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We consider the problem of zero error source coding with limited feedback when side information is present at the receiver. First, we derive an achievable rate region for arbitrary joint distributions on the source and the side information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-15 Mayank Bakshi , MIchelle Effros

We study the channel coding problem when errors and uncertainty occur in the encoding process. For simplicity we assume the channel between the encoder and the decoder is perfect. Focusing on linear block codes, we model the encoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Jad Hachem , I-Hsiang Wang , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

In this paper, we first introduce the notion of channel leakage as the minimum mutual information between the channel input and channel output. As its name indicates, channel leakage quantifies the minimum information leakage to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

The variable-length source coding problem allowing the error probability up to some constant is considered for general sources. In this problem the optimum mean codeword length of variable-length codes has already been determined. On the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Ryo Nomura , Hideki Yagi

We present information-theoretic definitions and results for analyzing symmetric-key encryption schemes beyond the perfect secrecy regime, i.e. when perfect secrecy is not attained. We adopt two lines of analysis, one based on lossless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Flavio du Pin Calmon , Muriel Médard , Mayank Varia , Ken R. Duffy , Mark M. Christiansen , Linda M. Zeger

The guessing number of a directed graph (digraph), equivalent to the entropy of that digraph, was introduced as a direct criterion on the solvability of a network coding instance. This paper makes two contributions on the guessing number.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Maximilien Gadouleau , Soren Riis

While cryptographic algorithms such as the ubiquitous Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) are secure, *physical implementations* of these algorithms in hardware inevitably 'leak' sensitive data such as cryptographic keys. A particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jimmy Gammell , Anand Raghunathan , Abolfazl Hashemi , Kaushik Roy

The source-coding problem with side information at the decoder is studied subject to a constraint that the encoder---to whom the side information is unavailable---be able to compute the decoder's reconstruction sequence to within some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Amos Lapidoth , Andreas Malär , Michèle Wigger

The problem of secure lossy source-channel wiretapping with arbitrarily correlated side informations at both receivers is investigated. This scenario consists of an encoder (referred to as Alice) that wishes to compress a source and send it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Joffrey Villard , Pablo Piantanida , Shlomo Shamai

Information theoretic leakage metrics quantify the amount of information about a private random variable $X$ that is leaked through a correlated revealed variable $Y$. They can be used to evaluate the privacy of a system in which an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Sophie Taylor , Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Justin P. Coon

The problem of secure multiterminal source coding with side information at the eavesdropper is investigated. This scenario consists of a main encoder (referred to as Alice) that wishes to compress a single source but simultaneously…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Joffrey Villard , Pablo Piantanida

Side channels represent a broad class of security vulnerabilities that have been demonstrated to exist in many applications. Because completely eliminating side channels often leads to prohibitively high overhead, there is a need for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Benjamin Wu , Aaron B. Wagner , G. Edward Suh

This paper studies the tradeoff in privacy and utility in a single-trial multi-terminal guessing (estimation) framework using a system model that is inspired by index coding. There are $n$ independent discrete sources at a data curator.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Yucheng Liu , Ni Ding , Parastoo Sadeghi , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

We investigate two source coding problems with secrecy constraints. In the first problem we consider real--time fully secure transmission of a memoryless source. We show that although classical variable--rate coding is not an option since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Yonatan Kaspi , Neri Merhav

We introduce fundamental bounds on achievable cumulative rate distribution functions (CRDF) to characterize a sequential encoding process that ensures lossless or lossy reconstruction subject to an average distortion criterion using a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hamid Ghourchian , Photios A. Stavrou , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The code base of software projects evolves essentially through inserting and removing information to and from the source code. We can measure this evolution via the elements of information - tokens, words, nodes - of the respective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Adriano Torres , Sebastian Baltes , Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

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

Zero-error coding encompasses a variety of source and channel problems where the probability of error must be exactly zero. This condition is stricter than that of the vanishing error regime, where the error probability goes to zero as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nicolas Charpenay , Maël Le Treust , Aline Roumy

Large alphabet source coding is a basic and well-studied problem in data compression. It has many applications such as compression of natural language text, speech and images. The classic perception of most commonly used methods is that a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Amichai Painsky , Saharon Rosset , Meir Feder

Realizing flow security in a concurrent environment is extremely challenging, primarily due to non-deterministic nature of execution. The difficulty is further exacerbated from a security angle if sequential threads disclose control…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Sandip Ghosal , R. K. Shyamasundar