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An intuitive outer bound for the multiterminal source coding problem is given. The proposed bound explicitly couples the rate distortion functions for each source and correlation measures which derive from a "strong" data processing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Thomas A. Courtade

We show how universal codes can be used for solving some of the most important statistical problems for time series. By definition, a universal code (or a universal lossless data compressor) can compress any sequence generated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Boris Ryabko

This book deals with functions allowing to express the dissimilarity (discrepancy) between two data fields or ''divergence functions'' with the aim of applications to linear inverse problems. Most of the divergences found in the litterature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-04 Henri Lantéri

This paper is on developing some computer-assisted proof methods involving non-classical inequalities for Shannon entropy. Two areas of the applications of information inequalities are studied: Secret sharing schemes and hat guessing games.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Emirhan Gürpınar

We study a tight Bennett-type concentration inequality for sums of heterogeneous and independent variables, defined as a one-dimensional minimization. We show that this refinement, which outperforms the standard known bounds, remains…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Quentin Jacquet , Riadh Zorgati

Estimation of the $\phi$-divergence between two unknown probability distributions using empirical data is a fundamental problem in information theory and statistical learning. We consider a multi-variate generalization of the data dependent…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Fengqiao Luo , Sanjay Mehrotra

This work explores properties of Strong Data-Processing constants for R\'enyi Divergences. Parallels are made with the well-studied $\varphi$-Divergences, and it is shown that the order $\alpha$ of R\'enyi Divergences dictates whether…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Adrien Vandenbroucque , Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar

In this paper, we analyze the asymptotics of the normalized remaining uncertainty of a source when a compressed or hashed version of it and correlated side-information is observed. For this system, commonly known as Slepian-Wolf source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Vincent Y. F. Tan , Masahito Hayashi

Over the last few years, machine learning unlocked previously infeasible features for compression, such as providing guarantees for users' privacy or tailoring compression to specific data statistics (e.g., satellite images or audio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Gergely Flamich

We introduce a universal quantization scheme based on random coding, and we analyze its performance. This scheme consists of a source-independent random codebook (typically_mismatched_ to the source distribution), followed by optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Ioannis Kontoyiannis , Rami Zamir

Deriving formulations for computing and estimating tight worst-case size increases for conjunctive queries with various constraints has been at the core of theoretical database research. If the problem has no constraints or only one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Valter Uotila , Jiaheng Lu

The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in long-context scenarios is hindered by computational inefficiency and significant information redundancy. Although recent advancements have widely adopted context compression to address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Kangtao Lv , Jiwei Tang , Langming Liu , Haibin Chen , Weidong Zhang , Shilei Liu , Yongwei Wang , Yujin Yuan , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng

We present results of the numerical simulations and the scaling characteristics of one-dimensional random fluctuations with heavy tailed probability distribution functions. Assuming that the distribution function of the random fluctuations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-16 Mohsen Ghasemi Nezhadhaghighi

We introduce a new protocol for a lossy data compression algorithm which is based on constraint satisfaction gates. We show that the theoretical capacity of algorithms built from standard parity-check gates converges exponentially fast to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Ciliberti , M. Mezard , R. Zecchina

Current discrete randomness and information conservation inequalities are over total recursive functions, i.e. restricted to deterministic processing. This restriction implies that an algorithm can break algorithmic randomness conservation…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Samuel Epstein

During the last two decades, concentration inequalities have been the subject of exciting developments in various areas, including convex geometry, functional analysis, statistical physics, high-dimensional statistics, pure and applied…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-26 Maxim Raginsky , Igal Sason

Variational techniques have been recently developed to find tighter bounds on the von Neumann entropy in a completely device-independent (DI) setting. This, in turn, has led to significantly improved key rates of DI protocols, in both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Thomas A. Hahn , Ernest Y. -Z. Tan , Peter Brown

We tighten the Entropy Power Inequality (EPI) when one of the random summands is Gaussian. Our strengthening is closely connected to the concept of strong data processing for Gaussian channels and generalizes the (vector extension of)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Thomas A. Courtade

Fano's inequality is one of the most elementary, ubiquitous, and important tools in information theory. Using majorization theory, Fano's inequality is generalized to a broad class of information measures, which contains those of Shannon…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yuta Sakai

Numerous entropy-type characteristics (functionals) generalizing R\'enyi entropy are widely used in mathematical statistics, physics, information theory, and signal processing for characterizing uncertainty in probability distributions and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-28 David Källberg , Nikolaj Leonenko , Oleg Seleznjev