control with minimum bitrate prefix-free feedback. For any fixed control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Travis C. Cuvelier , Takashi Tanaka , Robert W. Heath

One of the main problems for the future of practical quantum computing is to stabilize the computation against unwanted interactions with the environment and imperfections in the applied operations. Existing proposals for quantum memories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emanuel Knill , Raymond Laflamme

An explicit algorithm for performing Schumacher's noiseless compression of quantum bits is given. This algorithm is based on a combinatorial expression for a particular bijection among binary strings. The algorithm, which adheres to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Richard Cleve , David P. DiVincenzo

Quantum memory systems are vital in quantum information processing for dependable storage and retrieval of quantum states. Inspired by classical reliability theories that synthesize reliable computing systems from unreliable components, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Anuj K. Nayak , Eric Chitambar , Lav R. Varshney

Quantum key distribution is the most well-known application of quantum cryptography. Previous proposed proofs of security of quantum key distribution contain various technical subtleties. Here, a conceptually simpler proof of security of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hoi-Kwong Lo

An alternative approach to two-part 'critical compression' is presented. Whereas previous results were based on summing a lossless code at reduced precision with a lossy-compressed error or noise term, the present approach uses a similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-01-03 John Scoville

Compression refers to encoding data using bits, so that the representation uses as few bits as possible. Compression could be lossless: i.e. encoded data can be recovered exactly from its representation) or lossy where the data is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Narayana Santhanam , Dharmendra Modha

We report an experimental demonstration of Schumacher's quantum noiseless coding theorem. Our experiment employs a sequence of single photons each of which represents three qubits. We initially prepare each photon in one of a set of 8…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Mitsumori , J. A. Vaccaro , S. M. Barnett , E. Andersson , A. Hasegawa , M. Takeoka , M. Sasaki

Traditional asymptotic information-theoretic studies of the fundamental limits of wireless communication systems primarily rely on some ideal assumptions, such as infinite blocklength and vanishing error probability. While these assumptions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Junyuan Gao , Shuao Chen , Yongpeng Wu , Liang Liu , Giuseppe Caire , H. Vincent Poor , Wenjun Zhang

How can we compress language models without sacrificing accuracy? The number of compression algorithms for language models is rapidly growing to benefit from remarkable advances of recent language models without side effects due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Seungcheol Park , Jaehyeon Choi , Sojin Lee , U Kang

In prefix coding over an infinite alphabet, methods that consider specific distributions generally consider those that decline more quickly than a power law (e.g., Golomb coding). Particular power-law distributions, however, model many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-06 Michael B. Baer

A number of questions associated with practical implementations of quantum cryptography systems having to do with unconditional secrecy, computational loads and effective secrecy rates in the presence of perfect and imperfect sources are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gilbert , M. Hamrick

One of the most important reasons of the existence of different types of files with media (audio or video) content, is achieving compression and less size, while preserving quality. In terms of fast transportation of files between equipment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Abbas Mirzaei Somarin , Mohammad Reza Deldadeh Shirin

We consider the secure quantum communication over a network with the presence of a malicious adversary who can eavesdrop and contaminate the states. The network consists of noiseless quantum channels with the unit capacity and the nodes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Seunghoan Song , Masahito Hayashi

The maximum operational range of continuous variable quantum key distribution protocols has shown to be improved by employing high-efficiency forward error correction codes. Typically, the secret key rate model for such protocols is…