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We present a new family of information-theoretic generalization bounds within the framework of conditional mutual information (CMI). Most of our results are established based on the leave-$m$-out (L$m$O) cross-validation error, with $m$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yang Lu , Matthias Frey , Margreta Kuijper , Jingge Zhu

Usually standard algorithms employ a loss where each error is the mere absolute difference between the true value and the prediction, in case of a regression task. In the present, we introduce several error weighting schemes that are a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Filippo Portera

In this letter, we analyse the properties of a maximum likelihood channel estimator based on the syndrome of a linear code. For the two examples of a binary symmetric channel and a binary input additive white Gaussian noise channel, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-12 Gottfried Lechner , Christoph Pacher

Csisz\'ar's channel coding theorem for multiple codebooks is generalized allowing the codeword lenghts differ across codebooks. Also in this case, for each codebook an error exponent can be achieved that equals the random coding exponent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Lóránt Farkas , Tamás Kói

In this paper, we derive the exact input/output transfer functions of the optimal a-posteriori probability channel detector for a general ISI channel with erasures. Considering three channel impulse responses of different memory as an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Mgeni Makambi Mashauri , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Michael Lentmaier

An erasure channel with a fixed alphabet size $q$, where $q \gg 1$, is studied. It is proved that over any erasure channel (with or without memory), Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) codes achieve the minimum probability of error (assuming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-06 Shervan Fashandi , Shahab Oveis Gharan , Amir K. Khandani

This paper explores the generalization characteristics of iterative learning algorithms with bounded updates for non-convex loss functions, employing information-theoretic techniques. Our key contribution is a novel bound for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jingwen Fu , Nanning Zheng

Memoryless channels with deletion errors as defined by a stochastic channel matrix allowing for bit drop outs are considered in which transmitted bits are either independently deleted with probability $d$ or unchanged with probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Mojtaba Rahmati , Tolga M. Duman

Properties of weighted averages are studied for the general case that the individual measurements are subject to hidden correlations and have asymmetric statistical as well as systematic errors. Explicit expressions are derived for an…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Schmelling

We provide a general framework for bounding the block error threshold of a linear code $C\subseteq \mathbb{F}_2^N$ over the erasure channel in terms of its bit error threshold. Our approach relies on understanding the minimum support weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Henry D. Pfister , Oscar Sprumont , Gilles Zémor

In this paper, tight upper and lower bounds are derived on the weighted sum of minimum mean-squared errors for additive Gaussian noise channels. The bounds are obtained by constraining the input distribution to be close to a Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir , Alex Dytso , H. Vincent Poor , K. G. Nagananda

While the channel capacity reflects a theoretical upper bound on the achievable information transmission rate in the limit of infinitely many bits, it does not characterise the information transfer of a given encoding routine with finitely…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-05 Sebastian Weichwald , Tatiana Fomina , Bernhard Schölkopf , Moritz Grosse-Wentrup

When information is to be transmitted over an unknown, possibly unreliable channel, an erasure option at the decoder is desirable. Using constant-composition random codes, we propose a generalization of Csiszar and Korner's Maximum Mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pierre Moulin

We consider the additive white Gaussian noise channels. We prove that the error probability of decoding tends to one exponentially for rates above the capacity and derive the optimal exponent function. We shall demonstrate that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Yasutada Oohama

Worst-case models of erasure and symmetric channels are investigated, in which the number of channel errors occurring in each sliding window of a given length is bounded. Upper and lower bounds on their zero-error capacities are derived,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-07 Amir Saberi , Farhad Farokhi , Girish N. Nair

We derive a new theoretical interpretation of the reweighted losses that are widely used for training diffusion models. Our method is based on constructing a cascade of time-dependent variational lower bounds on the data log-likelihood,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jiaxin Shi , Michalis K. Titsias

We study relationships between worst-case and random-noise properties of error correcting codes. More concretely, we consider connections between minimum distance, list decoding radius, and block error probability on noisy channels. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Donald Kougang-Yombi , Jan Hązła

In this work, the probability of an event under some joint distribution is bounded by measuring it with the product of the marginals instead (which is typically easier to analyze) together with a measure of the dependence between the two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar , Ibrahim Issa

A bilateral (i.e., upper and lower) bound on the mean-square error under a general model mismatch is developed. The bound, which is derived from the variational representation of the chi-square divergence, is applicable in the Bayesian and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Amir Weiss , Alejandro Lancho , Yuheng Bu , Gregory W. Wornell

Motivated by the learned iterative soft thresholding algorithm (LISTA), we introduce a general class of neural networks suitable for sparse reconstruction from few linear measurements. By allowing a wide range of degrees of weight-sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ekkehard Schnoor , Arash Behboodi , Holger Rauhut