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This paper investigates compression of data encrypted with block ciphers, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). It is shown that such data can be feasibly compressed without knowledge of the secret key. Block ciphers operating in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-10 Demijan Klinc , Carmit Hazay , Ashish Jagmohan , Hugo Krawczyk , Tal Rabin

The rapid growth of digital data has heightened the demand for efficient lossless compression methods. However, existing algorithms exhibit trade-offs: some achieve high compression ratios, others excel in encoding or decoding speed, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Md. Atiqur Rahman , MM Fazle Rabbi

In a system that performs both encryption and lossy compression, the conventional way is to compress first and then encrypt the compressed data. This separation approach proves to be optimal. In certain applications where sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Wei Kang , Nan Liu

Ensemble methods are among the state-of-the-art predictive modeling approaches. Applied to modern big data, these methods often require a large number of sub-learners, where the complexity of each learner typically grows with the size of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Amichai Painsky , Saharon Rosset

Visual data compression is shifting from human-centered reconstruction to machine-oriented representation coding. In this setting, an image is often mapped to a compact semantic embedding, which is then compressed and transmitted for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Andriy Enttsel , Vincent Corlay

Compression aims to reduce the size of an input, while maintaining its relevant properties. For multi-parameter persistent homology, compression is a necessary step in any computational pipeline, since standard constructions lead to large…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Ulderico Fugacci , Michael Kerber , Alexander Rolle

The success of deep neural networks in many real-world applications is leading to new challenges in building more efficient architectures. One effective way of making networks more efficient is neural network compression. We provide an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Andrey Kuzmin , Markus Nagel , Saurabh Pitre , Sandeep Pendyam , Tijmen Blankevoort , Max Welling

Deep neural networks have achieved strong performance in image classification tasks due to their ability to learn complex patterns from high-dimensional data. However, their large computational and memory requirements often limit deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sai Shi

The problem of variable-rate lossless data compression is considered, for codes with and without prefix constraints. Sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable compression rate of memoryless sources, when the excess-rate probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andreas Theocharous , Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Relative compression, where a set of similar strings are compressed with respect to a reference string, is a very effective method of compressing DNA datasets containing multiple similar sequences. Relative compression is fast to perform…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2011-06-21 Shanika Kuruppu , Simon Puglisi , Justin Zobel

Large-sample data became prevalent as data acquisition became cheaper and easier. While a large sample size has theoretical advantages for many statistical methods, it presents computational challenges. Sketching, or compression, is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-11 Alexander F. Lapanowski , Irina Gaynanova

Compressive Sensing, as an emerging technique in signal processing is reviewed in this paper together with its common applications. As an alternative to the traditional signal sampling, Compressive Sensing allows a new acquisition strategy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Andjela Draganic , Irena Orovic , Srdjan Stankovic

The traditional methods for data compression are typically based on the symbol-level statistics, with the information source modeled as a long sequence of i.i.d. random variables or a stochastic process, thus establishing the fundamental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mingxiao Li , Rui Jin , Liyao Xiang , Kaiming Shen , Shuguang Cui

Compressed sensing is a technique for recovering an unknown sparse signal from a small number of linear measurements. When the measurement matrix is random, the number of measurements required for perfect recovery exhibits a phase…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Mateo Díaz , Mauricio Junca , Felipe Rincón , Mauricio Velasco

We present herein a scheme by which to accurately evaluate the error exponents of a lossy data compression problem, which characterize average probabilities over a code ensemble of compression failure and success above or below a critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadaaki Hosaka , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

Many common types of data can be represented as functions that map coordinates to signal values, such as pixel locations to RGB values in the case of an image. Based on this view, data can be compressed by overfitting a compact neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zongyu Guo , Gergely Flamich , Jiajun He , Zhibo Chen , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Finding methods for making generalizable predictions is a fundamental problem of machine learning. By looking into similarities between the prediction problem for unknown data and the lossless compression we have found an approach that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Michael Tetelman

Non-uniquely decodable codes can be defined as the codes that cannot be uniquely decoded without additional disambiguation information. These are mainly the class of non-prefix-free codes, where a codeword can be a prefix of other(s), and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-14 M. Oğuzhan Külekci , Yasin Öztürk , Elif Altunok , Can Altıniğne

With time, machine learning models have increased in their scope, functionality and size. Consequently, the increased functionality and size of such models requires high-end hardware to both train and provide inference after the fact. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Arhum Ishtiaq , Sara Mahmood , Maheen Anees , Neha Mumtaz

We provide a rate distortion interpretation of the problem of quantum data compression of ensembles of mixed states with commuting density operators. There are two versions of this problem. In the visible case the sequence of states is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Kramer , Serap A. Savari