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This paper deals with a universal coding problem for a certain kind of multiterminal source coding network called a generalized complementary delivery network. In this network, messages from multiple correlated sources are jointly encoded,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-02 Akisato Kimura , Tomohiko Uyematsu , Shigeaki Kuzuoka , Shun Watanabe

We approach the problem of linear network coding for multicast networks from different perspectives. We introduce the notion of the coding points of a network, which are edges of the network where messages combine and coding occurs. We give…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Sarah E. Anderson , Wael Halbawi , Nathan Kaplan , Hiram H. López , Felice Manganiello , Emina Soljanin , Judy Walker

We consider linear network error correction (LNEC) coding when errors may occur on edges of a communication network of which the topology is known. In this paper, we first revisit and explore the framework of LNEC coding, and then unify two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Xuan Guang , Raymond W. Yeung

The following \textit{network computing} problem is considered. Source nodes in a directed acyclic network generate independent messages and a single receiver node computes a target function $f$ of the messages. The objective is to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Rathinakumar Appuswamy , Massimo Franceschetti , Nikhil Karamchandani , Ken Zeger

Cinematic audio source separation is a relatively new subtask of audio source separation, with the aim of extracting the dialogue, music, and effects stems from their mixture. In this work, we developed a model generalizing the Bandsplit…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Karn N. Watcharasupat , Chih-Wei Wu , Yiwei Ding , Iroro Orife , Aaron J. Hipple , Phillip A. Williams , Scott Kramer , Alexander Lerch , William Wolcott

We study the tradeoff between the sum rate and the error probability in downlink of wireless networks. Using the recent results on the achievable rates of finite-length codewords, the problem is cast as a joint optimization of the network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Mahdi Haghifam , Mohammad Robat Mili , Behrooz Makki , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari , Tommy Svensson

Sum-rank-metric codes have wide applications in universal error correction, multishot network coding, space-time coding and the construction of partial-MDS codes for repair in distributed storage. Fundamental properties of sum-rank-metric…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Hao Chen

Consider a receiver in a multi-user network that wishes to decode several messages. Simultaneous joint typicality decoding is one of the most powerful techniques for determining the fundamental limits at which reliable decoding is possible.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Sung Hoon Lim , Chen Feng , Adriano Pastore , Bobak Nazer , Michael Gastpar

This paper studies the interpretability of neural network features from a Bayesian Gaussian view, where optimizing a cost is reaching a probabilistic bound; learning a model approximates a density that makes the bound tight and the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Bo Hu , Jose C. Principe

We study the sum capacity of multiple unicasts in wired and wireless multihop networks. With 2 source nodes and 2 sink nodes, there are a total of 4 independent unicast sessions (messages), one from each source to each sink node (this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Chenwei Wang , Tiangao Gou , Syed A. Jafar

It has been shown lately the optimality of uncoded transmission in estimating Gaussian sources over homogeneous/symmetric Gaussian multiple access channels (MAC) using multiple sensors. It remains, however, unclear whether it still holds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-27 Shuangqing Wei , Rajgopal Kannan , Sitharama Iyengar , Nageswara S. Rao

In the non-uniform sparsest cut problem, we are given a supply graph G and a demand graph D, both with the same set of nodes V. The goal is to find a cut of V that minimizes the ratio of the total capacity on the edges of G crossing the cut…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Tobias Mömke , Victor Verdugo

Random subsampling of edges is a commonly employed technique in graph algorithms, underlying a vast array of modern algorithmic breakthroughs. Unfortunately, using this technique often leads to randomized algorithms with no clear path to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Aaron Putterman , Salil Vadhan , Vadim Zaripov

In this paper, we propose a subnetwork decomposition/combination approach to investigate the single rate $2$-pair unicast problem. It is shown that the solvability of a $2$-pair unicast problem is completely determined by four specific link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-06 K. Cai , K. B. Letaief , P. Fan , R. Feng

Two kinds of approximation algorithms exist for the k-BALANCED PARTITIONING problem: those that are fast but compute unsatisfying approximation ratios, and those that guarantee high quality ratios but are slow. In this paper we prove that…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Andreas Emil Feldmann

In this monograph, we review recent advances in second-order asymptotics for lossy source coding, which provides approximations to the finite blocklength performance of optimal codes. The monograph is divided into three parts. In part I, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Lin Zhou , Mehul Motani

We design new algorithms for approximating 2CSPs on graphs with bounded threshold rank, that is, whose normalized adjacency matrix has few eigenvalues larger than $\varepsilon$, smaller than $-\varepsilon$, or both. Unlike on worst-case…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Prashanti Anderson , Samuel B. Hopkins , Amit Rajaraman , David Steurer

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art method for graph-based learning tasks. However, training GCNs at scale is still challenging, hindering both the exploration of more sophisticated GCN architectures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Cheng Wan , Youjie Li , Ang Li , Nam Sung Kim , Yingyan Lin

The performance and the decoding complexity of a novel coding scheme based on the concatenation of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes and linear random fountain codes are investigated. Differently from Raptor codes (which are based on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Francisco Lázaro , Giuliano Garrammone , Gianluigi Liva

A distributed lossy compression network with $L$ encoders and a decoder is considered. Each encoder observes a source and sends a compressed version to the decoder. The decoder produces a joint reconstruction of target signals with the mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Siyao Zhou , Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong