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Upon compressing perceptually relevant signals, conventional quantization generally results in unnatural outcomes at low rates. We propose distribution preserving quantization (DPQ) to solve this problem. DPQ is a new quantization concept…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Minyue Li , Janusz Klejsa , W. Bastiaan Kleijn

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is essential for deploying large diffusion transformers on resource-constrained hardware, but aggressive 4-bit quantization significantly degrades generative performance. Low-rank approximation methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yann Bouquet , Alireza Khodamoradi , Sophie Yáng Shen , Kristof Denolf , Mathieu Salzmann

Even a minor boost in solving combinatorial optimization problems can greatly benefit multiple industries. Quantum computers, with their unique information processing capabilities, hold promise for delivering such enhancements. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Gabriel Marin-Sanchez , David Amaro

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are essential in computer vision but are computationally intensive, too. Model quantization, particularly to low bit-widths like 4-bit, aims to alleviate this difficulty, yet existing Post-Training Quantization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Guang Liang , Xinyao Liu , Jianxin Wu

In this monograph, we review recent advances in second-order asymptotics for lossy source coding, which provides approximations to the finite blocklength performance of optimal codes. The monograph is divided into three parts. In part I, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Lin Zhou , Mehul Motani

In this letter we study the weak-convergence properties of random variables generated by unsharp quantum measurements. More precisely, for a sequence of random variables generated by repeated unsharp quantum measurements, we study the limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Aleksandra Dimić , Borivoje Dakić

This paper studies the design and optimization of a limited feedback single-user system with multiple-antenna transmitter and single-antenna receiver. The design problem is cast in form of the minimizing the average transmission power at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Behrouz Khoshnevis , Wei Yu

Weight oscillation is an undesirable side effect of quantization-aware training, in which quantized weights frequently jump between two quantized levels, resulting in training instability and a sub-optimal final model. We discover that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Shih-Yang Liu , Zechun Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng

The number of random bits required to approximate a target distribution in terms of un-normalized informational divergence is considered. It is shown that for a variable-to-variable length encoder, this number is lower bounded by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Georg Böcherer , Rana Ali Amjad

The rapid deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) highlights the need for efficient low-bit post-training quantization (PTQ), due to their high memory costs. A key challenge in weight quantization is the presence of outliers, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xinlin Li , Osama Hanna , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

This paper investigates point-to-point information transmission over a wideband slow-fading channel, modeled as an (asymptotically) large number of independent identically distributed parallel channels, with the random channel fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-29 Wenyi Zhang , Urbashi Mitra

Neural Audio Codecs (NACs) have become increasingly adopted in speech processing tasks due to their excellent rate-distortion performance and compatibility with Large Language Models (LLMs) as discrete feature representations for audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Harry Julian , Rachel Beeson , Lohith Konathala , Johanna Ulin , Jiameng Gao

Scalar quantization is the most practical and straightforward approach to signal quantization. However, it has been shown that scalar quantization of oversampled or Compressively Sensed signals can be inefficient in terms of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-18 Petros T. Boufounos

We study quantized beamforming in wireless amplify-and-forward relay-interference networks with any number of transmitters, relays, and receivers. We design the quantizer of the channel state information to minimize the probability that at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Erdem Koyuncu , Hamid Jafarkhani

Diffusion models achieve high-quality image generation but face deployment challenges due to their high computational requirements. Although 8-bit outlier-aware post-training quantization (PTQ) matches full-precision performance, extending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Donghoon Kim , Dongyoung Lee , Ik Joon Chang , Sung-Ho Bae

The field of image generation is currently bifurcated into autoregressive (AR) models operating on discrete tokens and diffusion models utilizing continuous latents. This divide, rooted in the distinction between VQ-VAEs and VAEs, hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Bin Lin , Zongjian Li , Yuwei Niu , Kaixiong Gong , Yunyang Ge , Yunlong Lin , Mingzhe Zheng , JianWei Zhang , Miles Yang , Zhao Zhong , Liefeng Bo , Li Yuan

In this paper, we revisit the sequential source coding framework to analyze fundamental performance limitations of discrete-time stochastic control systems subject to feedback data-rate constraints in finite-time horizon. The basis of our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Photios A. Stavrou , Mikael Skoglund , Takashi Tanaka

In theory, vector quantization (VQ) is always better than scalar quantization (SQ) in terms of rate-distortion (R-D) performance. Recent state-of-the-art methods for neural image compression are mainly based on nonlinear transform coding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Runsen Feng , Zongyu Guo , Weiping Li , Zhibo Chen

We investigate energy efficient packet scheduling and power allocation problem for the services which require reliable communication to guarantee a certain quality of experience (QoE). We establish links between average transmit power and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-27 M. Majid Butt , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Nicola Marchetti

In many quantization problems, the distortion function is given by the Euclidean metric to measure the distance of a source sample to any given reproduction point of the quantizer. We will in this work regard distortion functions, which are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Jun Guo , Philipp Walk , Hamid Jafarkhani