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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

Lossless variable-length source coding with unequal cost function is considered for general sources. In this problem, the codeword cost instead of codeword length is important. The infimum of average codeword cost has already been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Ryo Nomura , Toshiyasu Matsushima

In this work we investigate the behavior of the minimal rate needed in order to guarantee a given probability that the distortion exceeds a prescribed threshold, at some fixed finite quantization block length. We show that the excess coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Amir Ingber , Yuval Kochman

This paper considers the joint compression of a pair of correlated sources, where the encoder is allowed to access only one of the sources. The objective is to recover both sources under separate distortion constraints for each source while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Huiyuan Yang , Yuxuan Shi , Shuo Shao , Xiaojun Yuan

Past works on remote lossy source coding studied the rate under average distortion and the error exponent of excess distortion probability. In this work, we look into how fast the excess distortion probability converges to 1 at small rates,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh

Based on the problem of quantum data compression in a lossless way, we present here an operational interpretation for the family of quantum R\'enyi entropies. In order to do this, we appeal to a very general quantum encoding scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 G. Bellomo , G. M. Bosyk , F. Holik , S. Zozor

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

The error exponent of fixed-length lossy source coding was established by Marton. Ahlswede showed that this exponent can be discontinuous at a rate $R$, depending on the probability distribution $P$ of the given information source and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yutaka Jitsumatsu

This paper shows new general nonasymptotic achievability and converse bounds and performs their dispersion analysis for the lossy compression problem in which the compressor observes the source through a noisy channel. While this problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

Focal loss has recently gained significant popularity, particularly in tasks like object detection where it helps to address class imbalance by focusing more on hard-to-classify examples. This work proposes the focal loss as a distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

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

In this paper we study the nonasymptotic bounds of a special Joint Source-Channel Coding system with hierarchical source, where an observable source and an unobservable indirect source are required to be reconstructed. Namely, we focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shuo Shao , Chao Qi , Jincheng Dai

The zero-error channel capacity is the maximum asymptotic rate that can be reached with error probability exactly zero, instead of a vanishing error probability. The nature of this problem, essentially combinatorial rather than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Nicolas Charpenay , Maël Le Treust

We examine the coordinated and universal rate-efficient sampling of a subset of correlated discrete memoryless sources followed by lossy compression of the sampled sources. The goal is to reconstruct a predesignated subset of sources within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Vinay Praneeth Boda , Prakash Narayan

The error exponent in lossy source coding characterizes the asymptotic decay rate of error probability with respect to blocklength. The Marton's error exponent provides the theoretically optimal bound on this rate. However, computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiachuan Ye , Shitong Wu , Lingyi Chen , Wenyi Zhang , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu

We present new lower and upper bounds for the compression rate of binary prefix codes optimized over memoryless sources according to two related exponential codeword length objectives. The objectives explored here are exponential-average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Michael B. Baer

In this paper, we consider a class of multiterminal source coding problems, each subject to distortion constraints computed using a specific, entropy-based, distortion measure. We provide the achievable rate distortion region for two cases…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-02 Thomas Courtade , Richard Wesel

The recent work of Kleinberg & Mullainathan [KM24] provides a concrete model for language generation in the limit: given a sequence of examples from an unknown target language, the goal is to generate new examples from the target language…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Moses Charikar , Chirag Pabbaraju

Motivated from the fact that universal source coding on countably infinite alphabets is not feasible, this work introduces the notion of almost lossless source coding. Analog to the weak variable-length source coding problem studied by Han…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jorge F. Silva , Pablo Piantanida

A general multi-terminal source code and a general multi-terminal channel code are presented. Constrained-random-number generators with sparse matrices, which are building blocks for the code construction, are used in the construction of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Jun Muramatsu , Shigeki Miyake