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Normalizing flows are a powerful class of generative models for continuous random variables, showing both strong model flexibility and the potential for non-autoregressive generation. These benefits are also desired when modeling discrete…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-06 Zachary M. Ziegler , Alexander M. Rush

Generative models have demonstrated strong performance in conditional settings and can be viewed as a form of data compression, where the condition serves as a compact representation. However, their limited controllability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiao Li , Liangji Zhu , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

We address the problem of efficiently compressing video for conferencing-type applications. We build on recent approaches based on image animation, which can achieve good reconstruction quality at very low bitrate by representing face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Goluck Konuko , Stéphane Lathuilière , Giuseppe Valenzise

Lossless image compression is an important technique for image storage and transmission when information loss is not allowed. With the fast development of deep learning techniques, deep neural networks have been used in this field to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Honglei Zhang , Francesco Cricri , Hamed R. Tavakoli , Nannan Zou , Emre Aksu , Miska M. Hannuksela

This paper describes universal lossless coding strategies for compressing sources on countably infinite alphabets. Classes of memoryless sources defined by an envelope condition on the marginal distribution provide benchmarks for coding…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Stéphane Boucheron , Aurélien Garivier , Elisabeth Gassiat

Recent advances in deep generative modeling have enabled efficient modeling of high dimensional data distributions and opened up a new horizon for solving data compression problems. Specifically, autoencoder based learned image or video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Adam Golinski , Reza Pourreza , Yang Yang , Guillaume Sautiere , Taco S Cohen

In this paper we analyse and improve integer discrete flows for lossless compression. Integer discrete flows are a recently proposed class of models that learn invertible transformations for integer-valued random variables. Their discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Rianne van den Berg , Alexey A. Gritsenko , Mostafa Dehghani , Casper Kaae Sønderby , Tim Salimans

The large memory requirements of deep neural networks limit their deployment and adoption on many devices. Model compression methods effectively reduce the memory requirements of these models, usually through applying transformations such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Brandon Reagen , Udit Gupta , Robert Adolf , Michael M. Mitzenmacher , Alexander M. Rush , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

Soft compression is a lossless image compression method, which is committed to eliminating coding redundancy and spatial redundancy at the same time by adopting locations and shapes of codebook to encode an image from the perspective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Gangtao Xin , Pingyi Fan

Machine learning algorithms are typically run on large scale, distributed compute infrastructure that routinely face a number of unavailabilities such as failures and temporary slowdowns. Adding redundant computations using coding-theoretic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jack Kosaian , K. V. Rashmi , Shivaram Venkataraman

Fountain codes are rateless erasure-correcting codes, i.e., an essentially infinite stream of encoded packets can be generated from a finite set of data packets. Several fountain codes have been proposed recently to minimize overhead, many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-08 Kai Fong Ernest Chong , Ernest Kurniawan , Sumei Sun , Kai Yen

Popularized by their strong image generation performance, diffusion and related methods for generative modeling have found widespread success in visual media applications. In particular, diffusion methods have enabled new approaches to data…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Yibo Yang , Stephan Mandt

We consider lossy compression of an information source when the decoder has lossless access to a correlated one. This setup, also known as the Wyner-Ziv problem, is a special case of distributed source coding. To this day, real-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Johannes Ballé , Elza Erkip

Most data is automatically collected and only ever "seen" by algorithms. Yet, data compressors preserve perceptual fidelity rather than just the information needed by algorithms performing downstream tasks. In this paper, we characterize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yann Dubois , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Karen Ullrich , Chris J. Maddison

In-context learning has established itself as an important learning paradigm for Large Language Models (LLMs). In this paper, we demonstrate that LLMs can learn encoding keys in-context and perform analysis directly on encoded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Andresa Rodrigues de Campos , David Lee , Imry Kissos , Piyush Paritosh

Algorithms, data structures, coding techniques, and other methods that reduce bit-flips are being sought to best utilize hardware where flipping bits is the dominating cost. Write efficient memories were introduced by Ahlswede and Zhang as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Matthew Gray

We derive an algorithm for compression of the currents and varifolds representations of shapes, using ridge leverage score (RLS) sampling, and the theory of Nystrom approximation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. Our method is faster…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Allen Paul , Neill Campbell , Tony Shardlow

Coded distributed computation has become common practice for performing gradient descent on large datasets to mitigate stragglers and other faults. This paper proposes a novel algorithm that encodes the partial derivatives themselves and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Pedro Soto , Ilia Ilmer , Haibin Guan , Jun Li

In information theory, lossless compression of general data is based on an explicit assumption of a stochastic generative model on target data. However, in lossless image compression, the researchers have mainly focused on the coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yuta Nakahara , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Machine learning has had a major impact on data compression over the last decade and inspired many new, exciting theoretical and applied questions. This paper describes one such direction -- relative entropy coding -- which focuses on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Gergely Flamich , Deniz Gündüz