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This paper considers a massive connectivity setting in which a base-station (BS) aims to communicate sources $(X_1,\cdots,X_k)$ to a randomly activated subset of $k$ users, among a large pool of $n$ users, via a common message in the…

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There is a plethora of data structures, algorithms, and frameworks dealing with major data-stream problems like estimating the frequency of items, answering set membership, association and multiplicity queries, and several other statistics…

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An oblivious computation is one that is free of direct and indirect information leaks, e.g., due to observable differences in timing and memory access patterns. This paper presents Lambda Obliv, a core language whose type system enforces…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-14 David Darais , Ian Sweet , Chang Liu , Michael Hicks

We show that streams and lazy data structures are a natural idiom for programming with infinite-dimensional Bayesian methods such as Poisson processes, Gaussian processes, jump processes, Dirichlet processes, and Beta processes. The crucial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Swaraj Dash , Younesse Kaddar , Hugo Paquet , Sam Staton

We study the problem of achieving average consensus between a group of agents over a network with erasure links. In the context of consensus problems, the unreliability of communication links between nodes has been traditionally modeled by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Ravi Teja Sukhavasi , Babak Hassibi

This paper considers lossy source coding of $n$-dimensional memoryless sources and shows an explicit approximation to the minimum source coding rate required to sustain the probability of exceeding distortion $d$ no greater than $\epsilon$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Victoria Kostina

In this paper, we propose a source coding scheme that represents data from unknown distributions through frequency and support information. Existing encoding schemes often compress data by sacrificing computational efficiency or by assuming…

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We analyze here in details the probability to find a given number of particles in a finite volume inside a normal or superfluid finite system. This probability, also known as counting statistics, is obtained using projection operator…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-22 Denis Lacroix , Sakir Ayik

In this paper, we consider a few iterative decoding schemes for the joint source-channel coding of correlated sources. Specifically, we consider the joint source-channel coding of two erasure correlated sources with transmission over…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-08 Arvind Yedla , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

Understanding flood probabilities is essential to making sound decisions about flood-risk management. Many people rely on flood probability maps to inform decisions about purchasing flood insurance, buying or selling real-estate,…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-22 Mahkameh Zarekarizi , K. Joel Roop-Eckart , Sanjib Sharma , Klaus Keller

Information flow analysis is a powerful technique for reasoning about the sensitive information exposed by a program during its execution. While past work has proposed information theoretic metrics (e.g., Shannon entropy, min-entropy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-09-22 Ji Zhu , Mudhakar Srivatsa

We consider a scenario of broadcasting information over a network of nodes connected by noiseless communication links. A source node in the network has some data packets to broadcast. It encodes these data packets into $n$ coded packets in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-12 B. R. Vinay Kumar , Navin Kashyap

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) have been introduced as a method to sample a diverse set of candidates in an active learning context, with a training objective that makes them approximately sample in proportion to a given reward…

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This paper investigates the performance of streaming codes in low-latency applications over a multi-link three-node relayed network. The source wishes to transmit a sequence of messages to the destination through a relay. Each message must…

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Erasure coding is a storage-efficient alternative to replication for achieving reliable data backup in distributed storage systems. During the storage process, traditional erasure codes require a unique source node to create and upload all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Lluis Pamies-Juarez , Anwitaman Datta , Frédérique Oggier

We present three algorithms with formal correctness guarantees and complexity bounds for the problem of selecting a diverse, multi-locale set of sources from ranked search results. First, we formulate weighted locale allocation as a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Faruk Alpay , Levent Sarioglu

Massively parallel Fourier transforms are widely used in computational sciences, and specifically in computational fluid dynamics which involves unbounded Poisson problems. In practice the latter is usually the most time-consuming operation…

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We address the recently suggested problem of causal lossless coding of a randomly arriving source samples. We construct variable-to-fixed coding schemes and show that they outperform the previously considered fixed-to-variable schemes when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Uri Abend , Anatoly Khina

Many proofs in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science are based on the probabilistic method. To prove the existence of a good object, we pick a random object and show that it is bad with low probability. This method is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Pat Morin , Wolfgang Mulzer , Tommy Reddad