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We consider channel coding for discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) with a novel cost constraint that constrains both the mean and the variance of the cost of the codewords. We show that the maximum (asymptotically) achievable rate under the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Adeel Mahmood , Aaron B. Wagner

We study the problems of finding a shortest synchronizing word and its length for a given prefix code. This is done in two different settings: when the code is defined by an arbitrary decoder recognizing its star and when the code is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Andrew Ryzhikov , Marek Szykuła

We study the new problem of Huffman-like codes subject to individual restrictions on the code-word lengths of a subset of the source words. These are prefix codes with minimal expected code-word length for a random source where additionally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Zvi Lotker

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

The design of communication systems dedicated to machine learning tasks is one key aspect of goal-oriented communications. In this framework, this article investigates the interplay between data reconstruction and learning from the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jiahui Wei , Elsa Dupraz , Philippe Mary

For any finite discrete source, the competitive advantage of prefix code $C_1$ over prefix code $C_2$ is the probability $C_1$ produces a shorter codeword than $C_2$, minus the probability $C_2$ produces a shorter codeword than $C_1$. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Spencer Congero , Kenneth Zeger

We treat a random number generation from an i.i.d. probability distribution of $P$ to that of $Q$. When $Q$ or $P$ is a uniform distribution, the problems have been well-known as the uniform random number generation and the resolvability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Wataru Kumagai , Masahito Hayashi

Homophonic coding is a framework to reversibly convert a message into a sequence with some target distribution. This is a promising tool to generate a codeword with a biased code-symbol distribution, which is required for capacity-achieving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Junya Honda , Hirosuke Yamamoto

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

We derive the optimal exponent of the error probability of the quantum fixed-length pure state source coding in both cases of blind coding and visible coding. The optimal exponent is universally attained by Jozsa et al. (PRL, 81, 1714…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahito Hayashi

In this paper we study the adaptive prefix coding problem in cases where the size of the input alphabet is large. We present an online prefix coding algorithm that uses $O(\sigma^{1 / \lambda + \epsilon}) $ bits of space for any constants…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-11-24 Travis Gagie , Marek Karpinski , Yakov Nekrich

For many kinds of prefix-free codes there are efficient and compact alternatives to the traditional tree-based representation. Since these put the codes into canonical form, however, they can only be used when we can choose the order in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Antonio Fariña , Travis Gagie , Szymon Grabowski , Giovanni Manzini , Gonzalo Navarro , Alberto Ordóñez

New non-asymptotic random coding theorems (with error probability $\epsilon$ and finite block length $n$) based on Gallager parity check ensemble and Shannon random code ensemble with a fixed codeword type are established for discrete input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-05 En-hui Yang , Jin Meng

This paper finds new tight finite-blocklength bounds for the best achievable lossy joint source-channel code rate, and demonstrates that joint source-channel code design brings considerable performance advantage over a separate one in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

The problem of securing a network coding communication system against an eavesdropper adversary is considered. The network implements linear network coding to deliver n packets from source to each receiver, and the adversary can eavesdrop…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Danilo Silva , Frank R. Kschischang

We investigate the combination between causal/zero-delay source coding and information-theoretic secrecy. Two source coding models with secrecy constraints are considered. We start by considering zero-delay perfectly secret lossless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-20 Yonatan Kaspi , Neri Merhav

Clarke and Barron have recently shown that the Jeffreys' invariant prior of Bayesian theory yields the common asymptotic (minimax and maximin) redundancy of universal data compression in a parametric setting. We seek a possible analogue of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Christian Krattenthaler , Paul B. Slater

We collect several observations that concern variable-length coding of two-sided infinite sequences in a probabilistic setting. Attention is paid to images and preimages of asymptotically mean stationary measures defined on subsets of these…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Łukasz Dębowski

Over the last few years, machine learning unlocked previously infeasible features for compression, such as providing guarantees for users' privacy or tailoring compression to specific data statistics (e.g., satellite images or audio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Gergely Flamich

Explicit non-asymptotic upper bounds on the sizes of multiple-deletion correcting codes are presented. In particular, the largest single-deletion correcting code for $q$-ary alphabet and string length $n$ is shown to be of size at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Ankur A. Kulkarni , Negar Kiyavash