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In this paper, we provide three applications for $f$-divergences: (i) we introduce Sanov's upper bound on the tail probability of the sum of independent random variables based on super-modular $f$-divergence and show that our generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Saeed Masiha , Amin Gohari , Mohammad Hossein Yassaee

Motivated by the lossy compression of an active-vision video stream, we consider the problem of finding the rate-distortion function of an arbitrarily varying source (AVS) composed of a finite number of subsources with known distributions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hari Palaiyanur , Cheng Chang , Anant Sahai

Blau and Michaeli recently introduced a novel concept for inverse problems of signal processing, that is, the perception-distortion tradeoff. We introduce their tradeoff into the rate distortion theory of lossy source coding in information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ryutaroh Matsumoto

We study the compression of data in the case where the useful information is contained in a set rather than a vector, i.e., the ordering of the data points is irrelevant and the number of data points is unknown. Our analysis is based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Günther Koliander , Dominic Schuhmacher , Franz Hlawatsch

In this work, we establish a full single-letter characterization of the rate-distortion region of an instance of the Gray-Wyner model with side information at the decoders. Specifically, in this model an encoder observes a pair of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Meryem Benammar , Abdellatif Zaidi

We extend quantum rate distortion theory by considering auxiliary resources that might be available to a sender and receiver performing lossy quantum data compression. The first setting we consider is that of quantum rate distortion coding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Mark M. Wilde , Nilanjana Datta , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Andreas Winter

An approach is established for maximizing the Lower bound on the Mismatch capacity (hereafter abbreviated as LM rate), a key performance bound in mismatched decoding, by optimizing the channel input probability distribution. Under a fixed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Xinwei Li , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu , Wenyi Zhang

This paper investigates a source coding problem in which two terminals communicating through a relay wish to estimate one another's source within some distortion constraint. The relay has access to side information that is correlated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Farideh Ebrahim Rezagah , Elza Erkip

We provide a complete characterization of the rate-distortion region for the multistage successive refinement of the Wyner-Ziv source coding problem with degraded side informations at the decoder. Necessary and sufficient conditions for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Chao Tian , Suhas Diggavi

Task-Oriented Source Coding (TOSC) has emerged as a paradigm for efficient visual data communication in machine-centric inference systems, where bitrate, latency, and task performance must be jointly optimized under resource constraints.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Andriy Enttsel , Vincent Corlay

Recent work has suggested that low-density generator matrix (LDGM) codes are likely to be effective for lossy source coding problems. We derive rigorous upper bounds on the effective rate-distortion function of LDGM codes for the binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Emin Martinian , Martin J. Wainwright

We derive information-theoretic lower bounds on the Bayes risk and generalization error of realizable machine learning models. In particular, we employ an analysis in which the rate-distortion function of the model parameters bounds the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Matthew Nokleby , Ahmad Beirami

Index coding, or broadcasting with side information, is a network coding problem of most fundamental importance. In this problem, given a directed graph, each vertex represents a user with a need of information, and the neighborhood of each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Abhishek Agarwal , Arya Mazumdar

The rate-distortion saddle-point problem considered by Lapidoth (1997) consists in finding the minimum rate to compress an arbitrary ergodic source when one is constrained to use a random Gaussian codebook and minimum (Euclidean) distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Mehul Motani

The problem of lossless data compression with side information available to both the encoder and the decoder is considered. The finite-blocklength fundamental limits of the best achievable performance are defined, in two different versions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We study the problem of compressing a source sequence in the presence of side-information that is related to the source via insertions, deletions and substitutions. We propose a simple algorithm to compress the source sequence when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

Recent years have seen a tremendous growth in both the capability and popularity of automatic machine analysis of images and video. As a result, a growing need for efficient compression methods optimized for machine vision, rather than…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Alon Harell , Yalda Foroutan , Nilesh Ahuja , Parual Datta , Bhavya Kanzariya , V. Srinivasa Somayazulu , Omesh Tickoo , Anderson de Andrade , Ivan V. Bajic

We propose a framework for second-order achievability, called type deviation convergence, that is generally applicable to settings in network information theory, and is especially suitable for lossy source coding and channel coding with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Cheuk Ting Li

The problem of lossless fixed-rate streaming coding of discrete memoryless sources with side information at the decoder is studied. A random time-varying tree-code is used to sequentially bin strings and a Stack Algorithm with a variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Hari Palaiyanur , Anant Sahai

Consider the problem where a statistician in a two-node system receives rate-limited information from a transmitter about marginal observations of a memoryless process generated from two possible distributions. Using its own observations,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Gil Katz , Pablo Piantanida , Mérouane Debbah