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This article shows that any type of binary data can be defined as a collection from codewords of variable length. This feature helps us to define an Injective and surjective function from the suggested codewords to the required codewords.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Parviz Gharehbagheri , Sayeed Hamid Haji Sayeed Javadi , Parvaneh Asghari , Naser Gharehbagheri

Error-correcting codes are essential for ensuring fault tolerance in modern distributed data storage systems. However, in practice, factors such as the failure rates of storage devices can vary significantly over time, resulting in changes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Haoming Shi , Weijun Fang , Yuan Gao

We consider a large-scale matrix multiplication problem where the computation is carried out using a distributed system with a master node and multiple worker nodes, where each worker can store parts of the input matrices. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Qian Yu , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

This paper deals with a universal coding problem for a certain kind of multiterminal source coding network called a generalized complementary delivery network. In this network, messages from multiple correlated sources are jointly encoded,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-02 Akisato Kimura , Tomohiko Uyematsu , Shigeaki Kuzuoka , Shun Watanabe

Non-overlapping codes are block codes that have arisen in diverse contexts of computer science and biology. Applications typically require finding non-overlapping codes with large cardinalities, but the maximum size of non-overlapping codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Lidija Stanovnik , Miha Moškon , Miha Mraz

This work studies point-to-point, multiple access, and random access lossless source coding in the finite-blocklength regime. In each scenario, a random coding technique is developed and used to analyze third-order coding performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Shuqing Chen , Michelle Effros , Victoria Kostina

In this paper, we present a new exact algorithm for counting perfect matchings, which relies on neither inclusion-exclusion principle nor tree-decompositions. For any bipartite graph of $2n$ nodes and $\Delta n$ edges such that $\Delta \geq…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Taisuke Izumi , Tadashi Wadayama

This paper provides an extensive study of the behavior of the best achievable rate (and other related fundamental limits) in variable-length lossless compression. In the non-asymptotic regime, the fundamental limits of fixed-to-variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Sergio Verdu

Model merging has shown great promise at combining expert models, but the benefit of merging is unclear when merging "generalist" models trained on many tasks. We explore merging in the context of large (~100B) models, by recycling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Muhammad Khalifa , Yi-Chern Tan , Arash Ahmadian , Tom Hosking , Honglak Lee , Lu Wang , Ahmet Üstün , Tom Sherborne , Matthias Gallé

Traditional error-correcting codes (ECCs) assume a fixed message length, but many scenarios involve ongoing or indefinite transmissions where the message length is not known in advance. For example, when streaming a video, the user should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Klim Efremenko , Or Zamir

We consider universal variable-to-fixed length compression of memoryless sources with a fidelity criterion. We design a dictionary codebook over the reproduction alphabet which is used to parse the source stream. Once a source subsequence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Nematollah Iri

This paper considers the problem of channel coding with a given (possibly suboptimal) maximum-metric decoding rule. A cost-constrained random-coding ensemble with multiple auxiliary costs is introduced, and is shown to achieve error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Jonathan Scarlett , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

This paper presents a novel convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems with non-convex constraints that restrict the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

The problem of compression in standard information theory consists of assigning codes as short as possible to numbers. Here we consider the problem of optimal coding -- under an arbitrary coding scheme -- and show that it predicts Zipf's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho , Christian Bentz , Caio Seguin

For any finite discrete source, the competitive advantage of prefix code $C_1$ over prefix code $C_2$ is the probability $C_1$ produces a shorter codeword than $C_2$, minus the probability $C_2$ produces a shorter codeword than $C_1$. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Spencer Congero , Kenneth Zeger

In this paper, the context dependence multilevel pattern matching(in short CDMPM) grammar transform is proposed; based on this grammar transform, the universal lossless data compression algorithm, CDMPM code is then developed. Moreover we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Chung-Song Kim , Chol-Hun Kim

The problem of joint detection and lossless source coding is considered. We derive asymptotically optimal decision rules for deciding whether or not a sequence of observations has emerged from a desired information source, and to compress…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

We describe a method for lossless quantum compression if the output of the information source is not known. We compute the best possible compression rate, minimizing the expected base length of the output quantum bit string (the base length…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-19 Markus Mueller , Caroline Rogers , Rajagopal Nagarajan

We introduce a new variant of variable-length source coding for sending a source over two parallel channels, one of which is costly and the other free. We give a complete solution to this problem. Next, we relate the problem to the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Niloufar Ahmadypour , Amin Gohari