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In computation-intensive domains such as digital signal processing, encryption, and neural networks, the performance of arithmetic units, including adders and multipliers, is pivotal. Conventional numerical systems often fall short of…

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Split computing distributes deep neural network inference between resource-constrained edge devices and cloud servers but faces significant communication bottlenecks when transmitting intermediate features. To this end, in this paper, we…

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Data centers handle vast volumes of data that require efficient lossless compression, yet emerging probabilistic models based methods are often computationally slow. To address this, we introduce RAS, the Range Asymmetric Numeral System…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yuchao Qin , Anjunyi Fan , Bonan Yan

In this paper we study representations of real numbers in a numeral system with the base $a>1$ and alphabet (digits set) $A\equiv\{0,1,...,r\}$, $a-1<r\in N$ given by \[x=\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{\alpha_n}{a^n}\equiv…

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There is a class of entropy-coding methods which do not substitute symbols by code words (such as Huffman coding), but operate on intervals or ranges. This class includes three prominent members: conventional arithmetic coding, range…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Tilo Strutz , Nico Schreiber

It is now well known that the performance of a linear code $C$ under iterative decoding on a binary erasure channel (and other channels) is determined by the size of the smallest stopping set in the Tanner graph for $C$. Several recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Moshe Schwartz , Alexander Vardy

We prove a variety of new and refined uniform continuity bounds for entropies of both classical random variables on an infinite state space and of quantum states of infinite-dimensional systems. We obtain the first tight continuity estimate…

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We present new lower and upper bounds for the compression rate of binary prefix codes optimized over memoryless sources according to two related exponential codeword length objectives. The objectives explored here are exponential-average…

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Achieving high accuracy, while maintaining good energy efficiency, in analog DNN accelerators is challenging as high-precision data converters are expensive. In this paper, we overcome this challenge by using the residue number system (RNS)…

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Using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for nonlinear system identification has proven to be a promising approach, but despite of all recent research efforts, many practical and theoretical problems still remain open. Specifically, noise…

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An abstract numeration system (ANS) is a numeration system that provides a one-to-one correspondence between the natural numbers and a regular language. In this paper, we define an ANS-based compression as an extension of this…

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This paper presents new lower and upper bounds for the optimal compression of binary prefix codes in terms of the most probable input symbol, where compression efficiency is determined by the nonlinear codeword length objective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Michael Baer

Universal compression of patterns of sequences generated by independently identically distributed (i.i.d.) sources with unknown, possibly large, alphabets is investigated. A pattern is a sequence of indices that contains all consecutive…

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For a linear block code C, its stopping redundancy is defined as the smallest number of check nodes in a Tanner graph for C, such that there exist no stopping sets of size smaller than the minimum distance of C. Schwartz and Vardy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Junsheng Han , Paul H. Siegel , Ron M. Roth

Let $s$ be a string of length $n$ over an alphabet of constant size $\sigma$ and let $c$ and $\epsilon$ be constants with (1 \geq c \geq 0) and (\epsilon > 0). Using (O (n)) time, (O (n^c)) bits of memory and one pass we can always encode…

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This paper deals with the problem of universal lossless coding on a countable infinite alphabet. It focuses on some classes of sources defined by an envelope condition on the marginal distribution, namely exponentially decreasing envelope…

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By frequency-band extracting, we experimentally and theoretically investigate time-delay signature (TDS) suppression and entropy growth enhancement of a chaotic optical-feedback semiconductor laser under different injection currents and…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-27 Yanqiang Guo , Tong Liu , Tong Zhao , Haojie Zhang , Xiaomin Guo

The problem of characterizing the optimal rate achievable with analog network coding (ANC) for a unicast communication over general wireless relay networks is computationally hard. A relay node performing ANC scales and forwards its input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Samar Agnihotri

Analog coding decouples the tasks of protecting against erasures and noise. For erasure correction, it creates an "analog redundancy" by means of band-limited discrete Fourier transform (DFT) interpolation, or more generally, by an…

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