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We study the problem of universal decoding for unknown discrete memoryless channels in the presence of erasure/list option at the decoder, in the random coding regime. Specifically, we harness a universal version of Forney's classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Wasim Huleihel , Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

A general method of source coding over expansion is proposed in this paper, which enables one to reduce the problem of compressing an analog (continuous-valued source) to a set of much simpler problems, compressing discrete sources.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Hongbo Si , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

This paper considers coding for so-called partially stuck (defect) memory cells. Such memory cells can only store partial information as some of their levels cannot be used fully due to, e.g., wearout. First, we present new constructions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Haider Al Kim , Sven Puchinger , Ludo Tolhuizen , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

This paper proposes an adaptive neural-compilation framework to address the problem of efficient program learning. Traditional code optimisation strategies used in compilers are based on applying pre-specified set of transformations that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Rudy Bunel , Alban Desmaison , Pushmeet Kohli , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

\emph{Resistive memories}, such as \emph{phase change memories} and \emph{resistive random access memories} have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their better scalability, speed, rewritability, and yet non-volatility.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Yeow Meng Chee , Michal Horovitz , Alexander Vardy , Van Khu Vu , Eitan Yaakobi

A real time coding system with lookahead consists of a memoryless source, a memoryless channel, an encoder, which encodes the source symbols sequentially with knowledge of future source symbols upto a fixed finite lookahead, d, with or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-31 Himanshu Asnani , Tsachy Weissman

Lossless floating-point time series compression is crucial for a wide range of critical scenarios. Nevertheless, it is a big challenge to compress time series losslessly due to the complex underlying layouts of floating-point values. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ruiyuan Li , Zheng Li , Yi Wu , Chao Chen , Tong Liu , Yu Zheng

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

The explosion in the volumes of data being stored online has resulted in distributed storage systems transitioning to erasure coding based schemes. Yet, the codes being deployed in practice are fairly short. In this work, we address what we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Parikshit Gopalan , Guangda Hu , Swastik Kopparty , Shubhangi Saraf , Carol Wang , Sergey Yekhanin

Adaptive Markov chains are an important class of Monte Carlo methods for sampling from probability distributions. The time evolution of adaptive algorithms depends on past samples, and thus these algorithms are non-Markovian. Although there…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Natesh S. Pillai , Aaron Smith

We use and adapt the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem from topology to derive limitations on list-replicable and globally stable learning algorithms. We further demonstrate the applicability of our methods in combinatorics and topology. We show that,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zachary Chase , Bogdan Chornomaz , Shay Moran , Amir Yehudayoff

We address the problem of constructing a fast lossless code in the case when the source alphabet is large. The main idea of the new scheme may be described as follows. We group letters with small probabilities in subsets (acting as super…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Boris Ryabko , Jaakko Astola , Karen Egiazarian

This paper investigates the problem of variable-length lossy source coding allowing a positive excess distortion probability and an overflow probability of codeword lengths. Novel one-shot achievability and converse bounds of the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Shota Saito , Hideki Yagi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

We consider a joint source channel coding (JSCC) problem in which we desire to transmit an arbitrary memoryless source over an arbitrary additive channel. We propose a mismatched coding architecture that consists of Gaussian codebooks for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Mehul Motani

Encoding data as a set of unordered strings is receiving great attention as it captures one of the basic features of DNA storage systems. However, the challenge of constructing optimal redundancy codes for this channel remained elusive. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jin Sima , Netanel Raviv , Jehoshua Bruck

Motivated by the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approach to the compression of discrete sources developed by Jalali and Weissman, we propose a lossy compression algorithm for analog sources that relies on a finite reproduction alphabet,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Dror Baron , Tsachy Weissman

Designing channel codes under low-latency constraints is one of the most demanding requirements in 5G standards. However, a sharp characterization of the performance of traditional codes is available only in the large block-length limit.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Yihan Jiang , Hyeji Kim , Himanshu Asnani , Sreeram Kannan , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

In this paper, we study the asymptotic performance of Abelian group codes for the lossy source coding problem for arbitrary discrete (finite alphabet) memoryless sources as well as the channel coding problem for arbitrary discrete (finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

In this paper we study the nonasymptotic bounds of a special Joint Source-Channel Coding system with hierarchical source, where an observable source and an unobservable indirect source are required to be reconstructed. Namely, we focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuo Shao , Chao Qi , Jincheng Dai

This paper studies an almost-lossless source-channel coding scheme in which source messages are assigned to different classes and encoded with a channel code that depends on the class index. The code performance is analyzed by means of…