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This paper introduces a new member of the family of Variational Autoencoders (VAE) that constrains the rate of information transferred by the latent layer. The latent layer is interpreted as a communication channel, the information rate of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 D. T. Braithwaite , W. B. Kleijn

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) offer a principled formalism for planning under state and transition uncertainty. Despite advances made towards solving large POMDPs, obtaining performant policies under limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zakariya Laouar , Qi Heng Ho , Zachary Sunberg

Wireless communications for status update are becoming increasingly important, especially for machine-type control applications. Existing work has been mainly focused on Age of Information (AoI) optimizations. In this paper, a status-aware…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Zhiyuan Jiang , Zixu Cao , Siyu Fu , Fei Peng , Shan Cao , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu

Timely status updating is crucial for future applications that involve remote monitoring and control, such as autonomous driving and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Age of Information (AoI) has been proposed to measure the freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Xi Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

We propose noise-robust voice conversion (VC) which takes into account the recording quality and environment of noisy source speech. Conventional denoising training improves the noise robustness of a VC model by learning noisy-to-clean VC…

In this paper, we present a latent variable (LV) framework to identify all the speakers and their keywords given a multi-speaker mixture signal. We introduce two separate LVs to denote active speakers and the keywords uttered. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Harshavardhan Sundar , Thippur V. Sreenivas

A hidden Markov process is a well known concept in information theory and is used for a vast range of applications such as speech recognition and error correction. We bridge between two disciplines, experimental physics and advanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ido Kanter , Aviad Frydman , Asaf Ater

In order to develop machine learning and deep learning models that take into account the guidelines and principles of trustworthy AI, a novel information theoretic trustworthy AI framework is introduced. A unified approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Mohit Kumar , Bernhard A. Moser , Lukas Fischer , Bernhard Freudenthaler

A simultaneous mode, input and state set-valued observer is proposed for hidden mode switched linear systems with bounded-norm noise and unknown input signals. The observer consists of two constituents: (i) a bank of mode-matched observers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Mohammad Khajenejad , Sze Zheng Yong

Longitudinal data are important in numerous fields, such as healthcare, sociology and seismology, but real-world datasets present notable challenges for practitioners because they can be high-dimensional, contain structured missingness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Maksim Sinelnikov , Manuel Haussmann , Harri Lähdesmäki

Recently, a generative variational autoencoder (VAE) has been proposed for speech enhancement to model speech statistics. However, this approach only uses clean speech in the training phase, making the estimation particularly sensitive to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Huajian Fang , Guillaume Carbajal , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

In this paper, we study a remote monitoring system where a receiver observes a remote binary Markov source and decides whether to sample and transmit the state through a randomly delayed channel. We adopt uncertainty of information (UoI),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Xiaomeng Chen , Aimin Li , Shaohua Wu

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are increasingly popular and built into smartphones, home assistants, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Despite offering an always-on convenient user experience, VUIs raise new security and privacy concerns…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Ranya Aloufi , Hamed Haddadi , David Boyle

The Age of Information (AoI) has emerged as a critical metric for quantifying information freshness; however, its interplay with channel estimation in partially observable wireless systems remains underexplored. This work considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Onur Ayan , Jiping Luo , Xueli An , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we consider a point-to-point wireless communication system. The source monitors a physical process and generates status update packets according to a Poisson process. The packets are transmitted to the destination by using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-20 Rui Wang , Yifan Gu , He Chen , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Age of information (AoI) is a performance metric that captures the freshness of status updates. While AoI has been studied thoroughly for point-to-point links, the impact of modern random-access protocols on this metric is still unclear. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat

New technologies for sensing and communication act as enablers for cooperative driving applications. Sensors are able to detect objects in the surrounding environment and information such as their current location is exchanged among…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Julian Heinovski , Jorge Torres Gómez , Falko Dressler

The Age of Incorrect Information (AoII) is studied within the context of remote monitoring a Markov source using variable-length stop-feedback (VLSF) coding. Leveraging recent results on the non-asymptotic channel coding rate, we consider…

The burgeoning field of on-device AI communication, where devices exchange information directly through embedded foundation models, such as language models (LMs), requires robust, efficient, and generalizable communication frameworks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ju-Hyung Lee , Dong-Ho Lee , Joohan Lee , Jay Pujara

The identification of Linear Time-Varying (LTV) systems from input-output data is a fundamental yet challenging ill-posed inverse problem. This work introduces a unified Bayesian framework that models the system's impulse response, $h(t,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-01 Yaniv Shulman