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We consider the problem of optimally compressing and caching data across a communication network. Given the data generated at edge nodes and a routing path, our goal is to determine the optimal data compression ratios and caching decisions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jian Li , Faheem Zafari , Don Towsley , Kin K. Leung , Ananthram Swami

Consider a generalized multiterminal source coding system, where $\ell\choose m$ encoders, each observing a distinct size-$m$ subset of $\ell$ ($\ell\geq 2$) zero-mean unit-variance symmetrically correlated Gaussian sources with correlation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Jun Chen , Li Xie , Yameng Chang , Jia Wang , Yizhong Wang

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

The two most prevalent notions of common information (CI) are due to Wyner and Gacs-Korner and both the notions can be stated as two different characteristic points in the lossless Gray-Wyner region. Although the information theoretic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Kumar Viswanatha , Emrah Akyol , Kenneth Rose

This paper considers a framework where data from correlated sources are transmitted with help of network coding in ad-hoc network topologies. The correlated data are encoded independently at sensors and network coding is employed in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Hyunggon Park , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

This work studies distributed compression for the uplink of a cloud radio access network where multiple multi-antenna base stations (BSs) are connected to a central unit, also referred to as cloud decoder, via capacity-constrained backhaul…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Onur Sahin , Shlomo Shamai

In the distributed optimization problem for a multi-agent system, each agent knows a local function and must find a minimizer of the sum of all agents' local functions by performing a combination of local gradient evaluations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

In this paper we generalize the notion of common information of two dependent variables introduced by G\'acs & K\"orner. They defined common information as the largest entropy rate of a common random variable two parties observing one of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

The goal of this thesis is to study the compression problems arising in distributed computing systematically. In the first part of the thesis, we study gradient compression for distributed first-order optimization. We begin by establishing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Prathamesh Mayekar

We investigate distributed source coding of two correlated sources X and Y where messages are passed to a decoder in a cascade fashion. The encoder of X sends a message at rate R_1 to the encoder of Y. The encoder of Y then sends a message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Paul Cuff , Han-I Su , Abbas El Gamal

In literature, different common informations were defined by G\'acs and K\"orner, by Wyner, and by Kumar, Li, and Gamal, respectively. In this paper, we define two generalized versions of common informations, named approximate and exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Lei Yu , Houqiang Li , Chang Wen Chen

We study distributed composite optimization over networks: agents minimize a sum of smooth (strongly) convex functions, the agents' sum-utility, plus a nonsmooth (extended-valued) convex one. We propose a general unified algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Jinming Xu , Ye Tian , Ying Sun , Gesualdo Scutari

We present time-efficient distributed algorithms for decomposing graphs with large edge or vertex connectivity into multiple spanning or dominating trees, respectively. As their primary applications, these decompositions allow us to achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Keren Censor-Hillel , Mohsen Ghaffari , Fabian Kuhn

The Tucker decomposition expresses a given tensor as the product of a small core tensor and a set of factor matrices. Apart from providing data compression, the construction is useful in performing analysis such as principal component…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Venkatesan T Chakaravarthy , Jee W Choi , Douglas J Joseph , Xing Liu , Prakash Murali , Yogish Sabharwal , Dheeraj Sreedhar

In a decentralized and self-configuring network, the communication devices are considered as autonomous decision-makers that sense their environment and that implement optimal transmission schemes. It is essential that these autonomous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Maël Le Treust

The well known maximum-entropy principle due to Jaynes, which states that given mean parameters, the maximum entropy distribution matching them is in an exponential family, has been very popular in machine learning due to its "Occam's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Yuanzhi Li , Andrej Risteski

We consider the distributed source coding problem in which correlated data picked up by scattered sensors has to be encoded separately and transmitted to a common receiver, subject to a rate-distortion constraint. Although near-tooptimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-09 G. Maierbacher , J. Barros

The paper studies the distributed stochastic compositional optimization problems over networks, where all the agents' inner-level function is the sum of each agent's private expectation function. Focusing on the aggregative structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Shengchao Zhao , Yongchao Liu

This paper presents a novel structure-preserving, Kron-based reduction framework for unbalanced distribution feeders. The method aggregates electrically similar nodes within a mixed-integer optimization (MIP) problem to produce reduced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Omid Mokhtari , Samuel Chevalier , Mads Almassalkhi

This work considers the problem of transmitting multiple compressible sources over a network at minimum cost. The aim is to find the optimal rates at which the sources should be compressed and the network flows using which they should be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-13 Aditya Ramamoorthy