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Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Nilanjana Datta , Felix Leditzky

Large Language Model (LLM) inference is typically memory-intensive, especially when processing large batch sizes and long sequences, due to the large size of key-value (KV) cache. Vector Quantization (VQ) is recently adopted to alleviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Donghyun Son , Euntae Choi , Sungjoo Yoo

The design of the channel part of a digital communication system (e.g., error correction, modulation) is heavily based on the assumption that the data to be transmitted forms a fair bit stream. However, simple source encoders such as short…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Fabian Altenbach , Georg Böcherer , Rudolf Mathar

We study the problem of compression for the purpose of similarity identification, where similarity is measured by the mean square Euclidean distance between vectors. While the asymptotical fundamental limits of the problem - the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Fabian Steiner , Steffen Dempfle , Amir Ingber , Tsachy Weissman

In this paper, we propose an enhanced quasi-maximum likelihood (EQML) decoder for LDPC codes with short block lengths. After the failure of the conventional belief propagation (BP) decoding, the proposed EQML decoder selects unreliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Peng Kang , Yixuan Xie , Lei Yang , Chen Zheng , Jinhong Yuan , Yuejun Wei

A distributed lossy compression network with $L$ encoders and a decoder is considered. Each encoder observes a source and sends a compressed version to the decoder. The decoder produces a joint reconstruction of target signals with the mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Siyao Zhou , Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across tasks, but face storage and compute challenges on edge devices. We propose EntroLLM, a compression framework combining mixed quantization and entropy coding to reduce storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Arnab Sanyal , Gourav Datta , Prithwish Mukherjee , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Michael Orshansky

Universal source coding at short blocklengths is considered for an exponential family of distributions. The \emph{Type Size} code has previously been shown to be optimal up to the third-order rate for universal compression of all memoryless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Nematollah Iri , Oliver Kosut

One-bit quantization with time-varying sampling thresholds has recently found significant utilization potential in statistical signal processing applications due to its relatively low power consumption and low implementation cost. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Arian Eamaz , Farhang Yeganegi , Deanna Needell , Mojtaba Soltanalian

In this paper, we study the use of GF(q)-quantized LDGM codes for binary source coding. By employing quantization, it is possible to obtain binary codewords with a non-uniform distribution. The obtained statistics is hence suitable for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Lorenzo Cappellari

In this paper we consider the class of anti-uniform Huffman codes and derive tight lower and upper bounds on the average length, entropy, and redundancy of such codes in terms of the alphabet size of the source. The Fibonacci distributions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-27 Soheil Mohajer , Ali Kakhbod

We study the problem of efficient compression of a stochastic source of probability distributions. It can be viewed as a generalization of Shannon's source coding problem. It has relation to the theory of common randomness, as well as to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Andreas Winter

Canonical Huffman code is an optimal prefix-free compression code whose codewords enumerated in the lexicographical order form a list of binary words in non-decreasing lengths. Gagie et al. (2015) gave a representation of this coding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Szymon Grabowski , Dominik Köppl

Huffman coding is known to be optimal, yet its dynamic version may be even more efficient in practice. A new variant of Huffman encoding has been proposed recently, that provably always performs better than static Huffman coding by at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Aharon Fruchtman , Yoav Gross , Shmuel T. Klein , Dana Shapira

A new coding scheme for image transmission over noisy channel is proposed. Similar to standard image compression, the scheme includes a linear transform followed by successive refinement scalar quantization. Unlike conventional schemes, in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Giuseppe Caire , Dariush Divsalar

Recently, low-resolution LDPC decoders have been introduced that perform mutual information maximizing signal processing. However, the optimal quantization in variable and check nodes requires expensive non-uniform operations. Instead, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Philipp Mohr , Gerhard Bauch

We consider the problem of transmission of a sequence of real data produced by a Nyquist sampled band-limited analog source over a band-limited analog channel, which introduces an additive white Gaussian noise. An analog coding scheme is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Nandakishore Santhi , Alexander Vardy

The low-noise amplification of weak microwave signals is crucial for countless protocols in quantum information processing. Quantum mechanics sets an ultimate lower limit of half a photon to the added input noise for phase-preserving…

This paper studies fixed-rate randomized vector quantization under the constraint that the quantizer's output has a given fixed probability distribution. A general representation of randomized quantizers that includes the common models in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Naci Saldi , Tamás Linder , Serdar Yüksel