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Deep neural networks have shown incredible performance for inference tasks in a variety of domains. Unfortunately, most current deep networks are enormous cloud-based structures that require significant storage space, which limits scaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Sourya Basu , Lav R. Varshney

Perception-aware lossy source coding has attracted significant recent interest. It augments the classical distortion criterion with an explicit perception constraint, thereby enabling more refined control over fidelity and perceptual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ali Hussein , Jun Chen , Chao Tian , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We study universal decoding over unknown discrete additive channels determined by a finite-state (unifilar) random process. Aiming at low-complexity decoders, we study variants of noise-guessing decoders that use estimators for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Sheng Yang

We present a novel global compression framework for deep neural networks that automatically analyzes each layer to identify the optimal per-layer compression ratio, while simultaneously achieving the desired overall compression. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Lucas Liebenwein , Alaa Maalouf , Oren Gal , Dan Feldman , Daniela Rus

This paper studies the minimum achievable source coding rate as a function of blocklength $n$ and probability $\epsilon$ that the distortion exceeds a given level $d$. Tight general achievability and converse bounds are derived that hold at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

Transformers achieve superior performance on many tasks, but impose heavy compute and memory requirements during inference. This inference can be made more efficient by partitioning the process across multiple devices, which, in turn,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anderson de Andrade , Alon Harell , Ivan V. Bajić

We give a new approach to the dictionary learning (also known as "sparse coding") problem of recovering an unknown $n\times m$ matrix $A$ (for $m \geq n$) from examples of the form \[ y = Ax + e, \] where $x$ is a random vector in $\mathbb…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Boaz Barak , Jonathan A. Kelner , David Steurer

In this paper, we propose a new coded computing technique called "substitute decoding" for general iterative distributed computation tasks. In the first part of the paper, we use PageRank as a simple example to show that substitute decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Yaoqing Yang , Malhar Chaudhari , Pulkit Grover , Soummya Kar

Graphical data is comprised of a graph with marks on its edges and vertices. The mark indicates the value of some attribute associated to the respective edge or vertex. Examples of such data arise in social networks, molecular and systems…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Payam Delgosha , Venkat Anantharam

In lossy compression, Blau and Michaeli [5] introduced the information rate-distortion-perception (RDP) function, extending traditional rate-distortion theory by incorporating perceptual quality. More recently, this framework was expanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

This paper proposes a novel entropy encoding technique for lossless data compression. Representing a message string by its lexicographic index in the permutations of its symbols results in a compressed version matching Shannon entropy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Abu Bakar Siddique

Motivated by applications of biometric identification and content identification systems, we consider the problem of random coding for channels, where each codeword undergoes lossy compression (vector quantization), and where the decoder…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Neri Merhav

Constrained codes are used to prevent errors from occurring in various data storage and data transmission systems. They can help in increasing the storage density of magnetic storage devices, in managing the lifetime of electronic storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ahmed Hareedy , Beyza Dabak , Robert Calderbank

Learning-based lossy image compression usually involves the joint optimization of rate-distortion performance. Most existing methods adopt spatially invariant bit length allocation and incorporate discrete entropy approximation to constrain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Mu Li , Wangmeng Zuo , Shuhang Gu , Jane You , David Zhang

Many modern applications involve accessing and processing graphical data, i.e. data that is naturally indexed by graphs. Examples come from internet graphs, social networks, genomics and proteomics, and other sources. The typically large…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Payam Delgosha , Venkat Anantharam

This work is devoted to practical joint source channel coding. Although the proposed approach has more general scope, for the sake of clarity we focus on a specific application example, namely, the transmission of digital images over noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maria Fresia , Giuseppe Caire

A Viterbi-like decoding algorithm is proposed in this paper for generalized convolutional network error correction coding. Different from classical Viterbi algorithm, our decoding algorithm is based on minimum error weight rather than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Hengjie Yang , Wangmei Guo

We improve the runtime of the linear compression scheme for hidden Markov sources presented in a 2018 paper of Guruswami, Nakkiran, and Sudan. Under the previous scheme, compressing a message of length $n$ takes $O(n \log n)$ runtime, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Vincent Bian , Rachana Madhukara

Prevalent lossy image compression schemes can be divided into: 1) explicit image compression (EIC), including traditional standards and neural end-to-end algorithms; 2) implicit image compression (IIC) based on implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qi Zheng , Haozhi Wang , Zihao Liu , Jiaming Liu , Peiye Liu , Zhijian Hao , Yanheng Lu , Dimin Niu , Jinjia Zhou , Minge Jing , Yibo Fan

In distribution compression, one aims to accurately summarize a probability distribution $\mathbb{P}$ using a small number of representative points. Near-optimal thinning procedures achieve this goal by sampling $n$ points from a Markov…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-19 Abhishek Shetty , Raaz Dwivedi , Lester Mackey