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Discrete diffusion models have gained increasing attention for their ability to model complex distributions with tractable sampling and inference. However, the error analysis for discrete diffusion models remains less well-understood. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yinuo Ren , Haoxuan Chen , Grant M. Rotskoff , Lexing Ying

One of the most fundamental questions one can ask about a pair of random variables X and Y is the value of their mutual information. Unfortunately, this task is often stymied by the extremely large dimension of the variables. We might hope…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ryan G. James , John R. Mahoney , James P. Crutchfield

We investigate connections between information-theoretic and estimation-theoretic quantities in vector Poisson channel models. In particular, we generalize the gradient of mutual information with respect to key system parameters from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-10 Liming Wang , Miguel Rodrigues , Lawrence Carin

This paper considers a sequential estimation and sensor scheduling problem in the presence of multiple communication channels. As opposed to the classical remote estimation problem that involves one perfect (noiseless) channel and one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

This paper considers the comparison of noisy channels from the viewpoint of statistical decision theory. Various orderings are discussed, all formalizing the idea that one channel is "better" than another for information transmission. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Francesco Buscemi

We generalize a result by Carlen and Cordero-Erausquin on the equivalence between the Brascamp-Lieb inequality and the subadditivity of relative entropy by allowing for random transformations (a broadcast channel). This leads to a unified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Jingbo Liu , Thomas A. Courtade , Paul Cuff , Sergio Verdu

A relationship between the Fisher information and the characteristic function is established with the help of two inequalities. A necessary and sufficient condition for equality is found. These results are used to determine the asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-12 Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Mahesh K. Banavar , Andreas Spanias

A simple lower bound to the capacity of the discrete-time Poisson channel with average energy $\es$ is derived. The rate ${1/2}\log(1+\es)$ is shown to be the generalized mutual information of a modified minimum-distance decoder, when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-22 Alfonso Martinez

A continuous-time white Gaussian channel can be formulated using a white Gaussian noise, and a conventional way for examining such a channel is the sampling approach based on the classical Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem, where the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-19 Xianming Liu , Guangyue Han

Channel simulation involves generating a sample $Y$ from the conditional distribution $P_{Y|X}$, where $X$ is a remote realization sampled from $P_X$. This paper introduces a novel approach to approximate Gaussian channel simulation using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Szymon Kobus , Lucas Theis , Deniz Gündüz

In this paper, we first introduce the notion of channel leakage as the minimum mutual information between the channel input and channel output. As its name indicates, channel leakage quantifies the minimum information leakage to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

We suppose that a L\'evy process is observed at discrete time points. A rather general construction of minimum-distance estimators is shown to give consistent estimators of the L\'evy-Khinchine characteristics as the number of observations…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-05-29 Michael H. Neumann , Markus Reiss

Let $S$ and $\tilde S$ be two independent and identically distributed random variables, which we interpret as the signal, and let $P_1$ and $P_2$ be two communication channels. We can choose between two measurement scenarios: either we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Anastasia Kireeva , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

In this paper, fading Gaussian multiuser channels are considered. If the channel is perfectly known to the transmitter, capacity has been established for many cases in which the channels may satisfy certain information theoretic orders such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Pin-Hsun Lin , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Rafael F. Schaefer , Martin Mittelbach , Carsten R. Janda

In communications, unknown variables are usually modelled as random variables, and concepts such as independence, entropy and information are defined in terms of the underlying probability distributions. In contrast, control theory often…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Girish N. Nair

Consider the problem of estimating a random variable $X$ from noisy observations $Y = X+ Z$, where $Z$ is standard normal, under the $L^1$ fidelity criterion. It is well known that the optimal Bayesian estimator in this setting is the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Leighton P. Barnes , Alex Dytso , Jingbo Liu , H. Vincent Poor

The problem of fast point-to-point MIMO channel mutual information estimation is addressed, in the situation where the receiver undergoes unknown colored interference, whereas the channel with the transmitter is perfectly known. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Abla Kammoun , Romain Couillet , Jamal Najim , Merouane Debbah

We consider a problem of statistical mean estimation in which the samples are not observed directly, but are instead observed by a relay (``teacher'') that transmits information through a memoryless channel to the decoder (``student''), who…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yan Hao Ling , Zhouhao Yang , Jonathan Scarlett

For a family of stochastic differential equations, we investigate the asymptotic behaviors of its corresponding Picard's iteration, establishing convergence results in terms of relative entropy. Our convergence results complement the…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Tsz Hin Ng , Guangyue Han

Biochemical signal transduction, a form of molecular communication, can be modeled using graphical Markov channels with input-modulated transition rates. Such channel models are strongly non-Gaussian. In this paper we use a linear noise…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-30 Gregory R. Hessler , Andrew W. Eckford , Peter J. Thomas