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State-of-the-art text-to-image models generate photorealistic images at an unprecedented speed. This work focuses on models that operate in a bitwise autoregressive manner over a discrete set of tokens that is practically infinite in size.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Louis Kerner , Michel Meintz , Bihe Zhao , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic

A graph generative model defines a distribution over graphs. One type of generative model is constructed by autoregressive neural networks, which sequentially add nodes and edges to generate a graph. However, the likelihood of a graph under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-15 Xiaohui Chen , Xu Han , Jiajing Hu , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , Liping Liu

Sequential data is being generated at an unprecedented pace in various forms, including text and genomic data. This creates the need for efficient compression mechanisms to enable better storage, transmission and processing of such data. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Mohit Goyal , Kedar Tatwawadi , Shubham Chandak , Idoia Ochoa

We propose a new approach to the problem of optimizing autoencoders for lossy image compression. New media formats, changing hardware technology, as well as diverse requirements and content types create a need for compression algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-02 Lucas Theis , Wenzhe Shi , Andrew Cunningham , Ferenc Huszár

Lossless image compression is required in various applications to reduce storage or transmission costs of images, while requiring the reconstructed images to have zero information loss compared to the original. Existing lossless image…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Samar Agnihotri , Renu Rameshan , Ritwik Ghosal

Designing channel codes under low-latency constraints is one of the most demanding requirements in 5G standards. However, a sharp characterization of the performance of traditional codes is available only in the large block-length limit.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-27 Yihan Jiang , Hyeji Kim , Himanshu Asnani , Sreeram Kannan , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

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, practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Johannes Ballé , Elza Erkip

Lossless image coding is a crucial task especially in the medical area, e.g., for volumes from Computed Tomography or Magnetic Resonance Tomography. Besides lossless coding, compensated wavelet lifting offers a scalable representation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Wolfgang Schnurrer , Tobias Tröger , Thomas Richter , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

This paper considers the problem of variable-length lossy source coding. The performance criteria are the excess distortion probability and the cumulant generating function of codeword lengths. We derive a non-asymptotic fundamental limit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Shota Saito , Toshiyasu Matsushima

The compression-complexity trade-off of lossy compression algorithms that are based on a random codebook or a random database is examined. Motivated, in part, by recent results of Gupta-Verd\'{u}-Weissman (GVW) and their underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-23 Chris Gioran , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

The autoregressive decoding for text generation in large language models (LLMs), while widely used, is inherently suboptimal due to the lack of a built-in mechanism to perform refinement and/or correction of the generated content. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zeyu Tang , Zhenhao Chen , Xiangchen Song , Loka Li , Yunlong Deng , Yifan Shen , Guangyi Chen , Peter Spirtes , Kun Zhang

The sequential nature of autoregressive next-token prediction imposes a fundamental speed limit on large language models. While continuous flow models offer a path to parallel generation, they traditionally demand expensive iterative…

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances coding tasks by incorporating retrieved code examples into prompts. However, lengthy prompts, often exceeding tens of thousands of tokens, introduce challenges related to limited context windows…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Pengfei He , Shaowei Wang , Tse-Hsun Chen

A large amount of recent research has the far-reaching goal of finding training methods for deep neural networks that can serve as alternatives to backpropagation (BP). A prominent example is predictive coding (PC), which is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Luca Pinchetti , Tommaso Salvatori , Yordan Yordanov , Beren Millidge , Yuhang Song , Thomas Lukasiewicz

For dynamic human motion sequences, the original KeyNode-Driven codec often struggles to retain compression efficiency when confronted with rapid movements or strong non-rigid deformations. This paper proposes a novel Bi-modal coding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Huong Hoang , Keito Suzuki , Truong Nguyen , Pamela Cosman

Rate-distortion optimization through neural networks has accomplished competitive results in compression efficiency and image quality. This learning-based approach seeks to minimize the compromise between compression rate and reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Raül Pérez-Gonzalo , Andreas Espersen , Antonio Agudo

Universal compression of patterns of sequences generated by independently identically distributed (i.i.d.) sources with unknown, possibly large, alphabets is investigated. A pattern is a sequence of indices that contains all consecutive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gil I. Shamir

Necessary conditions for asymptotically optimal sliding-block or stationary codes for source coding and rate-constrained simulation of memoryless sources are presented and used to motivate a design technique for trellis-encoded source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-24 Mark Z. Mao , Robert M. Gray , Tamas Linder

At the present scenario of the internet, there exist many optimization techniques to improve the Web speed but almost expensive in terms of bandwidth. So after a long investigation on different techniques to compress the data without any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Hemant Kumar Saini , Satpal Singh Kushwaha , C. Rama Krishna

Early works on medical image compression date to the 1980's with the impetus on deployment of teleradiology systems for high-resolution digital X-ray detectors. Commercially deployed systems during the period could compress 4,096 x 4,096…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Aupendu Kar , Sri Phani Krishna Karri , Nirmalya Ghosh , Ramanathan Sethuraman , Debdoot Sheet