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Audio coding is an essential module in the real-time communication system. Neural audio codecs can compress audio samples with a low bitrate due to the strong modeling and generative capabilities of deep neural networks. To address the poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Wenzhe Liu , Wei Xiao , Meng Wang , Shan Yang , Yupeng Shi , Yuyong Kang , Dan Su , Shidong Shang , Dong Yu

Flow-based generative models, conceptually attractive due to tractability of both the exact log-likelihood computation and latent-variable inference, and efficiency of both training and sampling, has led to a number of impressive empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Xuezhe Ma , Xiang Kong , Shanghang Zhang , Eduard Hovy

Deep learning models have significantly improved the visual quality and accuracy on compressive sensing recovery. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for signal reconstruction from compressed measurements with image priors captured by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Shaojie Xu , Sihan Zeng , Justin Romberg

We present a new algorithm for video coding, learned end-to-end for the low-latency mode. In this setting, our approach outperforms all existing video codecs across nearly the entire bitrate range. To our knowledge, this is the first…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-20 Oren Rippel , Sanjay Nair , Carissa Lew , Steve Branson , Alexander G. Anderson , Lubomir Bourdev

Locally repairable codes (LRCs) were originally introduced to enable efficient recovery from erasures in distributed storage systems by accessing only a small number of other symbols. While their structural properties-such as bounds and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hoang Ly , Emina Soljanin , Philip Whiting

Recent advanced diffusion methods typically derive strong generative priors by scaling diffusion transformers. However, scaling fails to generalize when adapted for real-time compression scenarios that demand lightweight models. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhaoyang Jia , Naifu Xue , Zihan Zheng , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Xiaoyi Zhang , Zongyu Guo , Yuan Zhang , Houqiang Li , Yan Lu

Node failures are inevitable in distributed storage systems (DSS). To enable efficient repair when faced with such failures, two main techniques are known: Regenerating codes, i.e., codes that minimize the total repair bandwidth; and codes…

Recently, probabilistic predictive coding that directly models the conditional distribution of latent features across successive frames for temporal redundancy removal has yielded promising results. Existing methods using a single-scale…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Ming Lu , Zhihao Duan , Fengqing Zhu , Zhan Ma

When deploying deep learning models to a device, it is traditionally assumed that available computational resources (compute, memory, and power) remain static. However, real-world computing systems do not always provide stable resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Elvis Nunez , Maxwell Horton , Anish Prabhu , Anurag Ranjan , Ali Farhadi , Mohammad Rastegari

A recent study showed that large language models (LLMs) can reconstruct surprisingly long texts - up to thousands of tokens - via autoregressive generation from just one trained input embedding. In this work, we explore whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Gleb Mezentsev , Ivan Oseledets

Empowered by the backpropagation (BP) algorithm, deep neural networks have dominated the race in solving various cognitive tasks. The restricted training pattern in the standard BP requires end-to-end error propagation, causing large memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wenzhe Guo , Mohammed E Fouda , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Khaled N. Salama

We propose and study the problem of distribution-preserving lossy compression. Motivated by recent advances in extreme image compression which allow to maintain artifact-free reconstructions even at very low bitrates, we propose to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Michael Tschannen , Eirikur Agustsson , Mario Lucic

Can we use machine learning to compress graph data? The absence of ordering in graphs poses a significant challenge to conventional compression algorithms, limiting their attainable gains as well as their ability to discover relevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Giorgos Bouritsas , Andreas Loukas , Nikolaos Karalias , Michael M. Bronstein

The likelihood encoder with a random codebook is demonstrated as an effective tool for source coding. Coupled with a soft covering lemma (associated with channel resolvability), likelihood encoders yield simple achievability proofs for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Paul Cuff , Eva C. Song

The entropy of the codes usually serves as the rate loss in the recent learned lossy image compression methods. Precise estimation of the probabilistic distribution of the codes plays a vital role in the performance. However, existing deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Mu Li , Kai Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Radu Timofte , David Zhang

Large language model (LLM) decoding involves generating a sequence of tokens based on a given context, where each token is predicted one at a time using the model's learned probabilities. The typical autoregressive decoding method requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Xukun Liu , Bowen Lei , Ruqi Zhang , Dongkuan Xu

The goal of this study is to develop an efficient numerical algorithm applicable to a wide range of compressible multicomponent flows. Although many highly efficient algorithms have been proposed for simulating each type of the flows, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-04 Roman Frolov

Predictive coding (PC) offers a local and biologically grounded alternative to backpropagation in the training of artificial neural networks, yet to date, it remains slower, and performance degrades sharply as network depth increases. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Aleksandrs Baskakovs , Sylvain Estebe , Kenneth Enevoldsen , Kristoffer Nielbo , Chris Mathys , Nicolas Legrand

Existing auto-regressive mesh generation approaches suffer from ineffective topology preservation, which is crucial for practical applications. This limitation stems from previous mesh tokenization methods treating meshes as simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Gaochao Song , Zibo Zhao , Haohan Weng , Jingbo Zeng , Rongfei Jia , Shenghua Gao

We develop novel protocols for generating loss-tolerant quantum codes; these are central for safeguarding information against qubit losses, with most crucial applications in quantum communications. Contrary to current proposals, our method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Francesco Cesa , Tommaso Feri , Angelo Bassi