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A distributed quantum storage code maps a quantum message to N storage nodes, of arbitrary specified sizes, such that the stored message is robust to an arbitrary specified set of erasure patterns. The sizes of the storage nodes, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

Positional encoding has become a standard component in graph learning, especially for graph Transformers and other models that must distinguish structurally similar nodes, yet its fundamental identifiability remains poorly understood. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zimo Yan , Zheng Xie , Chang Liu , Yiqin Lv , Runfan Duan

We consider transmission over a general memoryless channel, with bounded decoding complexity per bit under message passing decoding. We show that the achievable rate is bounded below capacity if there is a finite success in the decoding in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Pulkit Grover

We introduce load-balanced fractional repetition (LBFR) codes, which are a strengthening of fractional repetition (FR) codes. LBFR codes have the additional property that multiple node failures can be sequentially repaired by downloading no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Alexandra Porter , Shashwat Silas , Mary Wootters

Consider a coloring of a graph such that each vertex is assigned a fraction of each color, with the total amount of colors at each vertex summing to $1$. We define the fractional defect of a vertex $v$ to be the sum of the overlaps with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Wayne Goddard , Honghai Xu

We introduce a notion of compatibility between constraint encoding and compositional structure. Phrased in the language of category theory, it is given by a "composable constraint encoding". We show that every composable constraint encoding…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Matt Wilson , Augustin Vanrietvelde

We describe a rational approach to reduce the computational and communication complexities of lossless point-to-point compression for computation with side information. The traditional method relies on building a characteristic graph with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Derya Malak

It is shown that polar coding schemes achieve the known achievable rate regions for several multi-terminal communications problems including lossy distributed source coding, multiple access channels and multiple descriptions coding. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

The index coding problem is studied from an interference alignment perspective, providing new results as well as new insights into, and generalizations of, previously known results. An equivalence is established between multiple unicast…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Hamed Maleki , Viveck R. Cadambe , Syed A. Jafar

In this paper we consider the identification (ID) via multiple access channels (MACs). In the general MAC the ID capacity region includes the ordinary transmission (TR) capacity region. In this paper we discuss the converse coding theorem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-12 Yasutada Oohama

We consider the problem of computing the capacity of a coded, multicast network over a small alphabet. We introduce a novel approach to this problem based on mixed integer programming. As an application of our approach, we recover, extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Christopher Hojny , Altan B. Kilic , Alberto Ravagnani

The randomized fixe-composition with optimal decoding error exponents are studied \cite{Raul_ISIT,Raul_journal} for the finite alphabet interference channel (IFC) with two transmitter-receiver pairs. In this paper we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Cheng Chang

A single-letter characterization is provided for the capacity region of finite-state multiple-access channels, when the channel state process is an independent and identically distributed sequence, the transmitters have access to partial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-10 Giacomo Como , Serdar Yüksel

Specifying a computational problem requires fixing encodings for input and output: encoding graphs as adjacency matrices, characters as integers, integers as bit strings, and vice versa. For such discrete data, the actual encoding is…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Donghyun Lim , Martin Ziegler

In contrast to the network coding problem wherein the sinks in a network demand subsets of the source messages, in a network computation problem the sinks demand functions of the source messages. Similarly, in the functional index coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Anindya Gupta , B. Sundar Rajan

Computational feasibility is a widespread concern that guides the framing and modeling of biological and artificial intelligence. The specification of cognitive system capacities is often shaped by unexamined intuitive assumptions about the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Federico Adolfi , Todd Wareham , Iris van Rooij

The learnability of different neural architectures can be characterized directly by computable measures of data complexity. In this paper, we reframe the problem of architecture selection as understanding how data determines the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-14 William H. Guss , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In this work, we study the problem of index coding from graph homomorphism perspective. We show that the minimum broadcast rate of an index coding problem for different variations of the problem such as non-linear, scalar, and vector index…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-01 Javad B. Ebrahimi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

Nowadays computer networks use different kind of memory whose speeds and capacities vary widely. There exist methods of a so-called caching which are intended to use the different kinds of memory in such a way that the frequently used data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Boris Ryabko

A sum-network is an instance of a network coding problem over a directed acyclic network in which each terminal node wants to compute the sum over a finite field of the information observed at all the source nodes. Many characteristics of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Ardhendu Tripathy , Aditya Ramamoorthy