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In this paper, we introduce new lower bounds on the distortion of scalar fixed-rate codes for lossy compression with side information available at the receiver. These bounds are derived by presenting the relevant random variables as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Avraham Reani , Neri Merhav

Distributed algorithms are often beset by the straggler effect, where the slowest compute nodes in the system dictate the overall running time. Coding-theoretic techniques have been recently proposed to mitigate stragglers via algorithmic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Zachary Charles , Dimitris Papailiopoulos , Jordan Ellenberg

We consider the transmission of a memoryless bivariate Gaussian source over a two-user additive Gaussian multiple-access channel with unidirectional conferencing encoders. Here, prior to each transmission block, Encoder 1, which observes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Shraga I. Bross , Yaron Laufer

Recent research has shown a strong theoretical connection between variational autoencoders (VAEs) and the rate-distortion theory. Motivated by this, we consider the problem of lossy image compression from the perspective of generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Zhihao Duan , Ming Lu , Zhan Ma , Fengqing Zhu

Recovery of the sparsity pattern (or support) of an unknown sparse vector from a small number of noisy linear measurements is an important problem in compressed sensing. In this paper, the high-dimensional setting is considered. It is shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-06 Galen Reeves , Michael Gastpar

Motivated by hyper-reliable low-latency communication in 6G, we consider error control coding for short block lengths in multi-antenna fading channels. In general, the channel fading coefficients are unknown at both the transmitter and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Sai Dinesh Kancharana , Madhusudan Kumar Sinha , Arun Pachai Kannu

Sparsity-based methods are widely used in machine learning, statistics, and signal processing. There is now a rich class of structured sparsity approaches that expand the modeling power of the sparsity paradigm and incorporate constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Aleksander Mądry , Slobodan Mitrović , Ludwig Schmidt

We discuss a method for sparse signal approximation, which is based on the correlation of the target signal with a pseudo-random signal, and uses a modification of the greedy matching pursuit algorithm. We show that this approach provides…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-05-26 M. Andrecut

Compressed sensing is a technique to sample compressible signals below the Nyquist rate, whilst still allowing near optimal reconstruction of the signal. In this paper we present a theoretical analysis of the iterative hard thresholding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-06 Thomas Blumensath , Mike E. Davies

We consider the lossy quantum source coding problem where the task is to compress a given quantum source below its von Neumann entropy. Inspired by the duality connections between the rate-distortion and channel coding problems in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Touheed Anwar Atif , Mohammad Aamir Sohail , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Minimum power required to achieve a distortion-noise profile, i.e., a function indicating the maximum allowed distortion value for each noise level, is studied for the transmission of Gaussian sources over Gaussian channels under a regime…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Mohammadamin Baniasadi , Ertem Tuncel

Compressed sensing allows perfect recovery of sparse signals (or signals sparse in some basis) using only a small number of random measurements. Existing results in compressed sensing literature have focused on characterizing the achievable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Dmitry Malioutov , Sujay Sanghavi , Alan Willsky

We develop a framework that we call compressive rate estimation. We assume that the composite channel gain matrix (i.e. the matrix of all channel gains between all network nodes) is compressible which means it can be approximated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Jan Schreck , Peter Jung , Sławomir Stańczak

This paper studies cross-domain lossy compression through the lens of minimum entropy coupling (MEC) with rate and classification constraints. In this setting, an encoder observes samples from a degraded source domain, while the decoder is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nam Nguyen , Hassan Tavakoli , An Vuong , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

We consider the problem of joint source-channel coding for semantic communication from a rateless perspective, the purpose of which is to settle the balance between reliability (distortion/perception) and effectiveness (rate) of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Cheng Peng , Rulong Wang , Yong Xiao

An alternative approach to two-part 'critical compression' is presented. Whereas previous results were based on summing a lossless code at reduced precision with a lossy-compressed error or noise term, the present approach uses a similar…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2013-01-03 John Scoville

Sparse coding is a crucial subroutine in algorithms for various signal processing, deep learning, and other machine learning applications. The central goal is to learn an overcomplete dictionary that can sparsely represent a given input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-14 Thanh V. Nguyen , Raymond K. W. Wong , Chinmay Hegde

Lossy image compression is one of the most commonly used operators for digital images. Most recently proposed deep-learning-based image compression methods leverage the auto-encoder structure, and reach a series of promising results in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Yaolong Wang , Mingqing Xiao , Chang Liu , Shuxin Zheng , Tie-Yan Liu

Motivated by the question of optimal functional approximation via compressed sensing, we propose generalizations of the Iterative Hard Thresholding and the Compressive Sampling Matching Pursuit algorithms able to promote sparse in levels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Ben Adcock , Simone Brugiapaglia , Matthew King-Roskamp

A new algorithm is proposed for a) unsupervised learning of sparse representations from subsampled measurements and b) estimating the parameters required for linearly reconstructing signals from the sparse codes. We verify that the new…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2010-11-02 Guy Isely , Christopher J. Hillar , Friedrich T. Sommer