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Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

We study the document exchange problem under multiple substring edits. A substring edit in a string $\mathbf{x}$ occurs when a substring $\mathbf{u}$ of $\mathbf{x}$ is replaced by an arbitrary string $\mathbf{v}$. The lengths of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hrishi Narayanan , Vinayak Ramkumar , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

In this paper, we consider a network of processors aiming at cooperatively solving mixed-integer convex programs subject to uncertainty. Each node only knows a common cost function and its local uncertain constraint set. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Francesco Sasso , Roland Bouffanais

Variational inequalities are a broad and flexible class of problems that includes minimization, saddle point, and fixed point problems as special cases. Therefore, variational inequalities are used in various applications ranging from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Aleksandr Beznosikov , Martin Takáč , Alexander Gasnikov

Error Correction Codes (ECC) are fundamental to reliable digital communication, yet designing neural decoders that are both accurate and computationally efficient remains challenging. Recent denoising diffusion decoders achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Haoyu Lei , Chin Wa Lau , Kaiwen Zhou , Nian Guo , Farzan Farnia

We investigate the randomized and quantum communication complexity of the Hamming Distance problem, which is to determine if the Hamming distance between two n-bit strings is no less than a threshold d. We prove a quantum lower bound of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-04 Wei Huang , Yaoyun Shi , Shengyu Zhang , Yufan Zhu

The moderate deviation regime is concerned with the finite block length trade-off between communication cost and error for information processing tasks in the asymptotic regime, where the communication cost approaches a capacity-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Navneeth Ramakrishnan , Marco Tomamichel , Mario Berta

We introduce generalized function-correcting partition codes (GFCPCs) that simultaneously protect multiple partitions of the message space against different numbers of errors. Given partitions with respective distance requirements, a GFCPC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Charul Rajput , Mahak , V. Lalitha

In this paper, we study unconstrained distributed optimization strongly convex problems, in which the exchange of information in the network is captured by a directed graph topology over digital channels that have limited capacity (and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Apostolos I. Rikos , Wei Jiang , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

We propose a communication- and computation-efficient distributed optimization algorithm using second-order information for solving empirical risk minimization (ERM) problems with a nonsmooth regularization term. Our algorithm is applicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Ching-pei Lee , Cong Han Lim , Stephen J. Wright

In this paper we investigate the \emph{approximate string matching problem} when the allowed edit operations are \emph{non-overlapping unbalanced translocations of adjacent factors}. Such kind of edit operations take place when two adjacent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Domenico Cantone , Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone

We consider the problem of estimating the arithmetic average of a finite collection of real vectors stored in a distributed fashion across several compute nodes subject to a communication budget constraint. Our analysis does not rely on any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Jakub Konečný , Peter Richtárik

Index coding is a source coding problem in which a broadcaster seeks to meet the different demands of several users, each of whom is assumed to have some prior information on the data held by the sender. If the sender knows its clients'…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Eimear Byrne , Marco Calderini

A problem of index coding with side information was first considered by Y. Birk and T. Kol (IEEE INFOCOM, 1998). In the present work, a generalization of index coding scheme, where transmitted symbols are subject to errors, is studied.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-01-17 Son Hoang Dau , Vitaly Skachek , Yeow Meng Chee

This paper addresses the problem of collaborative navigation in an unknown environment, where two robots, referred to in the sequel as the Seeker and the Supporter, traverse the space simultaneously. The Supporter assists the Seeker by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ali Reza Pedram , Evangelos Psomiadis , Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

In this paper, the problem of wireless resource allocation and semantic information extraction for energy efficient semantic communications over wireless networks with rate splitting is investigated. In the considered model, a base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chongwen Huang

This paper considers the problem of simultaneously communicating two messages, a high-security message and a low-security message, to a legitimate receiver, referred to as the security embedding problem. An information-theoretic formulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-09 Hung D. Ly , Tie Liu , Yufei Blankenship

Effective task-oriented semantic communications relies on perfect knowledge alignment between transmitters and receivers for accurate recovery of task-related semantic information, which can be susceptible to knowledge misalignment and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Hong Chen , Fang Fang , Xianbin Wang

The construction of asymmetric error correcting codes is a topic that was studied extensively, however, the existing approach for code construction assumes that every codeword should tolerate $t$ asymmetric errors. Our main observation is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Hongchao Zhou , Anxiao , Jiang , Jehoshua Bruck

Error correction code (ECC) is an integral part of the physical communication layer, ensuring reliable data transfer over noisy channels. Recently, neural decoders have demonstrated their advantage over classical decoding techniques.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf