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The quantum hashing bound guarantees that rates up to $1-H(p_I, p_X, p_Y, p_Z)$ are achievable for memoryless Pauli channels, but it is not generally tight. A known way to improve achievable rates for certain asymmetric Pauli channels is to…

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We study how to best spend a budget of noisy labels to compare the accuracy of two binary classifiers. It's common practice to collect and aggregate multiple noisy labels for a given data point into a less noisy label via a majority vote.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Florian E. Dorner , Moritz Hardt

This paper considers the identification of FIR systems, where information about the inputs and outputs of the system undergoes quantization into binary values before transmission to the estimator. In the case where the thresholds of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Alex S. Leong , Erik Weyer , Girish N. Nair

We introduce a simply stated conjecture regarding the maximum mutual information a Boolean function can reveal about noisy inputs. Specifically, let $X^n$ be i.i.d. Bernoulli(1/2), and let $Y^n$ be the result of passing $X^n$ through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-16 Gowtham R. Kumar , Thomas A. Courtade

An analog communication channel typically achieves its full capacity when the distribution of inputs is discrete, composed of just K symbols, such as voltage levels or wavelengths. As the effective noise level goes to zero, for example by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-07 Michael C. Abbott , Benjamin B. Machta

Consider a channel with a given input alphabet size and a given input distribution. Our aim is to degrade or upgrade it to a channel with at most L output letters. The paper contains four main results. The first result, from which the paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Assaf Kartowsky , Ido Tal

Current massive datasets demand light-weight access for analysis. Discrete hashing methods are thus beneficial because they map high-dimensional data to compact binary codes that are efficient to store and process, while preserving semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yunqiang Li , Wenjie Pei , Yufei zha , Jan van Gemert

In Tokenization and the Noiseless Channel (Zouhar et al., 2023a), R\'enyi efficiency is suggested as an intrinsic mechanism for evaluating a tokenizer: for NLP tasks, the tokenizer which leads to the highest R\'enyi efficiency of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Marco Cognetta , Vilém Zouhar , Sangwhan Moon , Naoaki Okazaki

The goal of a denoising algorithm is to recover a signal from its noise-corrupted observations. Perfect recovery is seldom possible and performance is measured under a given single-letter fidelity criterion. For discrete signals corrupted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 George Gemelos , Styrmir Sigurjonsson , Tsachy Weissman

An information measure based on fractional partitions of a set is used to derive a general dependence balance inequality for communication. This inequality is used to obtain new upper bounds on reliable and secret rates for multiterminal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Amin Gohari , Gerhard Kramer

Channel output quantization plays a vital role in high-speed emerging memories such as the spin-torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM), where high-precision analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are not applicable. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Zhen Mei , Kui Cai , Long Shi

After being trained, classifiers must often operate on data that has been corrupted by noise. In this paper, we consider the impact of such noise on the features of binary classifiers. Inspired by tools for classifier robustness, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-09 Frederic Sala , Shahroze Kabir , Guy Van den Broeck , Lara Dolecek

We study the maximum achievable differential entropy at the output of a system assigning to each input X the sum X+N, with N a given noise with probability law absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure and where the input…

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This work considers communication networks where individual links can be described as MIMO channels. Unlike orthogonal modulation methods (such as the singular-value decomposition), we allow interference between sub-channels, which can be…

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A new outer bound on the capacity region of Gaussian interference channels is developed. The bound combines and improves existing genie-aided methods and is shown to give the sum-rate capacity for noisy interference as defined in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Xiaohu Shang , Gerhard Kramer , Biao Chen

A fundamental question in information theory is to quantify the loss of information under a noisy channel. Partial orders and contraction coefficients are typical tools to that end, however, they are often also challenging to evaluate. For…

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Every channel can be expressed as a convex combination of deterministic channels with each deterministic channel corresponding to one particular intrinsic state. Such convex combinations are in general not unique, each giving rise to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Shengtian Yang , Rui Xu , Jun Chen , Jian-Kang Zhang

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Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Rodrigo de Miguel , Ori Shental , Ralf R. Muller , Ido Kanter

We address binary phase-shift-keyed communication channels based on Gaussian states and prove that squeezing improves state discrimination at fixed energy of the channel, also in the presence of phase diffusion. We then assess performances…

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