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Wyner's soft-covering lemma is the central analysis step for achievability proofs of information theoretic security, resolvability, and channel synthesis. It can also be used for simple achievability proofs in lossy source coding. This work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Paul Cuff

The problem of determining the best achievable performance of arbitrary lossless compression algorithms is examined, when correlated side information is available at both the encoder and decoder. For arbitrary source-side information pairs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

This monograph presents a unified treatment of single- and multi-user problems in Shannon's information theory where we depart from the requirement that the error probability decays asymptotically in the blocklength. Instead, the error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Vincent Y. F. Tan

Classical information theory typically assumes reliable receiver-side processing. We study remote inference when communication is noisy and the receiver itself is built from unreliable components under a finite redundancy budget. Under a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zhenyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

A strong converse theorem for channel capacity establishes that the error probability in any communication scheme for a given channel necessarily tends to one if the rate of communication exceeds the channel's capacity. Establishing such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-15 Mark M. Wilde , Andreas Winter

We consider the compressible Oldroyd-B model derived in \cite{Barrett-Lu-Suli}, where the existence of global-in-time finite energy weak solutions was shown in two dimensional setting. In this paper, we first state a local well-posedness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-04 Yong Lu , Zhifei Zhang

Deterministic two-way transducers define the robust class of regular functions which is, among other good properties, closed under composition. However, the best known algorithms for composing two-way transducers cause a double exponential…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Luc Dartois , Paulin Fournier , Ismaël Jecker , Nathan Lhote

Although high-order Maxwell integral equation solvers provide significant advantages in terms of speed and accuracy over corresponding low-order integral methods, their performance significantly degrades in presence of non-smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Constantine Sideris , Davit Aslanyan , Oscar P. Bruno

The second-order achievable asymptotics in typical random number generation problems such as resolvability, intrinsic randomness, fixed-length source coding are considered. In these problems, several researchers have derived the first-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Ryo Nomura , Te Sun Han

We study the asymptotic dynamics for solutions to a system of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with cubic interactions, arising in nonlinear optics. We provide sharp threshold criteria leading to global well-posedness and scattering of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Alex H. Ardila , Van Duong Dinh , Luigi Forcella

We propose a framework for second-order achievability, called type deviation convergence, that is generally applicable to settings in network information theory, and is especially suitable for lossy source coding and channel coding with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Cheuk Ting Li

This paper studies the second-order asymptotics of the Gaussian multiple-access channel with degraded message sets. For a fixed average error probability $\varepsilon \in (0,1)$ and an arbitrary point on the boundary of the capacity region,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Jonathan Scarlett , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We verify the critical case $p=p_0(n)$ of Strauss' conjecture (1981) concerning the blow-up of solutions to semilinear wave equations with variable coefficients in $\mathbf{R}^n$, where $n\geq 2$. The perturbations of Laplace operator are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Kyouhei Wakasa , Borislav Yordanov

This paper presents a new derivation method of converse bounds on the non-asymptotic achievable rate of discrete weakly symmetric memoryless channels. It is based on the finite blocklength statistics of the channel, where with the use of an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Robert J. Piechocki , Angela Doufexi

Graph convolutions have gained popularity due to their ability to efficiently operate on data with an irregular geometric structure. However, graph convolutions cause over-smoothing, which refers to representations becoming more similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Andreas Roth

We evaluate the asymptotics of equivocations, their exponents as well as their second-order coding rates under various R\'{e}nyi information measures. Specifically, we consider the effect of applying a hash function on a source and we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Masahito Hayashi , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In this paper we present a simple proof of the strong converse for identification via discrete memoryless quantum channels, based on a novel covering lemma. The new method is a generalization to quantum communication channels of Ahlswede's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Ahlswede , A. Winter

We consider a sequence of blowup solutions of a two dimensional, second order elliptic equation with exponential nonlinearity and singular data. This equation has a rich background in physics and geometry. In a work of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-10-30 Lei Zhang

A new, fast second-order method is proposed that achieves the optimal $\mathcal{O}\left(|\log(\epsilon)|\epsilon^{-3/2}\right)$ complexity to obtain first-order $\epsilon$-stationary points. Crucially, this is deduced without assuming the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Serge Gratton , Sadok Jerad , Philippe L. Toint

We prove optimal concentration of measure for lifted functions on high dimensional expanders (HDX). Let $X$ be a $k$-dimensional HDX. We show for any $i\leq k$ and $f:X(i)\to [0,1]$: \[\Pr_{s\in X(k)}\left[\left|\underset{{t\subseteq…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yotam Dikstein , Max Hopkins