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This paper is concerned with a rate-distortion theory for sequences of i.i.d. random variables with general distribution supported on general sets including manifolds and fractal sets. Manifold structures are prevalent in data science,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Erwin Riegler , Günther Koliander , Helmut Bölcskei

Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Yochai Blau , Tomer Michaeli

A new source model, which consists of an intrinsic state part and an extrinsic observation part, is proposed and its information-theoretic characterization, namely its rate-distortion function, is defined and analyzed. Such a source model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Jiakun Liu , Shuo Shao , Wenyi Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Handling digital images is almost always accompanied by a lossy compression in order to facilitate efficient transmission and storage. This introduces an unavoidable tension between the allocated bit-budget (rate) and the faithfulness of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Xiyang Luo , Hossein Talebi , Feng Yang , Michael Elad , Peyman Milanfar

Rate-distortion theory-based outlier detection builds upon the rationale that a good data compression will encode outliers with unique symbols. Based on this rationale, we propose Cluster Purging, which is an extension of clustering-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Maximilian B. Toller , Bernhard C. Geiger , Roman Kern

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

We propose a new construction for low-density source codes with multiple parameters that can be tuned to optimize the performance of the code. In addition, we introduce a set of analysis techniques for deriving upper bounds for the expected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Emin Martinian , Martin J. Wainwright

Rate-distortion formulation is the information-theoretic approach to the study of signal encoding systems. Since a more general approach to model the nonstationarity exhibited by real-world signals is to use appropriately fitted time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Jia-Chyi Wu

We consider a novel variant of $d$-semifaithful lossy coding in which the distortion measure is revealed only to the encoder and only at run-time, as well as an extension of it in which the distortion constraint $d$ is also revealed at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Adeel Mahmood , Aaron B. Wagner

Lossy data compression lies at the heart of modern communication and storage systems. Shannon's rate-distortion theory provides the fundamental limit on how much a source can be compressed at a given fidelity, but it assumes infinitely long…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bhaskar Krishnamachari

Even though rate-distortion optimization is a crucial part of traditional image and video compression, not many approaches exist which transfer this concept to end-to-end-trained image compression. Most frameworks contain static compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Fabian Brand , Kristian Fischer , Alexander Kopte , André Kaup

We study task-oriented lossy compression through the lens of rate-distortion-classification (RDC) representations. The source is Bernoulli, the distortion measure is Hamming, and the binary classification variable is coupled to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

We study the problem of distributed and rate-adaptive feature compression for linear regression. A set of distributed sensors collect disjoint features of regressor data. A fusion center is assumed to contain a pretrained linear regression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Aditya Deshmukh , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , Gunjan Verma

I proposed rate tolerance and discussed its relation to rate distortion in my book "A Generalized Information Theory" published in 1993. Recently, I examined the structure function and the complexity distortion based on Kolmogorov's…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-18 Chenguang Lu

We study lossy compression of a finite statement source generated in a fixed deductive environment. The source symbols are statements in a knowledge base endowed with a shared proof system, and reconstruction fidelity is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jianfeng Xu

This paper studies the performance of sparse regression codes for lossy compression with the squared-error distortion criterion. In a sparse regression code, codewords are linear combinations of subsets of columns of a design matrix. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Ramji Venkataramanan , Sekhar Tatikonda

This paper presents a novel method to determine rate-distortion optimized transform coefficients for efficient compression of videos generated from point clouds. The method exploits a generalized frequency selective extrapolation approach…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Christian Herglotz , Nils Genser , André Kaup

The problem of compressing a real-valued sparse source using compressive sensing techniques is studied. The rate distortion optimality of a coding scheme in which compressively sensed signals are quantized and then reconstructed is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-09 Rajiv Soundararajan , Sriram Vishwanath

Text datasets can be represented using models that do not preserve text structure, or using models that preserve text structure. Our hypothesis is that depending on the dataset nature, there can be advantages using a model that preserves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ana Granados , Kostadin Koroutchev , Francisco de Borja Rodríguez

Perception-aware lossy source coding has attracted significant recent interest. It augments the classical distortion criterion with an explicit perception constraint, thereby enabling more refined control over fidelity and perceptual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ali Hussein , Jun Chen , Chao Tian , S. Sandeep Pradhan