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We investigate the asymptotic density of error-correcting codes with good distance properties and prescribed linearity degree, including sublinear and nonlinear codes. We focus on the general setting of finite translation-invariant metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Anina Gruica , Anna-Lena Horlemann , Alberto Ravagnani , Nadja Willenborg

This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information theory. The main goal is to further refine characterizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Felix Leditzky

Consider a lossy compression system with $\ell$ distributed encoders and a centralized decoder. Each encoder compresses its observed source and forwards the compressed data to the decoder for joint reconstruction of the target signals under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Yizhong Wang , Li Xie , Xuan Zhang , Jun Chen

Practical quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols require a finite-size security proof. The phase error correction (PEC) approach is one of the general strategies for security analyses that has successfully proved finite-size security for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Takaya Matsuura , Shinichiro Yamano , Yui Kuramochi , Toshihiko Sasaki , Masato Koashi

Many applications require data processing to be performed on individual pieces of data which are of finite sizes, e.g., files in cloud storage units and packets in data networks. However, traditional universal compression solutions would…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Ahmad Beirami , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

Latent variable models have been successfully applied in lossless compression with the bits-back coding algorithm. However, bits-back suffers from an increase in the bitrate equal to the KL divergence between the approximate posterior and…

This paper investigates achievable information rates and error exponents of mismatched decoding when the channel belongs to the class of channels that are close to the decoding metric in terms of relative entropy. For both discrete- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Priyanka Patel , Francesc Molina , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

We consider data transmission across discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) using variable-length codes with feedback. We consider the family of such codes whose rates are $\rho_N$ below the channel capacity $C$, where $\rho_N$ is a positive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Lan V. Truong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

The compression-complexity trade-off of lossy compression algorithms that are based on a random codebook or a random database is examined. Motivated, in part, by recent results of Gupta-Verd\'{u}-Weissman (GVW) and their underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-23 Chris Gioran , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

This paper addresses the topic of robust Bayesian compressed sensing over finite fields. For stationary and ergodic sources, it provides asymptotic (with the size of the vector to estimate) necessary and sufficient conditions on the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Wenjie Li , Francesca Bassi , Michel Kieffer

This thesis concerns sequential-access data compression, i.e., by algorithms that read the input one or more times from beginning to end. In one chapter we consider adaptive prefix coding, for which we must read the input character by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-03 Travis Gagie

An elementary proof is provided of sharp bounds for the varentropy of random vectors with log-concave densities, as well as for deviations of the information content from its mean. These bounds significantly improve on the bounds obtained…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Matthieu Fradelizi , Mokshay Madiman , Liyao Wang

Variable kernel density estimation allows the approximation of a probability density by the mean of differently stretched and rotated kernels centered at given sampling points $y_n\in\mathbb{R}^d,\ n=1,\dots,N$. Up to now, the choice of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Ilja Klebanov

Finite state space hidden Markov models are flexible tools to model phenomena with complex time dependencies: any process distribution can be approximated by a hidden Markov model with enough hidden states.We consider the problem of…

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This paper deals with the computation of a non-asymptotic lower bound by means of the nonanticipative rate-distortion function (NRDF) on the discrete-time zero-delay variable-rate lossy compression problem for discrete Markov sources with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zixuan He , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou

Neural compression has brought tremendous progress in designing lossy compressors with good rate-distortion (RD) performance at low complexity. Thus far, neural compression design involves transforming the source to a latent vector, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Eric Lei , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Consider the set of source distributions within a fixed maximum relative entropy with respect to a given nominal distribution. Lossless source coding over this relative entropy ball can be approached in more than one way. A problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Michael B. Baer , Farzad Rezaei , Charalambos D. Charalambous

Modern data compression methods are slowly reaching their limits after 80 years of research, millions of papers, and wide range of applications. Yet, the extravagant 6G communication speed requirement raises a major open question for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Ziguang Li , Chao Huang , Xuliang Wang , Haibo Hu , Cole Wyeth , Dongbo Bu , Quan Yu , Wen Gao , Xingwu Liu , Ming Li

In order to compress quantum messages without loss of information it is necessary to allow the length of the encoded messages to vary. We develop a general framework for variable-length quantum messages in close analogy to the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kim Bostroem , Timo Felbinger