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In general, large datasets enable deep learning models to perform with good accuracy and generalizability. However, massive high-fidelity simulation datasets (from molecular chemistry, astrophysics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), etc.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Wai Tong Chung , Ki Sung Jung , Jacqueline H. Chen , Matthias Ihme

We explore an error-bounded lossy compression approach for reducing scientific data associated with 2D/3D unstructured meshes. While existing lossy compressors offer a high compression ratio with bounded error for regular grid data,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Congrong Ren , Xin Liang , Hanqi Guo

Storage-efficient privacy-preserving learning is crucial due to increasing amounts of sensitive user data required for modern learning tasks. We propose a framework for reducing the storage cost of user data while at the same time providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Berivan Isik , Tsachy Weissman

This paper addresses the problem of correlation estimation in sets of compressed images. We consider a framework where images are represented under the form of linear measurements due to low complexity sensing or security requirements. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-12-20 Vijayaraghavan Thirumalai , Pascal Frossard

Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) techniques have become increasingly prevalent in high performance computing (HPC). However, these methods depend on vast volumes of floating point data for training and validation which need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Robert Underwood , Jon C. Calhoun , Sheng Di , Franck Cappello

Lossy compression is widely used to reduce storage and I/O costs for large-scale particle datasets in scientific applications such as cosmology, molecular dynamics, and fluid dynamics, where clustering structures (e.g., single-linkage or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Congrong Ren , Sheng Di , Katrin Heitmann , Franck Cappello , Hanqi Guo

We study the problem of deriving compressibility measures for Piecewise Linear Approximations (PLAs), i.e., error-bounded approximations of a set of two-dimensional increasing data points using a sequence of segments. Such approximations…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Paolo Ferragina , Filippo Lari

A new framework is introduced for examining and evaluating the fundamental limits of lossless data compression, that emphasizes genuinely non-asymptotic results. The {\em sample complexity} of compressing a given source is defined as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Terence Viaud , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Many scientific applications opt for particles instead of meshes as their basic primitives to model complex systems composed of billions of discrete entities. Such applications span a diverse array of scientific domains, including molecular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Longtao Zhang , Ruoyu Li , Congrong Ren , Sheng Di , Jinyang Liu , Jiajun Huang , Robert Underwood , Pascal Grosset , Dingwen Tao , Xin Liang , Hanqi Guo , Franck Capello , Kai Zhao

Error-controlled lossy compression has been studied for years because of extremely large volumes of data being produced by today's scientific simulations. None of existing lossy compressors, however, allow users to fix the peak…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Dingwen Tao , Sheng Di , Xin Liang , Zizhong Chen , Franck Cappello

In industrial and IoT environments, massive amounts of real-time and historical process data are continuously generated and archived. With sensors and devices capturing every operational detail, the volume of time-series data has become a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Reham Faqehi , Haya Alhuraib , Hamad Saiari , Zyad Bamigdad

Extreme-scale cosmological simulations have been widely used by today's researchers and scientists on leadership supercomputers. A new generation of error-bounded lossy compressors has been used in workflows to reduce storage requirements…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Sian Jin , Jesus Pulido , Pascal Grosset , Jiannan Tian , Dingwen Tao , James Ahrens

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

Compression of floating-point data, both lossy and lossless, is a topic of increasing interest in scientific computing. Developing and evaluating suitable compression algorithms requires representative samples of data from real-world…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Fabian Knorr , Peter Thoman , Thomas Fahringer

We consider the computational aspects of lossy data compression problem, where the compression error is determined by a cover of the data space. We propose an algorithm which reduces the number of partitions needed to find the entropy with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Marek Śmieja , Jacek Tabor

We analyze the effect of lossy compression in the processing of sensor signals that must be used to detect anomalous events in the system under observation. The intuitive relationship between the quality loss at higher compression and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Alex Marchioni , Andriy Enttsel , Mauro Mangia , Riccardo Rovatti , Gianluca Setti

Computable Information Density (CID), the ratio of the length of a losslessly compressed data file to that of the uncompressed file, is a measure of order and correlation in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium systems. Here we show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-26 Stefano Martiniani , Yuval Lemberg , Paul M. Chaikin , Dov Levine

Error-bounded lossy compression has been a critical technique to significantly reduce the sheer amounts of simulation datasets for high-performance computing (HPC) scientific applications while effectively controlling the data distortion…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Tripti Agarwal , Sheng Di , Jiajun Huang , Yafan Huang , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan , Robert Underwood , Kai Zhao , Xin Liang , Guanpeng Li , Franck Cappello

The growing volume of scientific simulation data presents a significant challenge for storage and transfer. Error-bounded lossy compression has emerged as a critical solution for mitigating these challenges, providing a means to reduce data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Arshan Khan , Rohit Deshmukh , Ben O'Neill