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We consider theoretical limits of partial secrecy in a setting where an eavesdropper attempts to causally reconstruct an information sequence with low distortion based on an intercepted transmission and the past of the sequence. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-05 Paul Cuff

In the context of goal-oriented communications, this paper addresses the achievable rate versus generalization error region of a learning task applied on compressed data. The study focuses on the distributed setup where a source is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jiahui Wei , Philippe Mary , Elsa Dupraz

We consider the problem of recovering latent information from graphs under $\varepsilon$-edge local differential privacy where the presence of relationships/edges between two users/vertices remains confidential, even from the data curator.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Siddharth Vishwanath , Jonathan Hehir

The distortion-rate function of output-constrained lossy source coding with limited common randomness is analyzed for the special case of squared error distortion measure. An explicit expression is obtained when both source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Li Xie , Liangyan Li , Jun Chen , Zhongshan Zhang

Motivated by the lossy compression of an active-vision video stream, we consider the problem of finding the rate-distortion function of an arbitrarily varying source (AVS) composed of a finite number of subsources with known distributions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hari Palaiyanur , Cheng Chang , Anant Sahai

In the secure network coding for multicasting, there is loss of information rate due to inclusion of random bits at the source node. We show a method to eliminate that loss of information rate by using multiple statistically independent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Ryutaroh Matsumoto , Masahito Hayashi

This paper considers the joint compression of a pair of correlated sources, where the encoder is allowed to access only one of the sources. The objective is to recover both sources under separate distortion constraints for each source while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Huiyuan Yang , Yuxuan Shi , Shuo Shao , Xiaojun Yuan

One-shot achievable rate region for source coding when coded side information is available at the decoder (source coding with a helper) is proposed. The achievable region proposed is in terms of conditional smooth max Renyi entropy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

In the Wyner-Ziv source coding problem, a source $X$ has to be encoded while the decoder has access to side information $Y$. This paper investigates the indirect setup, in which a latent source $S$, unobserved by both the encoder and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jiahui Wei , Philippe Mary , Elsa Dupraz

We consider a distributed function computation problem in which parties observing noisy versions of a remote source facilitate the computation of a function of their observations at a fusion center through public communication. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Onur Günlü , Matthieu Bloch , Rafael F. Schaefer

In this paper, we consider the problem of variable packet-error coding, which emerges in network communication scenarios where a source transmits information to a destination through multiple disjoint paths. The objective is to design codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xiangliang Kong , Xin Wang , Ron M. Roth , Itzhak Tamo

We consider the problem of encoding a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a.\ individual sequence) for the degraded wiretap channel by means of an encoder and decoder that can both be implemented as finite--state machines. Our first main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Neri Merhav

The fundamental limit of natural signal compression has traditionally been characterized by classical rate-distortion (RD) theory through the tradeoff between coding rate and reconstruction distortion, while the rate-distortion-perception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zijian Liang , Kai Niu , Changshuo Wang , Jin Xu , Ping Zhang

The problem of secret-key based authentication under privacy and storage constraints on the source sequence is considered. The identifier measurement channels during authentication are assumed to be controllable via a cost-constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we address the problem of data reconstruction from privacy-protected templates, based on recent concept of sparse ternary coding with ambiguization (STCA). The STCA is a generalization of randomization techniques which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shideh Rezaeifar , Behrooz Razeghi , Olga Taran , Taras Holotyak , Slava Voloshynovskiy

We study the problem of data disclosure with privacy guarantees, wherein the utility of the disclosed data is ensured via a \emph{hard distortion} constraint. Unlike average distortion, hard distortion provides a deterministic guarantee of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Jiachun Liao , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar , Flavio P. Calmon

Transmission of a Gaussian source over a time-varying Gaussian channel is studied in the presence of time-varying correlated side information at the receiver. A block fading model is considered for both the channel and the side information,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Iñaki Estella Aguerri , Deniz Gündüz

This paper investigates a joint source-channel secrecy problem for the Shannon cipher broadcast system. We suppose list secrecy is applied, i.e., a wiretapper is allowed to produce a list of reconstruction sequences and the secrecy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Lei Yu , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

In this paper, new inner and outer bounds on the achievable compression-equivocation rate region for generalized secure data compression with side information are given that do not match in general. In this setup, two senders, Alice and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-07 Somayeh Salimi , Mahmoud Salmasizadeh , Mohammad Reza Aref

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over the broadcast channel with receiver side information under the lens of individual secrecy constraints. That is, the transmitter wants to send two independent messages to two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Aydin Sezgin