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We study "active" decision making over sensor networks where the sensors' sequential probing actions are actively chosen by continuously learning from past observations. We consider two network settings: with and without central…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-30 Anshuka Rangi , Massimo Franceschetti , Stefano Marano

We revisit the outlier hypothesis testing framework of Li \emph{et al.} (TIT 2014) and derive fundamental limits for the optimal test under the generalized Neyman-Pearson criterion. In outlier hypothesis testing, one is given multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Lin Zhou , Yun Wei , Alfred Hero

We study the binary hypothesis testing problem where an adversary may potentially corrupt a fraction of the samples. The detector is, however, permitted to abstain from making a decision if (and only if) the adversary is present. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Malhar A. Managoli , K. R. Sahasranand , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We study error exponents for the problem of relaying a message over a tandem of two channels sharing the same transition law, in particular moving beyond the 1-bit setting studied in recent related works. Our main results show that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yan Hao Ling , Jonathan Scarlett

Consider a countably infinite set of nodes, which sequentially make decisions between two given hypotheses. Each node takes a measurement of the underlying truth, observes the decisions from some immediate predecessors, and makes a decision…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-12 Zhenliang Zhang , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki , William Moran

This paper studies the distributed optimization problem under the influence of heavy-tailed gradient noises. Here, a heavy-tailed noise means that the noise does not necessarily satisfy the bounded variance assumption. Instead, it satisfies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Chao Sun , Huiming Zhang , Bo Chen , Li Yu

Group testing has recently attracted significant attention from the research community due to its applications in diagnostic virology. An instance of the group testing problem includes a ground set of individuals which includes a small…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Esmaeil Karimi , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Krishna R. Narayanan , Alex Sprintson

We consider the problem of hypothesis testing for discrete distributions. In the standard model, where we have sample access to an underlying distribution $p$, extensive research has established optimal bounds for uniformity testing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Piotr Indyk , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal

We consider in this paper the information-theoretic secure key distribution problem over main and wire-tap noise channels with a public discussion in presence of an active adversary. In contrast to the solution proposed by ourselves for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-19 Viktor Yakovlev , Valery Korzhik , Guillermo Morales-Luna , Mihail Bakaev

Information theoretic secret key agreement is impossible without making initial assumptions. One type of initial assumption is correlated random variables that are generated by using a noisy channel that connects the terminals. Terminals…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Alireza Poostindouz , Reihaneh Safavi-Naini

We study the problem of communication over a compound quantum channel in the presence of entanglement. Classically such channels are modeled as a collection of conditional probability distributions wherein neither the sender nor the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Anurag Anshu , Rahul Jain , Naqueeb Ahmad Warsi

A central problem in Binary Hypothesis Testing (BHT) is to determine the optimal tradeoff between the Type I error (referred to as false alarm) and Type II (referred to as miss) error. In this context, the exponential rate of convergence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Sebastian Espinosa , Jorge F. Silva , Pablo Piantanida

A generic qubit unitary operator affected by depolarizing noise is duplicated and inserted in a quantum switch process realizing a superposition of causal orders. The characterization of the resulting switched quantum channel is worked out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Francois Chapeau-Blondeau

We consider a basic communication and sensing setup comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a sensor. The transmitter sends an encoded sequence to the receiver through a discrete memoryless channel, and the receiver is interested in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh

We characterize the Stein-exponent of a distributed hypothesis testing scenario where two sensors transmit information through a memoryless multiple access channel (MAC) subject to a sublinear input cost constraint with respect to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Cécile Bouette , Michèle Wigger

The problem of binary hypothesis testing between two probability measures is considered. New sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable error probability of such tests based on independent and identically distributed observations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Valentinian Lungu , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We study the problem of synthesising a two-user broadcast channel using a common message, where each output terminal shares an independent source of randomness with the input terminal. This generalises two problems studied in the literature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Malhar A. Managoli , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We investigate the problem of jointly testing two hypotheses and estimating a random parameter based on data that is observed sequentially by sensors in a distributed network. In particular, we assume the data to be drawn from a Gaussian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Dominik Reinhard , Michael Fauß , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

This paper considers a problem of distributed hypothesis testing and social learning. Individual nodes in a network receive noisy local (private) observations whose distribution is parameterized by a discrete parameter (hypotheses). The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Anusha Lalitha , Tara Javidi , Anand Sarwate

In distributed hypothesis testing, a central server performs hypothesis testing based on information received from distributed sensors/clients. We study a secure variant of this problem in which the central server determines the hypothesis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gowtham R. Kurri , Varun Narayanan , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , K. R. Sahasranand