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Rate distortion dimension describes the theoretical limit of lossy data compression methods as the distortion bound goes to zero. It was originally introduced in the context of information theory, and recently it was discovered that it has…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Masaki Tsukamoto

This paper is concerned with quantum data compression of asymptotically many independent and identically distributed copies of ensembles of mixed quantum states. The encoder has access to a side information system. The figure of merit is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Zahra Baghali Khanian , Kohdai Kuroiwa , Debbie Leung

Finite abstractions are discrete approximations of dynamical systems, such that the set of abstraction trajectories contains all system trajectories. There is a consensus that abstractions suffer from the curse of dimensionality: for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-09 Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Gabriel Gleizer

The sample compression theory provides generalization guarantees for predictors that can be fully defined using a subset of the training dataset and a (short) message string, generally defined as a binary sequence. Previous works provided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mathieu Bazinet , Valentina Zantedeschi , Pascal Germain

Transformers achieve superior performance on many tasks, but impose heavy compute and memory requirements during inference. This inference can be made more efficient by partitioning the process across multiple devices, which, in turn,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anderson de Andrade , Alon Harell , Ivan V. Bajić

Many common types of data can be represented as functions that map coordinates to signal values, such as pixel locations to RGB values in the case of an image. Based on this view, data can be compressed by overfitting a compact neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zongyu Guo , Gergely Flamich , Jiajun He , Zhibo Chen , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

From the sampling of data to the initialisation of parameters, randomness is ubiquitous in modern Machine Learning practice. Understanding the statistical fluctuations engendered by the different sources of randomness in prediction is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-03 Bruno Loureiro , Cédric Gerbelot , Maria Refinetti , Gabriele Sicuro , Florent Krzakala

This survey articles focuses on emerging connections between the fields of machine learning and data compression. While fundamental limits of classical (lossy) data compression are established using rate-distortion theory, the connections…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jun Chen , Yong Fang , Ashish Khisti , Ayfer Ozgur , Nir Shlezinger , Chao Tian

In the context of goal-oriented communications, this paper addresses the achievable rate versus generalization error region of a learning task applied on compressed data. The study focuses on the distributed setup where a source is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jiahui Wei , Philippe Mary , Elsa Dupraz

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Andreas Winter

Datasets such as images, text, or movies are embedded in high-dimensional spaces. However, in important cases such as images of objects, the statistical structure in the data constrains samples to a manifold of dramatically lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Stefano Recanatesi , Matthew Farrell , Madhu Advani , Timothy Moore , Guillaume Lajoie , Eric Shea-Brown

The field of deep generative modeling has succeeded in producing astonishingly realistic-seeming images and audio, but quantitative evaluation remains a challenge. Log-likelihood is an appealing metric due to its grounding in statistics and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sicong Huang , Alireza Makhzani , Yanshuai Cao , Roger Grosse

In this paper, we use tools from rate-distortion theory to establish new upper bounds on the generalization error of statistical distributed learning algorithms. Specifically, there are $K$ clients whose individually chosen models are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-23 Milad Sefidgaran , Romain Chor , Abdellatif Zaidi

Recent advances in machine learning-aided lossy compression are incorporating perceptual fidelity into the rate-distortion theory. In this paper, we study the rate-distortion-perception trade-off when the perceptual quality is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xueyan Niu , Deniz Gündüz , Bo Bai , Wei Han

In lossy compression, Wang et al. [1] recently introduced the rate-distortion-perception-classification function, which supports multi-task learning by jointly optimizing perceptual quality, classification accuracy, and reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Nam Nguyen , Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

Since Shannon's foundational work, rate-distortion theory has defined the fundamental limits of lossy compression. Classical results, derived for memoryless and stationary ergodic sources in the asymptotic regime, have shaped both transform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Sujata Sinha , Vishwas Rao , Robert Underwood , David Lenz , Sheng Di , Franck Cappello , Lingjia Liu

Consider a Gaussian memoryless multiple source with $m$ components with joint probability distribution known only to lie in a given class of distributions. A subset of $k \leq m$ components are sampled and compressed with the objective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Vinay Praneeth Boda

In the context of lossy compression, Blau & Michaeli (2019) adopt a mathematical notion of perceptual quality and define the information rate-distortion-perception function, generalizing the classical rate-distortion tradeoff. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 George Zhang , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti

We propose and study the problem of distribution-preserving lossy compression. Motivated by recent advances in extreme image compression which allow to maintain artifact-free reconstructions even at very low bitrates, we propose to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Michael Tschannen , Eirikur Agustsson , Mario Lucic

This paper considers the subject of information losses arising from the finite datasets used in the training of neural classifiers. It proves a relationship between such losses as the product of the expected total variation of the estimated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Brandon Foggo , Nanpeng Yu , Jie Shi , Yuanqi Gao