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We address the problem of constructing a fast lossless code in the case when the source alphabet is large. The main idea of the new scheme may be described as follows. We group letters with small probabilities in subsets (acting as super…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Boris Ryabko , Jaakko Astola , Karen Egiazarian

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

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

A new framework is introduced for examining and evaluating the fundamental limits of lossless data compression, that emphasizes genuinely non-asymptotic results. The {\em sample complexity} of compressing a given source is defined as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Terence Viaud , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We study lossy compression of a finite statement source generated in a fixed deductive environment. The source symbols are statements in a knowledge base endowed with a shared proof system, and reconstruction fidelity is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jianfeng Xu

This paper studies variable-length (VL) source coding of general sources with side-information. Novel one-shot coding theorems for coding with common side-information available at the encoder and the decoder and Slepian- Wolf (SW) coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Shigeaki Kuzuoka , Shun Watanabe

This paper sheds light on universal coding with respect to classes of memoryless sources over a countable alphabet defined by an envelope function with finite and non-decreasing hazard rate. We prove that the auto-censuring AC code…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-11 Dominique Bontemps , Stéphane Boucheron , Elisabeth Gassiat

This paper deals with a universal coding problem for a certain kind of multiterminal source coding network called a generalized complementary delivery network. In this network, messages from multiple correlated sources are jointly encoded,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-02 Akisato Kimura , Tomohiko Uyematsu , Shigeaki Kuzuoka , Shun Watanabe

A general method of source coding over expansion is proposed in this paper, which enables one to reduce the problem of compressing an analog (continuous-valued source) to a set of much simpler problems, compressing discrete sources.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Hongbo Si , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

We study the problem of universal decoding for unknown discrete memoryless channels in the presence of erasure/list option at the decoder, in the random coding regime. Specifically, we harness a universal version of Forney's classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Wasim Huleihel , Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

The minimum average number of bits need to describe a random variable is its entropy, assuming knowledge of the underlying statistics On the other hand, universal compression supposes that the distribution of the random variable, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Maryam Hosseini , Narayana Santhanam

We derive a general formula of the minimum achievable rate for fixed-to-variable length coding with a regular cost function by allowing the error probability up to a constant $\varepsilon$. For a fixed-to-variable length code, we call the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Hideki Yagi , Ryo Nomura

We consider the variable-to-fixed length lossy source coding (VFSC) problem. The optimal compression rate of the average length of variable-to-fixed source coding, allowing a non-vanishing probability of excess-distortion $\varepsilon$, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Lan V. Truong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Given a sufficient statistic for a parametric family of distributions, one can estimate the parameter without access to the data. However, the memory or code size for storing the sufficient statistic may nonetheless still be prohibitive.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Masahito Hayashi , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Weakly almost i.i.d. quantum sources are sequences of multipartite states whose fixed-size marginals converge, on average, to tensor powers of a reference state, while allowing arbitrary global correlations and entanglement. We establish…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Nilanjana Datta

We consider a Shannon cipher system for memoryless sources, in which distortion is allowed at the legitimate decoder. The source is compressed using a rate distortion code secured by a shared key, which satisfies a constraint on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

We construct an optimal quantum universal variable-length code that achieves the admissible minimum rate, i.e., our code is used for any probability distribution of quantum states. Its probability of exceeding the admissible minimum rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahito Hayashi , Keiji Matsumoto

We begin by presenting a simple lossy compressor operating at near-zero rate: The encoder merely describes the indices of the few maximal source components, while the decoder's reconstruction is a natural estimate of the source components…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Albert No , Tsachy Weissman

In this work, we consider a distributed source coding problem with a joint distortion criterion depending on the sources and the reconstruction. This includes as a special case the problem of computing a function of the sources to within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-21 Dinesh Krithivasan , S. Sandeep Pradhan

In this monograph, we review recent advances in second-order asymptotics for lossy source coding, which provides approximations to the finite blocklength performance of optimal codes. The monograph is divided into three parts. In part I, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Lin Zhou , Mehul Motani