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In this paper we introduce two variational equalities of directed information, which are analogous to those of mutual information employed in the Blahut-Arimoto Algorithm (BAA). Subsequently, we introduce nonanticipative Rate Distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Photios A. Stavrou , Charalambos D. Charalambous

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü

In this paper we study the problem of characterizing and computing the nonanticipative rate distortion function (NRDF) for partially observable multivariate Gauss-Markov processes with hard mean squared error (MSE) distortion constraints.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Photios A. Stavrou , Mikael Skoglund

In lossy compression, Blau and Michaeli [5] introduced the information rate-distortion-perception (RDP) function, extending traditional rate-distortion theory by incorporating perceptual quality. More recently, this framework was expanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

Man-made communications signals are typically modelled as continuous-time (CT) wide-sense cyclostationary (WSCS) processes. As modern processing is digital, it operates on sampled versions of the CT signals. When sampling is applied to a CT…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Emeka Abakasanga , Nir Shlezinger , Ron Dabora

The additive rate-distortion function (ARDF) was developed in order to universally bound the rate loss in the Wyner-Ziv problem, and has since then been instrumental in e.g., bounding the rate loss in successive refinements, universal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-26 Jan Ostergaard , Ram Zamir

This paper derives novel results on the characterization of the the causal information rate-distortion function (IRDF) $R_{c}^{it}(D)$ for arbitrarily-distributed one-sided stationary $\kappa$-th order Markov source x(1),x(2),.... It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Milan S. Derpich , Marco A. Guerrero , Jan Østergaard

The problem of estimating the information rate distortion perception function (RDPF), which is a relevant information-theoretic quantity in goal-oriented lossy compression and semantic information reconstruction, is investigated here.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Martha V. Sourla , Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

A fundamental question in designing lossy data compression schemes is how well one can do in comparison with the rate-distortion function, which describes the known theoretical limits of lossy compression. Motivated by the empirical success…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Eric Lei , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

A general expression for the distortion rate function (DRF) of cyclostationary Gaussian processes in terms of their spectral properties is derived. This expression can be seen as the result of orthogonalization over the different components…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Alon Kipnis , Andrea J. Goldsmith , Yonina C. Eldar

In this paper, we investigate the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) of a source modeled by a Gaussian Process (GP) on a measure space $\Omega$ under mean squared error (MSE) distortion and squared Wasserstein-2 perception metrics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

The relation between rate distortion function (RDF) and Bayesian filtering theory is discussed. The relation is established by imposing a causal or realizability constraint on the reconstruction conditional distribution of the RDF, leading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Photios A. Stavrou , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Christos K. Kourtellaris

In this paper, we consider a distributed remote source coding problem, where a sequence of observations of source vectors is available at the encoder. The problem is to specify the optimal rate for encoding the observations subject to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Adel Zahedi , Jan Ostergaard , Soren Holdt Jensen , Patrick Naylor , Soren Bech

In this paper, we study the computation of the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) for discrete memoryless sources subject to a single-letter average distortion constraint and a perception constraint that belongs to the family of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

In this work we study the rate-distortion function (RDF) for lossy compression of asynchronously-sampled continuous-time (CT) wide-sense cyclostationary (WSCS) Gaussian processes with memory. As the case of synchronous sampling, i.e., when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Zikun Tan , Ron Dabora , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we study the computation of the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) for a multivariate Gaussian source under mean squared error (MSE) distortion and, respectively, Kullback-Leibler divergence, geometric Jensen-Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

The rate-distortion (RD) theory is one of the key concepts in information theory, providing theoretical limits for compression performance and guiding the source coding design, with both theoretical and practical significance. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Shitong Wu , Sicheng Xu , Lingyi Chen , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang

The rate-distortion performance of neural image compression models has exceeded the state-of-the-art for non-learned codecs, but neural codecs are still far from widespread deployment and adoption. The largest obstacle is having efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 David Minnen , Nick Johnston

This paper studies the fundamental limit of semantic communications over the discrete memoryless channel. We consider the scenario to send a semantic source consisting of an observation state and its corresponding semantic state, both of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Dongxu Li , Jianhao Huang , Chuan Huang , Xiaoqi Qin , Han Zhang , Ping Zhang

Consider the problem of estimating a latent signal from a lossy compressed version of the data when the compressor is agnostic to the relation between the signal and the data. This situation arises in a host of modern applications when data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Alon Kipnis , Stefano Rini , Andrea J. Goldsmith