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In addition to serve as platforms for dynamic spectrum access, cognitive radios can also serve as a method for improving the performance of wireless communication systems by smartly adjusting their operating parameters according to the…

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In this paper, we develop convergence analysis of a modified line search method for objective functions whose value is computed with noise and whose gradient estimates are inexact and possibly random. The noise is assumed to be bounded in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Albert S. Berahas , Liyuan Cao , Katya Scheinberg

Many neural network (NN) verification systems represent the network's input-output relation as a constraint program. Sound and complete, representations involve integer constraints, for simulating the activations. Recent works convexly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Merkouris Papamichail , Konstantinos Varsos , Giorgos Flouris , João Marques-Silva

In this paper, we provide a new approach to the analytical estimation of the bit-error rate (BER) for convolutional codes for Viterbi decoding in the binary symmetric channel (BSC). The expressions we obtained for lower and upper BER bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Anastasia Kurmukova , Fedor Ivanov , Victor Zyablov

In this paper, we study the problem of relaying a single bit over a tandem of binary-input channels, with the goal of attaining the highest possible error exponent in the exponentially decaying error probability. Our previous work gave an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yan Hao Ling , Jonathan Scarlett

The word error rate (WER) of soft-decision-decoded binary block codes rarely has closed-form. Bounding techniques are widely used to evaluate the performance of maximum-likelihood decoding algorithm. But the existing bounds are not tight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Xiaogang Chen , Hongwen Yang , Jian Gu , Hongkui Yang

While the channel capacity reflects a theoretical upper bound on the achievable information transmission rate in the limit of infinitely many bits, it does not characterise the information transfer of a given encoding routine with finitely…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-05 Sebastian Weichwald , Tatiana Fomina , Bernhard Schölkopf , Moritz Grosse-Wentrup

Consider the following unequal error protection scenario. One special message, dubbed the "red alert" message, is required to have an extremely small probability of missed detection. The remainder of the messages must keep their average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Bobak Nazer , Yanina Shkel , Stark C. Draper

This paper studies the possibility of upper bounding the position error of an estimate for range based positioning algorithms in wireless sensor networks. In this study, we argue that in certain situations when the measured distances…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Mohammad Reza Gholami , Erik G. Ström , Henk Wymeersch , Mats Rydström

Analysis of the convergence rates of modern convex optimization algorithms can be achived through binary means: analysis of emperical convergence, or analysis of theoretical convergence. These two pathways of capturing information diverge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Patrick Hop , Xinghao Pan

In this paper we develop a theory of matrix completion for the extreme case of noisy 1-bit observations. Instead of observing a subset of the real-valued entries of a matrix M, we obtain a small number of binary (1-bit) measurements…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Mark A. Davenport , Yaniv Plan , Ewout van den Berg , Mary Wootters

Several gaps and errors in [1] are identified and corrected. While accommodating these corrections, a rigours proof is given that the successive convex approximation algorithm in [1] for secrecy rate maximization (SRM) does generate an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mahdi Khojastehnia , Sergey Loyka

The detection and estimation of gravitational wave burst signals, with {\em a priori} unknown polarization waveforms, requires the use of data from a network of detectors. For determining how the data from such a network should be combined,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Soumya D. Mohanty , Malik Rakhmanov , Sergei Klimenko , Guenakh Mitselmakher

In this paper, we investigate the statistical convergence rate of a Bayesian low-rank tensor estimator. Our problem setting is the regression problem where a tensor structure underlying the data is estimated. This problem setting occurs in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-14 Taiji Suzuki

Bit error rate (BER) minimization and SNR-gap maximization, two robustness optimization problems, are solved, under average power and bit-rate constraints, according to the waterfilling policy. Under peak-power constraint the solutions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jean-Yves Baudais , Fahad Syed Muhammad , Jean-François Hélard

Recent work has shown that fast, compact low-bitwidth neural networks can be surprisingly accurate. These networks use homogeneous binarization: all parameters in each layer or (more commonly) the whole model have the same low bitwidth…

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Modulo-wrapping receivers have attracted interest in several areas of digital communications, including precoding and lattice coding. The asymptotic capacity and error performance of the modulo AWGN channel have been well established.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Gizem Tabak , Andrew Singer

In decision-making problems under uncertainty, probabilistic constraints are a valuable tool to express safety of decisions. They result from taking the probability measure of a given set of random inequalities depending on the decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Yassine Laguel , Wim van Ackooij , Jérôme Malick , Guilherme Ramalho

To reduce the resource demand of neural network (NN) inference systems, it has been proposed to use approximate memory, in which the supply voltage and the timing parameters are tuned trading accuracy with energy consumption and…

The effect of measurement errors in discriminant analysis is investigated. Given observations $Z=X+\epsilon$, where $\epsilon$ denotes a random noise, the goal is to predict the density of $X$ among two possible candidates $f$ and $g$. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Sébastien Loustau , Clément Marteau