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Due to the substantial scale of Large Language Models (LLMs), the direct application of conventional compression methodologies proves impractical. The computational demands associated with even minimal gradient updates present challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Arnav Chavan , Nahush Lele , Deepak Gupta

Pipeline-parallel distributed optimization is essential for large-scale machine learning but is challenged by significant communication overhead from transmitting high-dimensional activations and gradients between workers. Existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Boao Kong , Xu Huang , Yuqi Xu , Yixuan Liang , Bin Wang , Kun Yuan

In a system that performs both encryption and lossy compression, the conventional way is to compress first and then encrypt the compressed data. This separation approach proves to be optimal. In certain applications where sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Wei Kang , Nan Liu

The performance of a lossy data compression scheme for uniformly biased Boolean messages is investigated via methods of statistical mechanics. Inspired by a formal similarity to the storage capacity problem in the research of neural…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Hosaka , Y. Kabashima , H. Nishimori

In this paper, we analyze classical data compression with quantum side information (also known as the classical-quantum Slepian-Wolf protocol) in the so-called large and moderate deviation regimes. In the non-asymptotic setting, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 Hao-Chung Cheng , Eric P. Hanson , Nilanjana Datta , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

We introduce a new approach to LZ77 factorization that uses O(n/d) words of working space and O(dn) time for any d >= 1 (for polylogarithmic alphabet sizes). We also describe carefully engineered implementations of alternative approaches to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Juha Kärkkäinen , Dominik Kempa , Simon J. Puglisi

I investigate the generic problem of lossy compression of a fluctuating stochastic signal $X$ into a discrete representation $Z$ through optimal thresholding. The signal modulates transition rates of a two-state system described by a binary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-07 Jonas Berx

This paper investigates the size in bits of the LZ77 encoding, which is the most popular and efficient variant of the Lempel-Ziv encodings used in data compression. We prove that, for a wide natural class of variable-length encoders for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Dmitry Kosolobov

Information compression is essential to reduce communication cost in distributed optimization over peer-to-peer networks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient linearly convergent distributed (COLD) algorithm to solve strongly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Jiaqi Zhang , Keyou You , Lihua Xie

Variable-length compression without prefix-free constraints and with side-information available at both encoder and decoder is considered. Instead of requiring the code to be error-free, we allow for it to have a non-vanishing error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Yuta Sakai , Vincent Y. F. Tan

As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely approached the limits of Shannon channel capacity, semantic communication has been recognized as a key enabling technology for the further improvement of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we study the lossless analog compression for i.i.d. nonsingular signals via the polarization-based framework. We prove that for nonsingular source, the error probability of maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation polarizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Shuai Yuan , Liuquan Yao , Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Wen Tong , Zhiming Ma

Existing work on prompt compression for Large Language Models (LLM) focuses on lossy methods that try to maximize the retention of semantic information that is relevant to downstream tasks while significantly reducing the sequence length.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 John Harvill , Ziwei Fan , Hao Wang , Luke Huan , Anoop Deoras , Yizhou Sun , Hao Ding

We study the complexity of constructing an optimal parsing $\varphi$ of a string ${\bf s} = s_1 \dots s_n$ under the constraint that given a position $p$ in the original text, and the LZ76-like (Lempel Ziv 76) encoding of $T$ based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Ferdinando Cicalese , Francesca Ugazio

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

We present adaptive on-line schemes for lossy encoding of individual sequences under the conditions of the Wyner-Ziv (WZ) problem. In the first part of this article, a set of fixed-rate scalar source codes with zero delay is presented. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-12 Avraham Reani , Neri Merhav

One requirement of maintaining digital information is storage. With the latest advances in the digital world, new emerging media types have required even more storage space to be kept than before. In fact, in many cases it is required to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Vasileios Alevizos , Nikitas Gerolimos , Sabrina Edralin , Clark Xu , Akebu Simasiku , Georgios Priniotakis , George Papakostas , Zongliang Yue

We present a development of parts of rate-distortion theory and pattern- matching algorithms for lossy data compression, centered around a lossy version of the Asymptotic Equipartition Property (AEP). This treatment closely parallels the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-07-16 A. Dembo , I. Kontoyiannis

The deployment of Large Language Models is constrained by the memory and bandwidth demands of static weights and dynamic Key-Value cache. SVD-based compression provides a hardware-friendly solution to reduce these costs. However, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ruoling Qi , Yirui Liu , Xuaner Wu , Xiangyu Wang , Ming Li , Chen Chen , Jian Chen , Yin Chen , Qizhen Weng

This work focus on how to stabilize and lossless model compression, aiming to reduce model complexity and enhance efficiency without sacrificing performance due to compression errors. A key challenge is effectively leveraging compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Boyang Zhang , Daning Cheng , Yunquan Zhang , Fangming Liu , Wenguang Chen