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We develop a simple Quantile Spacing (QS) method for accurate probabilistic estimation of one-dimensional entropy from equiprobable random samples, and compare it with the popular Bin-Counting (BC) method. In contrast to BC, which uses…

Motivated by the work of Uehara et al. [1], an improved method to recover DC coefficients from AC coefficients of DCT-transformed images is investigated in this work, which finds applications in cryptanalysis of selective multimedia…

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Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) achieves data compression by quantizing Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coefficients, which inevitably introduces compression artifacts. Most existing JPEG quality enhancement methods operate in the…

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One of the most promising techniques used for studying the electronic properties of materials is based on Density Functional Theory (DFT) approach and its extensions. DFT has been widely applied in traditional solid state physics problems…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-03 Nicola Varini , Davide Ceresoli , Layla Martin-Samos , Ivan Girotto , Carlo Cavazzoni

Graph based codes such as low density parity check (LDPC) codes have been shown promising for the information reconciliation phase in quantum key distribution (QKD). However, existing graph coding schemes have not fully utilized the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Siyi Yang , Murat Can Sarihan , Kai-Chi Chang , Chee Wei Wong , Lara Dolecek

The entropy bottleneck introduced by Ball\'e et al. is a common component used in many learned compression models. It encodes a transformed latent representation using a static distribution whose parameters are learned during training.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Mateen Ulhaq , Ivan V. Bajić

Quasi-probability decompositions (QPDs) have proven essential in many quantum algorithms and protocols -- one replaces a ``difficult'' quantum circuit with an ensemble of ``easier'' circuit variants whose weighted outcomes reproduce any…

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This paper investigates the characteristics of energy detection (ED) over composite $\kappa$-$\mu$ shadowed fading channels in ultra machine-type communication (mMTC) networks. We have derived the closed-form expressions of the probability…

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This paper explores the process of optimal quantization for several types of discrete probability distributions. Quantization is a technique used to approximate a complex distribution with a smaller set of representative points, which is…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Russel Cabasag , Samir Huq , Eric Mendoza , Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

We study the problem of efficient compression of a stochastic source of probability distributions. It can be viewed as a generalization of Shannon's source coding problem. It has relation to the theory of common randomness, as well as to…

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We consider a generalization of the discrete memoryless channel, in which the channel probability distribution is replaced by a uniform distribution over clouds of channel output sequences. For a random ensemble of such channels, we derive…

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The basic goal of quantization for probability distribution is to reduce the number of values, which is typically uncountable, describing a probability distribution to some finite set and thus approximation of a continuous probability…

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The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is a central tool for image and video coding because it can be related to the Karhunen-Lo\`eve transform (KLT), which is the optimal transform in terms of retained transform coefficients and data…

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We approach the Generalized Beta (GB) family of distributions using a mean-reverting stochastic differential equation (SDE) for a power of the variable, whose steady-state (stationary) probability density function (PDF) is a modified GB…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2023-07-10 Jiong Liu , R. A. Serota

Transformations for enhancing sparsity in the approximation of color images by 2D atomic decomposition are discussed. The sparsity is firstly considered with respect to the most significant coefficients in the wavelet decomposition of the…

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With the explosion of data traffic triggered by 5G/6G and Generative artificial intelligence, coherent optical communication is moving towards higher baud rates and more complex modulation formats. This leads to a significant increase in…

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An effective medium approach similar to the coherent potential approximation (CPA) in the theory of disordered alloys and to the DMFT has been extended to the renormalization group equations in the local potential approximation (LPA).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-14 V. I. Tokar

Conventional tomographic reconstruction typically depends on centralized servers for both data storage and computation, leading to concerns about memory limitations and data privacy. Distributed reconstruction algorithms mitigate these…

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Machine learning models must continuously self-adjust themselves for novel data distribution in the open world. As the predominant principle, entropy minimization (EM) has been proven to be a simple yet effective cornerstone in existing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-16 Qingyang Zhang , Yatao Bian , Xinke Kong , Peilin Zhao , Changqing Zhang

Distribution matching transforms independent and Bernoulli(1/2) distributed input bits into a sequence of output symbols with a desired distribution. Fixed-to-fixed length, invertible, and low complexity encoders and decoders based on…

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