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Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jiahui Wei , Elsa Dupraz , Philippe Mary

The capacity of finite state channels (FSCs) has been established as the limit of a sequence of multi-letter expressions only and, despite tremendous effort, a corresponding finite-letter characterization remains unknown to date. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Holger Boche , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

Many applications require data processing to be performed on individual pieces of data which are of finite sizes, e.g., files in cloud storage units and packets in data networks. However, traditional universal compression solutions would…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Ahmad Beirami , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

Lossless compression methods shorten the expected representation size of data without loss of information, using a statistical model. Flow-based models are attractive in this setting because they admit exact likelihood optimization, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Emiel Hoogeboom , Jorn W. T. Peters , Rianne van den Berg , Max Welling

We study a quantity called discrete layered entropy, which approximates the Shannon entropy within a logarithmic gap. Compared to the Shannon entropy, the discrete layered entropy is piecewise linear, approximates the expected length of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Cheuk Ting Li

Repository-level code intelligence tasks require large language models (LLMs) to process long, multi-file contexts. Such inputs introduce three challenges: crucial context can be obscured by noise, truncated due to limited windows, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jia Feng , Zhanyue Qin , Cuiyun Gao , Ruiqi Wang , Chaozheng Wang , Yingwei Ma , Xiaoyuan Xie

A generic approach for compiling any classical block compression algorithm into a quantum block compression algorithm is presented. Using this technique, compression asymptoticaly approaching the von Neumann entropy of a qubit source can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Langford

Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success in visual media applications. In particular, diffusion methods have enabled new approaches to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

This paper examines information-theoretic questions regarding the difficulty of compressing data versus the difficulty of decompressing data and the role that information loss plays in this interaction. Finite-state compression and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-29 David Doty , Philippe Moser

In this paper we give constructions for infinite sequences of finite non-linear locally recoverable codes $\mathcal C\subseteq \prod\limits^N_{i=1}\mathbb F_{q_i}$ over a product of finite fields arising from basis expansions in algebraic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Andrea Ferraguti , Dorian Goldfeld , Giacomo Micheli

Self-forcing video generation extends a short-horizon video model to longer rollouts by repeatedly feeding generated content back in as context. This scaling path immediately exposes a systems bottleneck: the key-value (KV) cache grows with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Suraj Ranganath , Vaishak Menon , Anish Patnaik

This paper finds new tight finite-blocklength bounds for the best achievable lossy joint source-channel code rate, and demonstrates that joint source-channel code design brings considerable performance advantage over a separate one in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

We study the computational complexity of approximately counting the number of independent sets of a graph with maximum degree Delta. More generally, for an input graph G=(V,E) and an activity lambda>0, we are interested in the quantity…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-08-12 Andreas Galanis , Qi Ge , Daniel Stefankovic , Eric Vigoda , Linji Yang

Concatenation is a method of building long codes out of shorter ones, it attempts to meet the problem of decoding complexity by breaking the required computation into manageable segments. Concatenated Continuous Phase Frequency Shift Keying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-24 Labib Francis Gergis

The Kolmogorov complexity of x, denoted C(x), is the length of the shortest program that generates x. For such a simple definition, Kolmogorov complexity has a rich and deep theory, as well as applications to a wide variety of topics…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Stephen Fenner , Lance Fortnow

This paper presents prefix codes which minimize various criteria constructed as a convex combination of maximum codeword length and average codeword length or maximum redundancy and average redundancy, including a convex combination of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-11 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous , Farzad Rezaei

This paper shows that the probability that the error exponent of a given code randomly generated from a pairwise independent ensemble being smaller than a lower bound on the typical random-coding exponent tends to zero as the codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Giuseppe Cocco , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas , Josep Font-Segura

Since the work of Ferrenberg et al.[PRL 69, (1992)] some pseudo random number generators are known to yield wrong results in cluster Monte Carlo simulations. In this contribution the fundamental mechanism behind this failure is discussed.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens , Heiko Bauke

We propose a numerical method to efficiently compute quantum generating functions (QGF) for a wide class of observables in one-dimensional quantum systems at high temperature. We obtain high-accuracy estimates for the cumulants and…