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We introduce a recursive algorithm for performing compressed sensing on streaming data. The approach consists of a) recursive encoding, where we sample the input stream via overlapping windowing and make use of the previous measurement in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-18 Nikolaos M. Freris , Orhan Öçal , Martin Vetterli

Data deduplication saves storage space by identifying and removing repeats in the data stream. Compared with traditional compression methods, data deduplication schemes are more time efficient and are thus widely used in large scale storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hao Lou , Farzad Farnoud

Sequence representations supporting queries $access$, $select$ and $rank$ are at the core of many data structures. There is a considerable gap between the various upper bounds and the few lower bounds known for such representations, and how…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Djamal Belazzougui , Gonzalo Navarro

In this thesis, we explore streaming algorithms for approximating constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs). The setup is roughly the following: A computer has limited memory space, sees a long "stream" of local constraints on a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Noah G. Singer

In this paper we exploit concepts of information theory to address the fundamental problem of identifying and defining the most suitable tools to extract, in a automatic and agnostic way, information from a generic string of characters. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Baronchelli , Emanuele Caglioti , Vittorio Loreto

We have seen significant improvements in machine translation due to the usage of deep learning. While the improvements in translation quality are impressive, the encoder-decoder architecture enables many more possibilities. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Jan Niehues

We formulate and analyze a generic sequential resource access problem arising in a variety of engineering fields, where a user disposes a number of heterogeneous computing, communication, or storage resources, each characterized by the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lin Chen , Anastasios Giovanidis , Wei Wang , Lin Shan

We consider the classic Set Cover problem in the data stream model. For $n$ elements and $m$ sets ($m\geq n$) we give a $O(1/\delta)$-pass algorithm with a strongly sub-linear $\tilde{O}(mn^{\delta})$ space and logarithmic approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Sariel Har-Peled , Piotr Indyk , Sepideh Mahabadi , Ali Vakilian

The transmission or storage of signals typically involves data compression. The final processing step in compression systems is generally an entropy coding stage, which converts symbols into a bit stream based on their probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tilo Strutz , Roman Rischke

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

Discrete speech representation learning has recently attracted increasing interest in both acoustic and semantic modeling. Existing approaches typically encode 16 kHz waveforms into discrete tokens at a rate of 25 or 50 tokens per second.…

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The problem of lossless data compression with side information available to both the encoder and the decoder is considered. The finite-blocklength fundamental limits of the best achievable performance are defined, in two different versions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Various grammar compression algorithms have been proposed in the last decade. A grammar compression is a restricted CFG deriving the string deterministically. An efficient grammar compression develops a smaller CFG by finding duplicated…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Shouhei Fukunaga , Yoshimasa Takabatake , I Tomohiro , Hiroshi Sakamoto

In this paper, we obtain fundamental $\mathcal{L}_{p}$ bounds in sequential prediction and recursive algorithms via an entropic analysis. Both classes of problems are examined by investigating the underlying entropic relationships of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

This paper performs the analysis necessary to bound the running time of known, efficient algorithms for generating all longest common subsequences. That is, we bound the running time as a function of input size for algorithms with time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ronald I. Greenberg

The problem of the universal compression of a sequence from a library of several small to moderate length sequences from similar context arises in many practical scenarios, such as the compression of the storage data and the Internet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ahmad Beirami , Faramarz Fekri

In the graph stream model of computation, an algorithm processes the edges of an input graph in one or more sequential passes while using a memory sublinear in the input size. This model poses significant challenges for constructing long…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Christian Konrad , Chhaya Trehan

Current methods which compress multisets at an optimal rate have computational complexity that scales linearly with alphabet size, making them too slow to be practical in many real-world settings. We show how to convert a compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Daniel Severo , James Townsend , Ashish Khisti , Alireza Makhzani , Karen Ullrich

In this paper, we propose a novel tensor learning and coding model for third-order data completion. Our model is to learn a data-adaptive dictionary from the given observations, and determine the coding coefficients of third-order tensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Tai-Xiang Jiang , Xi-Le Zhao , Hao Zhang , Michael K. Ng