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Lossless variable-length source coding with codeword cost is considered for general sources. The problem setting, where we impose on unequal costs on code symbols, is called the variable-length coding with codeword cost. In this problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Ryo Nomura

We consider nonparametric or universal sequential hypothesis testing problem when the distribution under the null hypothesis is fully known but the alternate hypothesis corresponds to some other unknown distribution. These algorithms are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Jithin K. Sreedharan , Vinod Sharma

We introduce a new variant of variable-length source coding for sending a source over two parallel channels, one of which is costly and the other free. We give a complete solution to this problem. Next, we relate the problem to the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Niloufar Ahmadypour , Amin Gohari

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

The distributed source coding problem is considered when the sensors, or encoders, are under Byzantine attack; that is, an unknown number of sensors have been reprogrammed by a malicious intruder to undermine the reconstruction at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Oliver Kosut , Lang Tong

We study a Pareto-type notion of finite-block optimality for injective source codes, where two codes are compared through the full sequence of expected block lengths. As a concrete and fully analyzable test case, we revisit the four-symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Stefano Della Fiore

Weight quantisation is an essential technique for enabling efficient training and deployment of modern deep learning models. However, the recipe book of quantisation formats is large and formats are often chosen empirically. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Douglas Orr , Luka Ribar , Carlo Luschi

For a given independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) source, Huffman code achieves the optimal average codeword length in the class of instantaneous code with a single code table. However, it is known that there exist time-variant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kengo Hashimoto , Ken-ichi Iwata

I introduce rate-distortion theory for quantum coding, and derive a lower bound, involving the coherent information, on the rate at which qubits must be used to encode a quantum source with a given maximum level of distortion per source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard Barnum

Second order asymptotics of fixed-length source coding and intrinsic randomness is discussed with a constant error constraint. There was a difference between optimal rates of fixed-length source coding and intrinsic randomness, which never…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-23 Masahito Hayashi

We introduce a framework which allows to systematically and arbitrarily scale the code distance of local fermion-to-qubit encodings in one and two dimensions without growing the weights of stabilizers. This is achieved by embedding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Manuel G. Algaba , Miha Papič , Inés de Vega , Alessio Calzona , Fedor Šimkovic

This paper considers lossy source coding of $n$-dimensional memoryless sources and shows an explicit approximation to the minimum source coding rate required to sustain the probability of exceeding distortion $d$ no greater than $\epsilon$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Victoria Kostina

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 describe a method for lossless quantum compression if the output of the information source is not known. We compute the best possible compression rate, minimizing the expected base length of the output quantum bit string (the base length…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-19 Markus Mueller , Caroline Rogers , Rajagopal Nagarajan

Term Coding asks: given a finite system of term identities $\Gamma$ in $v$ variables, how large can its solution set be on an $n$--element alphabet, when we are free to choose the interpretations of the function symbols? This turns familiar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Søren Riis

While achieving a compression ratio of 2.0 bits/base, the new algorithm codes non-N bases in fixed length. It dramatically reduces the time of coding and decoding than previous DNA compression algorithms and some universal compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Jie Liu , Sheng Bao , Zhiqiang Jing , Shi Chen

This work studies point-to-point, multiple access, and random access lossless source coding in the finite-blocklength regime. In each scenario, a random coding technique is developed and used to analyze third-order coding performance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Shuqing Chen , Michelle Effros , Victoria Kostina

This paper provides an extensive study of the behavior of the best achievable rate (and other related fundamental limits) in variable-length lossless compression. In the non-asymptotic regime, the fundamental limits of fixed-to-variable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Sergio Verdu

The problem of variable-rate lossless data compression is considered, for codes with and without prefix constraints. Sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable compression rate of memoryless sources, when the excess-rate probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andreas Theocharous , Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Shaping codes are used to generate code sequences in which the symbols obey a prescribed probability distribution. They arise naturally in the context of source coding for noiseless channels with unequal symbol costs. Recently, shaping…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yi Liu , Yonglong Li , Pengfei Huang , Paul H. Siegel