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Function-correcting codes were introduced in the work "Function-Correcting Codes" (FCC) by Lenz et al. 2023, which provides a graphical representation for the problem of constructing function-correcting codes. We use this function dependent…

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We investigate the mistake-bound model of online learning with caps on the number of arithmetic operations per round. We prove general bounds on the minimum number of arithmetic operations per round that are necessary to learn an arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Jesse Geneson , Meien Li , Linus Tang

With the rise of smartphones and the internet-of-things, data is increasingly getting generated at the edge on local, personal devices. For privacy, latency and energy saving reasons, this shift is causing machine learning algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Jiaqi Li , Ross Drummond , Stephen R. Duncan

Several efforts are currently underway to decipher the connectome or parts thereof in a variety of organisms. Ascertaining the detailed physiological properties of all the neurons in these connectomes, however, is out of the scope of such…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-03 Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy , Arunava Banerjee

We propose the idea of extended networks, which is constructed by replicating the users in the two-user deterministic interference channel (DIC) and designing the interference structure among them, such that any rate that can be achieved by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Mehrdad Kiamari , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider active, semi-supervised learning in an offline transductive setting. We show that a previously proposed error bound for active learning on undirected weighted graphs can be generalized by replacing graph cut with an arbitrary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Andrew Guillory , Jeff A. Bilmes

Inspired by mobile satellite communication systems and the important and prevalent applications of computational tasks, we consider a distributed source coding model for compressing vector-linear functions, which consists of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xuan Guang , Xiufang Sun , Ruze Zhang

Network calculus (NC), particularly its min-plus branch, has been extensively utilized to construct service models and compute delay bounds for time-sensitive networks (TSNs). This paper provides a revisit to the fundamental results. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yuming Jiang

In this paper, we consider different aspects of the network functional compression problem where computation of a function (or, some functions) of sources located at certain nodes in a network is desired at receiver(s). The rate region of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Soheil Feizi , Muriel Medard

In this paper, we use entropy functions to characterise the set of rate-capacity tuples achievable with either zero decoding error, or vanishing decoding error, for general network coding problems. We show that when sources are colocated,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Terence H. Chan , Alex Grant

We define a notion of network capacity region of networks that generalizes the notion of network capacity defined by Cannons et al. and prove its notable properties such as closedness, boundedness and convexity when the finite field is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Anthony Kim , Muriel Medard

Network Calculus (NC) is a versatile analytical methodology to efficiently compute performance bounds in networked systems. The arrival and service curve abstractions allow to model diverse and heterogeneous distributed systems. The…

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This work addresses the problem of distributed computation of linearly separable functions, where a master node with access to $K$ datasets, employs $N$ servers to compute $L$ user-requested functions, each defined over the datasets.…

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Neural networks offer a computationally efficient approximation of model predictive control, but they lack guarantees on the resulting controlled system's properties. Formal certification of neural networks is crucial for ensuring safety,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Philip Sosnin , Calvin Tsay

We prove tight network topology dependent bounds on the round complexity of computing well studied $k$-party functions such as set disjointness and element distinctness. Unlike the usual case in the CONGEST model in distributed computing,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Arkadev Chattopadhyay , Michael Langberg , Shi Li , Atri Rudra

This work considers the one-shot capacity of communication networks subject to adversarial noise affecting a subset of network edges. In particular, we examine previously-established upper bounds on one-shot capacity. We introduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Allison Beemer , Alberto Ravagnani

Convolutional network-error correcting codes (CNECCs) are known to provide error correcting capability in acyclic instantaneous networks within the network coding paradigm under small field size conditions. In this work, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-08 K. Prasad , B. Sundar Rajan

Network Calculus is a theoretical model that aims at providing upper bounds of worst-case performance (such as delay or buffer occupancy). This is a mathematical framework that handles both network modeling and network analysis. As such it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anne Bouillard

A directed acyclic network is considered where all the terminals need to recover the sum of the symbols generated at all the sources. We call such a network a sum-network. It is shown that there exists a solvably (and linear solvably)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Brijesh Kumar Rai , Bikash Kumar Dey

Network calculus is an elegant theory which uses envelopes to determine the worst-case performance bounds in a network. Statistical network calculus is the probabilistic version of network calculus, which strives to retain the simplicity of…

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