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When data is generated by multiple sources, conventional training methods update models assuming equal reliability for each source and do not consider their individual data quality. However, in many applications, sources have varied levels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Alexander Capstick , Francesca Palermo , Tianyu Cui , Payam Barnaghi

Consider a source and multiple users who observe the independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) copies of correlated Gaussian random variables. The source wishes to compress its observations and store the result in a public database…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Hassan ZivariFard , Remi A. Chou

This paper offers a new perspective on the limits of machine learning: the ceiling on progress is set not by model size or algorithm choice but by the information structure of the task itself. Code generation has progressed more reliably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhimin Zhao

Motivated from the fact that universal source coding on countably infinite alphabets is not feasible, this work introduces the notion of almost lossless source coding. Analog to the weak variable-length source coding problem studied by Han…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jorge F. Silva , Pablo Piantanida

Lossless variable-length source coding with codeword cost is considered for general sources. The problem setting, where we impose on unequal costs on code symbols, is called the variable-length coding with codeword cost. In this problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-09 Ryo Nomura

The increasing development of LLMs in code generation has drawn significant attention among researchers. To enhance LLM-based code generation ability, current efforts are predominantly directed towards collecting high-quality datasets and…

Distribution shift has been a longstanding challenge for the reliable deployment of deep learning (DL) models due to unexpected accuracy degradation. Although DL has been becoming a driving force for large-scale source code analysis in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Qiang Hu , Yuejun Guo , Xiaofei Xie , Maxime Cordy , Lei Ma , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various tasks, yet code generation remains a major challenge. Current approaches for obtaining high-quality code data primarily focus on (i) collecting large-scale…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yichuan Ma , Yunfan Shao , Peiji Li , Demin Song , Qipeng Guo , Linyang Li , Xipeng Qiu , Kai Chen

The problem of joint universal source coding and modeling, addressed by Rissanen in the context of lossless codes, is generalized to fixed-rate lossy coding of continuous-alphabet memoryless sources. We show that, for bounded distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Maxim Raginsky

Coding schemes for several problems in network information theory are constructed starting from point-to-point channel codes that are designed for symmetric channels. Given that the point-to-point codes satisfy certain properties pertaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Nadim Ghaddar , Shouvik Ganguly , Lele Wang , Young-Han Kim

We put forth new models for universal channel coding. Unlike standard codes which are designed for a specific type of channel, our most general universal code makes communication resilient on every channel, provided the noise level is below…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Bruno Bauwens , Marius Zimand

Lossless variable-length source coding with unequal cost function is considered for general sources. In this problem, the codeword cost instead of codeword length is important. The infimum of average codeword cost has already been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Ryo Nomura , Toshiyasu Matsushima

We consider a system in which two nodes take correlated measurements of a random source with time-varying and unknown statistics. The observations of the source at the first node are to be losslessly replicated with a given probability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Fangzhou Chen , Bin Li , Can Emre Koksal

The likelihood encoder with a random codebook is demonstrated as an effective tool for source coding. Coupled with a soft covering lemma (associated with channel resolvability), likelihood encoders yield simple achievability proofs for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Paul Cuff , Eva C. Song

In this paper, we study the problem of lossless universal source coding for stationary memoryless sources on countably infinite alphabets. This task is generally not achievable without restricting the class of sources over which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Boucheron Stephane , Elisabeth Gassiat , Mesrob I. Ohannessian

Understanding code represents a core ability needed for automating software development tasks. While foundation models like LLMs show impressive results across many software engineering challenges, the extent of their true semantic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Serge Lionel Nikiema , Jordan Samhi , Abdoul Kader Kaboré , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Learning from source code usually requires a large amount of labeled data. Despite the possible scarcity of labeled data, the trained model is highly task-specific and lacks transferability to different tasks. In this work, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Linfeng Liu , Hoan Nguyen , George Karypis , Srinivasan Sengamedu

We consider a setting of Slepian--Wolf coding, where the random bin of the source vector undergoes channel coding, and then decoded at the receiver, based on additional side information, correlated to the source. For a given distribution of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Neri Merhav

We present a novel lossless universal source coding algorithm that uses parallel computational units to increase the throughput. The length-$N$ input sequence is partitioned into $B$ blocks. Processing each block independently of the other…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Nikhil Krishnan , Dror Baron , Mehmet Kıvanç Mıhçak

We study the following semi-deterministic setting of the joint source-channel coding problem: a deterministic source sequence (a.k.a. individual sequence) is transmitted via a memoryless channel, using delay-limited encoder and decoder,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Neri Merhav