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The minimum distance of a code is an important concept in information theory. Hence, computing the minimum distance of a code with a minimum computational cost is a crucial process to many problems in this area. In this paper, we present…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Fernando Hernando , Francisco D. Igual , Gregorio Quintana-Ortí

Gaussian Processes (GPs) are widely used tools in statistics, machine learning, robotics, computer vision, and scientific computation. However, despite their popularity, they can be difficult to apply; all but the simplest classification or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Ulrich Schaechtle , Ben Zinberg , Alexey Radul , Kostas Stathis , Vikash K. Mansinghka

The problem of error-control in random linear network coding is considered. A ``noncoherent'' or ``channel oblivious'' model is assumed where neither transmitter nor receiver is assumed to have knowledge of the channel transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-25 Ralf Koetter , Frank Kschischang

As the mobile application landscape expands, wireless networks are tasked with supporting different connection profiles, including real-time traffic and delay-sensitive communications. Among many ensuing engineering challenges is the need…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Henry D. Pfister

This paper proposes Fulcrum network codes, a network coding framework that achieves three seemingly conflicting objectives: (i) to reduce the coding coefficient overhead to almost n bits per packet in a generation of n packets; (ii) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Daniel E. Lucani , Morten V. Pedersen , Diego Ruano , Chres W. Sørensen , Frank H. P. Fitzek , Janus Heide , Olav Geil

In this paper, we consider the so-called uniquely decodable one-to-one code (UDOOC) that is formed by inserting a "comma" indicator, termed the unique word (UW), between consecutive one-to-one codewords for separation. Along this research…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Chin-Fu Liu , Hsiao-feng Lu , Po-ning Chen

As it is known, universal codes, which estimate the entropy rate consistently, exist for stationary ergodic sources over finite alphabets but not over countably infinite ones. We generalize universal coding as the problem of universal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Łukasz Dębowski

LLMs are widely used for code generation and mathematical reasoning tasks where they are required to generate structured output. They either need to reason about code, generate code for a given specification, or reason using programs of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Poorva Garg , Renato Lui Geh , Daniel Israel , Todd Millstein , Kyle Richardson , Guy Van den Broeck

The problem of finding network codes for general connections is inherently difficult in capacity constrained networks. Resource minimization for general connections with network coding is further complicated. Existing methods for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Ying Cui , Muriel Médard , Fan Lai , Edmund Yeh , Douglas Leith , Ken Duffy , Dhaivat Pandya

The traditional methods for data compression are typically based on the symbol-level statistics, with the information source modeled as a long sequence of i.i.d. random variables or a stochastic process, thus establishing the fundamental…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mingxiao Li , Rui Jin , Liyao Xiang , Kaiming Shen , Shuguang Cui

When implementing unfamiliar programming tasks, developers commonly search code examples and learn usage patterns of APIs from the code examples or reuse them by copy-pasting and modifying. For providing high-quality code examples, previous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-07 He Jiang , Liming Nie , Zeyi Sun , Zhilei Ren , Weiqiang Kong , Tao Zhang , Xiapu Luo

Slow running or straggler tasks can significantly reduce computation speed in distributed computation. Recently, coding-theory-inspired approaches have been applied to mitigate the effect of straggling, through embedding redundancy in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-24 Can Karakus , Yifan Sun , Suhas Diggavi , Wotao Yin

An important part of the information theory folklore had been about the output statistics of codes that achieve the capacity and how the empirical distributions compare to the output distributions induced by the optimal input in the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Alptug Aytekin , Mohamed Nomeir , Lei Hu , Sennur Ulukus

We introduce an algorithm for the uniform generation of infinite traces, i.e., infinite words up to commutation of some letters. The algorithm outputs on-the-fly approximations of a theoretical infinite trace, the latter being distributed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Samy Abbes , Vincent Jugé

In this paper we introduce the class of Spread Codes for the use in random network coding. Spread Codes are based on the construction of spreads in finite projective geometry. The major contribution of the paper is an efficient decoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Felice Manganiello , Elisa Gorla , Joachim Rosenthal

Given the widespread use of lossless compression algorithms to approximate algorithmic (Kolmogorov-Chaitin) complexity, and that lossless compression algorithms fall short at characterizing patterns other than statistical ones not different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Fernando Soler-Toscano , Hector Zenil

This paper considers the achievability and converse bounds on the maximal channel coding rate at a given blocklength and error probability over AWGN channels. The problem stems from covert communication with Gaussian codewords. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqin Wei , Yuan Luo

We show how universal codes can be used for solving some of the most important statistical problems for time series. By definition, a universal code (or a universal lossless data compressor) can compress any sequence generated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Boris Ryabko

Non-overlapping codes are block codes that have arisen in diverse contexts of computer science and biology. Applications typically require finding non-overlapping codes with large cardinalities, but the maximum size of non-overlapping codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Lidija Stanovnik , Miha Moškon , Miha Mraz

We study first-order optimization algorithms under the constraint that the descent direction is quantized using a pre-specified budget of $R$-bits per dimension, where $R \in (0 ,\infty)$. We propose computationally efficient optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Rajarshi Saha , Mert Pilanci , Andrea J. Goldsmith