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The ability to discriminate similar visual stimuli is an important index of memory function. This ability is widely thought to be supported by expanding the dimensionality of relevant neural codes, such that neural representations for…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-14 Dale Zhou , Sharon Mina Noh , Nora C Harhen , Nidhi V Banavar , C. Brock Kirwan , Michael A Yassa , Aaron M Bornstein

A lossy source coding problem is studied in which a source encoder communicates with two decoders, one with and one without correlated side information with an additional constraint on the privacy of the side information at the uninformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-13 Ravi Tandon , Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

Compression of floating-point data, both lossy and lossless, is a topic of increasing interest in scientific computing. Developing and evaluating suitable compression algorithms requires representative samples of data from real-world…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Fabian Knorr , Peter Thoman , Thomas Fahringer

Over the last few years, machine learning unlocked previously infeasible features for compression, such as providing guarantees for users' privacy or tailoring compression to specific data statistics (e.g., satellite images or audio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Gergely Flamich

The problem of reconstructing a source sequence with the presence of decoder side-information that is mis-synchronized to the source due to deletions is studied in a distributed source coding framework. Motivated by practical applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

We introduce a universal quantization scheme based on random coding, and we analyze its performance. This scheme consists of a source-independent random codebook (typically_mismatched_ to the source distribution), followed by optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Rami Zamir

The following critical phenomenon was recently discovered. When a memoryless source is compressed using a variable-length fixed-distortion code, the fastest convergence rate of the (pointwise) compression ratio to the optimal $R(D)$…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-13 Amir Dembo , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We consider lossy compression of an information source when the decoder has lossless access to a correlated one. This setup, also known as the Wyner-Ziv problem, is a special case of distributed source coding. To this day, real-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Johannes Ballé , Elza Erkip

Representing a continuous-time signal by a set of samples is a classical problem in signal processing. We study this problem under the additional constraint that the samples are quantized or compressed in a lossy manner under a limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Alon Kipnis , Yonina C. Eldar , Andrea J. Goldsmith

We consider correlated and distributed sources without cooperation at the encoder. For these sources, we derive the best achievable performance in the rate-distortion sense of any distributed compressed sensing scheme, under the constraint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Giulio Coluccia , Aline Roumy , Enrico Magli

Consider the problem of estimating a latent signal from a lossy compressed version of the data when the compressor is agnostic to the relation between the signal and the data. This situation arises in a host of modern applications when data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Alon Kipnis , Stefano Rini , Andrea J. Goldsmith

The problem of statistical learning is to construct a predictor of a random variable $Y$ as a function of a related random variable $X$ on the basis of an i.i.d. training sample from the joint distribution of $(X,Y)$. Allowable predictors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Maxim Raginsky

This paper shows new general nonasymptotic achievability and converse bounds and performs their dispersion analysis for the lossy compression problem in which the compressor observes the source through a noisy channel. While this problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

This paper provides a source coding theorem for multi-dimensional information signals when, at a given instant, the distribution associated with one arbitrary component of the signal to be compressed is not known and a side information is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-24 Maël Le Treust , Samson Lasaulce

A composite source, consisting of multiple subsources and a memoryless switch, outputs one symbol at a time from the subsource selected by the switch. If some data should be encoded more accurately than other data from an information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jiakun Liu , H. Vincent Poor , Iickho Song , Wenyi Zhang

This paper investigates the problem of variable-length lossy source coding allowing a positive excess distortion probability and an overflow probability of codeword lengths. Novel one-shot achievability and converse bounds of the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Shota Saito , Hideki Yagi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Because of the vast volume of data being produced by today's scientific simulations, lossy compression allowing user-controlled information loss can significantly reduce the data size and the I/O burden. However, for large-scale cosmology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Dingewn Tao , Sheng Di , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

In this paper, we introduce new lower bounds on the distortion of scalar fixed-rate codes for lossy compression with side information available at the receiver. These bounds are derived by presenting the relevant random variables as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Avraham Reani , Neri Merhav

We present herein a scheme by which to accurately evaluate the error exponents of a lossy data compression problem, which characterize average probabilities over a code ensemble of compression failure and success above or below a critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadaaki Hosaka , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Visual data compression is shifting from human-centered reconstruction to machine-oriented representation coding. In this setting, an image is often mapped to a compact semantic embedding, which is then compressed and transmitted for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Andriy Enttsel , Vincent Corlay