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Under which condition is quantization optimal? We address this question in the context of the additive uniform noise channel under peak amplitude and cost constraints. We compute analytically the capacity-achieving input distribution as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jonas Stapmanns , Catarina Dias , Luke Eilers , Tobias Kühn , Jean-Pascal Pfister

We consider the problem of optimal zero-delay coding and estimation of a stochastic dynamical system over a noisy communication channel under three estimation criteria concerned with the low-distortion regime. The criteria considered are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-28 Christoph Kawan , Serdar Yüksel

We investigate all possible noise environments for controlled remote state preparation. We find that the optimal efficiency is not only dependent on the isolate decay rate but also dependent on the coupling term of environments. Such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-06 Yuan-hua Li , Zisheng Wang , Hua-qing Zhou , Xian-feng Chen

Evaluating the reliability of noisy quantum circuits is essential for implementing quantum algorithms on noisy quantum devices. However, current quantum hardware exhibits diverse noise mechanisms whose compounded effects make accurate and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Jindi Wu , Tianjie Hu , Qun Li

Noisy network coding, which elegantly combines the conventional compress-and-forward relaying strategy and ideas from network coding, has recently drawn much attention for its simplicity and optimality in achieving to within constant gap of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-12-13 Lei Zhou , Wei Yu

We explore and formalize the task of synthesizing programs over noisy data, i.e., data that may contain corrupted input-output examples. By formalizing the concept of a Noise Source, an Input Source, and a prior distribution over programs,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Shivam Handa , Martin Rinard

Understanding the effects of noise on quantum computations is fundamental to the development of quantum hardware and quantum algorithms. Simulation tools are essential for quantitatively modelling these effects, yet unless artificial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Anthony P. Thompson , Arie Soeteman , Chris Cade , Ido Niesen

We revisit the problem of computing with noisy information considered in Feige et al. 1994, which includes computing the OR function from noisy queries, and computing the MAX, SEARCH and SORT functions from noisy pairwise comparisons. For…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Banghua Zhu , Ziao Wang , Nadim Ghaddar , Jiantao Jiao , Lele Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of securely computing a function over a network, where both the target function and the security function are vector linear. The network is modeled as a directed acyclic graph. A sink node wishes to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Min Xu , Qian Chen , Gennian Ge

This article studies the zero-error feedback capacity of {\em causal} discrete channels with memory. First, by extending the classical zero-error feedback capacity concept, a new notion of {\em uniform zero-error feedback capacity} $ C_{0f}…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Amir Saberi , Farhad Farokhi , Girish Nair

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

A subset of a set of terminals that observe correlated signals seek to compute a given function of the signals using public communication. It is required that the value of the function be kept secret from an eavesdropper with access to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-20 Himanshu Tyagi , Prakash Narayan , Piyush Gupta

Dedicated analog neurocomputing circuits are promising for high-throughput, low power consumption applications of machine learning (ML) and for applications where implementing a digital computer is unwieldy (remote locations; small, mobile,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ye min Thant , Methawee Nukunudompanich , Chu-Chen Chueh , Manabu Ihara , Sergei Manzhos

This paper considers a discrete time-Poisson noise channel which is used to model pulse-amplitude modulated optical communication with a direct-detection receiver. The goal of this paper is to obtain insights into the capacity and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Luca Barletta , Alex Dytso

The estimation of parameters characterizing dynamical processes is central to science and technology. The estimation error changes with the number N of resources employed in the experiment (which could quantify, for instance, the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 B. M. Escher , R. L. de Matos Filho , L. Davidovich

The ability of a quantum computer to reproduce or replicate the results of a quantum circuit is a key concern for verifying and validating applications of quantum computing. Statistical variations in circuit outcomes that arise from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Samudra Dasgupta , Travis S. Humble

This work considers a binomial noise channel. The paper can be roughly divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with the properties of the capacity-achieving distribution. In particular, for the binomial channel, it is not known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Ian Zieder , Antonino Favano , Luca Barletta , Alex Dytso

For reliable transmission across a noisy communication channel, classical results from information theory show that it is asymptotically optimal to separate out the source and channel coding processes. However, this decomposition can fall…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Kristy Choi , Kedar Tatwawadi , Aditya Grover , Tsachy Weissman , Stefano Ermon

We investigate the connection between measure, capacity and algorithmic randomness for the space of closed sets. For any computable measure m, a computable capacity T may be defined by letting T(Q) be the measure of the family of closed…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Douglas Cenzer , Paul Brodhead , Ferit Toska , Sebastian Wyman

This paper considers a sequential sensor scheduling and remote estimation problem with one sensor and one estimator. The sensor makes sequential observations about the state of an underlying memoryless stochastic process and makes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar