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The set of all error-correcting codes C over a fixed finite alphabet F of cardinality q determines the set of code points in the unit square with coordinates (R(C), delta (C)):= (relative transmission rate, relative minimal distance). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yuri I. Manin , Matilde Marcolli

We introduce a universal quantization scheme based on random coding, and we analyze its performance. This scheme consists of a source-independent random codebook (typically_mismatched_ to the source distribution), followed by optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Rami Zamir

Rate distortion dimension describes the theoretical limit of lossy data compression methods as the distortion bound goes to zero. It was originally introduced in the context of information theory, and recently it was discovered that it has…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Masaki Tsukamoto

One popular approach to soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on using multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm in combination with erasing or flipping a set of symbols or bits in each trial. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

This paper studies the minimum achievable source coding rate as a function of blocklength $n$ and probability $\epsilon$ that the distortion exceeds a given level $d$. Tight general achievability and converse bounds are derived that hold at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

In this paper, we use tools from rate-distortion theory to establish new upper bounds on the generalization error of statistical distributed learning algorithms. Specifically, there are $K$ clients whose individually chosen models are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-23 Milad Sefidgaran , Romain Chor , Abdellatif Zaidi

We propose a new construction for low-density source codes with multiple parameters that can be tuned to optimize the performance of the code. In addition, we introduce a set of analysis techniques for deriving upper bounds for the expected…

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

The fundamental limit of natural signal compression has traditionally been characterized by classical rate-distortion (RD) theory through the tradeoff between coding rate and reconstruction distortion, while the rate-distortion-perception…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zijian Liang , Kai Niu , Changshuo Wang , Jin Xu , Ping Zhang

With the increasing number of images and videos consumed by computer vision algorithms, compression methods are evolving to consider both perceptual quality and performance in downstream tasks. Traditional codecs can tackle this problem by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-14 Samuel Fernández Menduiña , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

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

We revisit the Gray-Wyner lossy source coding problem and derive the first-order asymptotic optimal rate-distortion-perception region when additional perception constraints are imposed on reproduced source sequences. The optimal trade-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yu Yang , Yingxin Zhang , Weijie Yuan , Lin Zhou

In this paper, we study the rate distortion function of the i.i.d sequence of multiplications of a Bernoulli $p$ random variable and a gaussian random variable $\sim N(0,1)$. We use a new technique in the derivation of the lower bound in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Cheng Chang

Shaping codes are used to encode information for use on channels with cost constraints. Applications include data transmission with a power constraint and, more recently, data storage on flash memories with a constraint on memory cell wear.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Yi Liu , Pengfei Huang , Alexander W. Bergman , Paul H. Siegel

Motivated by the problem of compressing point sets into as few bits as possible while maintaining information about approximate distances between points, we construct random nonlinear maps $\varphi_\ell$ that compress point sets in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Brett Leroux , Luis Rademacher

Representing a continuous-time signal by a set of samples is a classical problem in signal processing. We study this problem under the additional constraint that the samples are quantized or compressed in a lossy manner under a limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Alon Kipnis , Yonina C. Eldar , Andrea J. Goldsmith

We consider the problem of distributed lossy linear function computation in a tree network. We examine two cases: (i) data aggregation (only one sink node computes) and (ii) consensus (all nodes compute the same function). By quantifying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Yaoqing Yang , Pulkit Grover , Soummya Kar

Consider the problem of estimating a latent signal from a lossy compressed version of the data when the compressor is agnostic to the relation between the signal and the data. This situation arises in a host of modern applications when data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Alon Kipnis , Stefano Rini , Andrea J. Goldsmith

We consider the distributed compression of Soft Random Geometric Graphs (SRGGs) above the connectivity threshold. We establish the Slepian-Wolf rate region for the SRGG in the setting where there are a finite number of encoders compressing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Oliver Baker , Carl P. Dettmann

This work investigates the problem of signal recovery from undersampled noisy sub-Gaussian measurements under the assumption of a synthesis-based sparsity model. Solving the $\ell^1$-synthesis basis pursuit allows for a simultaneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Maximilian März , Claire Boyer , Jonas Kahn , Pierre Weiss

An antidictionary code is a lossless compression algorithm using an antidictionary which is a set of minimal words that do not occur as substrings in an input string. The code was proposed by Crochemore et al. in 2000, and its asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Takahiro Ota , Hiroyoshi Morita