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We consider the standard broadcast setup with a single server broadcasting information to a number of clients, each of which contains local storage (called \textit{cache}) of some size, which can store some parts of the available files at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Shailja Agrawal , K V Sushena Sree , Prasad Krishnan

A new scheme for the problem of centralized coded caching with non-uniform demands is proposed. The distinguishing feature of the proposed placement strategy is that it admits equal sub-packetization for all files while allowing the users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Saeid Sahraei , Pierre Quinton , Michael Gastpar

Degraded K-user broadcast channels (BC) are studied when receivers are facilitated with cache memories. Lower and upper bounds are derived on the capacity-memory tradeoff, i.e., on the largest rate of reliable communication over the BC as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Michele Wigger , Aylin Yener

The problem of optimal real-time transmission of a Markov source under constraints on the expected number of transmissions is considered, both for the discounted and long term average cases. This setup is motivated by applications where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Jhelum Chakravorty , Aditya Mahajan

Two main trends in today's internet are of major interest for video streaming services: most content delivery platforms coincide towards using adaptive video streaming over HTTP and new network architectures allowing caching at intermediate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Reinhard Grandl , Kai Su , Cedric Westphal

Generalization to novel visual conditions remains a central challenge for both human and machine vision, yet standard robustness metrics offer limited insight into how systems trade accuracy for robustness. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Leyla Roksan Caglar , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Baihan Lin

This survey articles focuses on emerging connections between the fields of machine learning and data compression. While fundamental limits of classical (lossy) data compression are established using rate-distortion theory, the connections…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jun Chen , Yong Fang , Ashish Khisti , Ayfer Ozgur , Nir Shlezinger , Chao Tian

To cluster, classify and represent are three fundamental objectives of learning from high-dimensional data with intrinsic structure. To this end, this paper introduces three interpretable approaches, i.e., segmentation (clustering) via the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kai-Liang Lu , Avraham Chapman

Lossy data compression lies at the heart of modern communication and storage systems. Shannon's rate-distortion theory provides the fundamental limit on how much a source can be compressed at a given fidelity, but it assumes infinitely long…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bhaskar Krishnamachari

We consider the problem of revealing/sharing data in an efficient and secure way via a compact representation. The representation should ensure reliable reconstruction of the desired features/attributes while still preserve privacy of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Kittipong Kittichokechai , Giuseppe Caire

In-network caching is one of the fundamental operations of Information-centric networks (ICN). The default caching strategy taken by most of the current ICN proposals is caching along--default--path, which makes popular objects to be cached…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-10 Sumanta Saha , Andrey Lukyanenko , Antti Ylä-Jääski

Large language models cache all previously computed key-value (KV) pairs during generation, and this KV cache grows linearly with sequence length, making it a primary memory bottleneck for serving. Quantizing the KV cache to fewer bits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Fei Zuo , Zikang Zhou , Hao Cong , Xiaoyan Xi , Ho Fai Leung

Quantum random variable, distortion operator are introduced based on canonical operators. As the lower bound of rate distortion, the entanglement information rate distortion is achieved by Gaussian map for Gaussian source. General Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-yu Chen

This work studies the coded caching problem in a setting where the users are simultaneously endowed with a private cache and a shared cache. The setting consists of a server connected to a set of users, assisted by a smaller number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Elizabath Peter , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

We study the decentralized caching scheme in a two-layer network, which includes a sever, multiple helpers, and multiple users. Basically, the proposed caching scheme consists of two phases, i.e, placement phase and delivery phase. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Lin Zhang , Zhao Wang , Ming Xiao , Gang Wu , Ying-Chaang Liang , Shaoqian Li

This paper addresses the problem of collaborative navigation in an unknown environment, where two robots, referred to in the sequel as the Seeker and the Supporter, traverse the space simultaneously. The Supporter assists the Seeker by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ali Reza Pedram , Evangelos Psomiadis , Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

The problem of reconstructing a source sequence with the presence of decoder side-information that is mis-synchronized to the source due to deletions is studied in a distributed source coding framework. Motivated by practical applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

Perception-aware lossy source coding has attracted significant recent interest. It augments the classical distortion criterion with an explicit perception constraint, thereby enabling more refined control over fidelity and perceptual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ali Hussein , Jun Chen , Chao Tian , S. Sandeep Pradhan

In this paper, we consider the problem of variable packet-error coding, which emerges in network communication scenarios where a source transmits information to a destination through multiple disjoint paths. The objective is to design codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xiangliang Kong , Xin Wang , Ron M. Roth , Itzhak Tamo

Optical networks are vulnerable to physical layer attacks; wiretappers can improperly receive messages intended for legitimate recipients. Our work considers an aspect of this security problem within the domain of multimode fiber (MMF)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eva C. Song , Emina Soljanin , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor , Kyle Guan