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Basic techniques to prove the unconditional security of quantum cryptography are described. They are applied to a quantum key distribution protocol proposed by Bennett and Brassard in 1984. The proof considers a practical variation on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominic Mayers

There is a special type of text which the order of the rows makes no difference (e.g., a word list). To compress these special texts, the traditional lossless compression method is not the ideal choice. A new method that can achieve better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Juncai Xu , Weidong Zhang , Qingwen Ren , Xin Xie , Zhengyu Yang

One of the most famous and investigated lossless data-compression scheme is the one introduced by Lempel and Ziv about 40 years ago. This compression scheme is known as "dictionary-based compression" and consists of squeezing an input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-07 Paolo Ferragina , Igor Nitto , Rossano Venturini

Data compression algorithms typically rely on identifying repeated sequences of symbols from the original data to provide a compact representation of the same information, while maintaining the ability to recover the original data from the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Francesco Taurone , Daniel E. Lucani , Marcell Fehér , Qi Zhang

We study the compression of LLM-generated text across lossless and lossy regimes, characterizing a compression-compute frontier where more compression is possible at the cost of more compute. For lossless compression, domain-adapted LoRA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Roy Rinberg , Annabelle Michael Carrell , Simon Henniger , Nicholas Carlini , Keri Warr

Many applications require data processing to be performed on individual pieces of data which are of finite sizes, e.g., files in cloud storage units and packets in data networks. However, traditional universal compression solutions would…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Ahmad Beirami , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

The Run Length Encoding (RLE) compression method is a long standing simple lossless compression scheme which is easy to implement and achieves a good compression on input data which contains repeating consecutive symbols. In its pure form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Sven Fiergolla , Petra Wolf

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have enabled their successful application to a broad range of tasks. However, in information-intensive tasks, the prompt length can grow fast, leading to increased computational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Weronika Łajewska , Momchil Hardalov , Laura Aina , Neha Anna John , Hang Su , Lluís Màrquez

While neural lossy compression techniques have markedly advanced the efficiency of Channel State Information (CSI) compression and reconstruction for feedback in MIMO communications, efficient algorithms for more challenging and practical…

We develop novel protocols for generating loss-tolerant quantum codes; these are central for safeguarding information against qubit losses, with most crucial applications in quantum communications. Contrary to current proposals, our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Francesco Cesa , Tommaso Feri , Angelo Bassi

Traditionally, data compression deals with the problem of concisely representing a data source, e.g. a sequence of letters, for the purpose of eventual reproduction (either exact or approximate). In this work we are interested in the case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Amir Ingber , Tsachy Weissman

A popular approach to learning encoders for lossy compression is to use additive uniform noise during training as a differentiable approximation to test-time quantization. We demonstrate that a uniform noise channel can also be implemented…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-22 Eirikur Agustsson , Lucas Theis

We present a protocol for quantum cryptography in which the data obtained for mismatched bases are used in full for the purpose of quantum state tomography. Eavesdropping on the quantum channel is seriously impeded by requiring that the…

In-context learning has established itself as an important learning paradigm for Large Language Models (LLMs). In this paper, we demonstrate that LLMs can learn encoding keys in-context and perform analysis directly on encoded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Andresa Rodrigues de Campos , David Lee , Imry Kissos , Piyush Paritosh

An asymmetric preparation of the quantum states sent through a noisy channel can enable a new way to monitor and actively compensate the channel noise. The paradigm of such an asymmetric treatment of quantum information is the Bennett 1992…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Marco Lucamarini , Giovanni Di Giuseppe , David Vitali , Paolo Tombesi

Most of the world's digital data is currently encoded in a sequential form, and compression methods for sequences have been studied extensively. However, there are many types of non-sequential data for which good compression techniques are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-15 Christian Steinruecken

Despite quantum networking concepts, designs, and hardware becoming increasingly mature, there is no consensus on the optimal wavelength for free-space systems. We present an in-depth analysis of a daytime free-space quantum channel as a…

We derive upper bounds on the rate of transmission of classical information over quantum channels by block codes with a given blocklength and error probability, for both entanglement-assisted and unassisted codes, in terms of a unifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-01 William Matthews , Stephanie Wehner

In this paper, we consider fundamental communication limits over a compound channel. Covert communication in the information-theoretic context has been primarily concerned with fundamental limits when the transmitter wishes to communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We describe an algorithm computing an optimal prefix free code from $N$ unsorted positive integer weights in time linear in the number of machine words holding those weights. This algorithm takes advantage of common non-algebraic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Jérémy Barbay