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This paper investigates the cross-layer optimization of fast video delivery and caching for minimization of the overall video delivery time in a two-hop relaying network. The half-duplex relay nodes are equipped with both a cache and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Lin Xiang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Toufiqul Islam , Robert Schober , Vincent W. S. Wong

Deep reinforcement learning enables algorithms to learn complex behavior, deal with continuous action spaces and find good strategies in environments with high dimensional state spaces. With deep reinforcement learning being an active area…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Winfried Lötzsch

The performance of existing coded caching schemes is sensitive to the worst channel quality, a problem which is exacerbated when communicating over fading channels. In this paper, we address this limitation in the following manner: in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Apostolos Destounis , Asma Ghorbel , Georgios S. Paschos , Mari Kobayashi

Coded caching is used to reduce network congestion during peak hours. A single server is connected to a set of users through a bottleneck link, which generally is assumed to be error-free. During non-peak hours, all the users have full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Nujoom Sageer Karat , Anoop Thomas , B. Sundar Rajan

Coded caching has the potential to greatly reduce network traffic by leveraging the cheap and abundant storage available in end-user devices so as to create multicast opportunities in the delivery phase. In the seminal work by Maddah-Ali…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

Several learned policies have been proposed to replace heuristics for scheduling, caching, and other system components in modern systems. By leveraging diverse features, learning from historical trends, and predicting future behaviors, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Samuel Yuan , Divyanshu Saxena , Jiayi Chen , Nihal Sharma , Aditya Akella

Caching is an efficient way to reduce network traffic congestion during peak hours by storing some content at the users' local caches. For the shared-link network with end-user-caches, Maddah-Ali and Niesen proposed a two-phase coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Kai Wan , Daniela Tuninetti , Mingyue Ji , Pablo Piantanida

Recommender systems can mitigate the information overload problem by suggesting users' personalized items. In real-world recommendations such as e-commerce, a typical interaction between the system and its users is -- users are recommended…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Xiangyu Zhao , Long Xia , Liang Zhang , Zhuoye Ding , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

Design of distributed caching mechanisms is considered as an active area of research due to its promising solution in reducing data load in the backhaul link of a cellular network. In this paper, the problem of distributed content caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 S. Krishnendu , B. N. Bharath , Navneet Garg , Vimal Bhatia , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

Deep learning has enabled traditional reinforcement learning methods to deal with high-dimensional problems. However, one of the disadvantages of deep reinforcement learning methods is the limited exploration capacity of learning agents. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Thanh Nguyen , Ngoc Duy Nguyen , Saeid Nahavandi

Introducing cooperative coded caching into small cell networks is a promising approach to reducing traffic loads. By encoding content via maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, coded fragments can be collectively cached at small-cell base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Xiongwei Wu , Jun Li , Ming Xiao , P. C. Ching , H. Vincent Poor

Coded multicasting has been shown to improve the caching performance of content delivery networks with multiple caches downstream of a common multicast link. However, the schemes that have been shown to achieve order-optimal perfor- mance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-25 Mingyue Ji , Karthikeyan Shanmugam , Giuseppe Vettigli , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Giuseppe Caire

We consider a cache network in which a single server is connected to multiple users via a shared error free link. The server has access to a database with $N$ files of equal length $F$, and serves $K$ users each with a cache memory of $MF$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Jesús Gómez-Vilardebó

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents improve through trial-and-error, but when reward is sparse and the agent cannot discover successful action sequences, learning stagnates. This has been a notable problem in training deep RL agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Evan Zheran Liu , Kelvin Guu , Panupong Pasupat , Tianlin Shi , Percy Liang

We study the problem of coded caching with nonuniform file popularity under the setting where the popularity distribution is initially unknown. By reframing the problem, we propose a method inspired by an algorithm from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Mohammadsaber Bahadori , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Behnam Bahrak

LLMs demonstrate surface-level fluency in code generation but struggle with structured reasoning tasks requiring correctness and semantic alignment. While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting enhances reasoning through intermediate steps, it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xunzhu Tang , Iyiola Emmanuel Olatunji , Tiezhu Sun , Jacques Klein , Tegawende F. Bissyande

Recently, wireless caching techniques have been studied to satisfy lower delay requirements and offload traffic from peak periods. By storing parts of the popular files at the mobile users, users can locate some of their requested files in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Yi Li , M. Cenk Gursoy , Senem Velipasalar

In order to preserve the privacy of the users demands from other users, in this paper we formulate a novel information theoretic Device-to-Device (D2D) private caching model by adding a trusted server. In the delivery phase, the trusted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Daniela Tuninetti , Giuseppe Caire

This paper discusses a system that accelerates reinforcement learning by using transfer from related tasks. Without such transfer, even if two tasks are very similar at some abstract level, an extensive re-learning effort is required. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-10 C. Drummond

We study the performance of caching schemes based on LT under peeling (iterative) decoding algorithm. We assume that users ask for downloading content to multiple cache-aided transmitters. Transmitters are connected through a backhaul link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Estefanía Recayte , Francisco Lázaro , Gianluigi Liva