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In relative entropy coding, a sender aims to design a stochastic code such that, on input $X \sim P_X$, the receiver can generate a sample $Y \sim P_{Y \mid X}$. It is a standard result that (1) this requires at least $I(X; Y)$ bits, (2)…

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We present Entropy Adaptive Decoding (EAD), a novel approach for efficient language model inference that dynamically switches between different-sized models based on prediction uncertainty. By monitoring rolling entropy in model logit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Toby Simonds

With the development of deep learning techniques, the combination of deep learning with image compression has drawn lots of attention. Recently, learned image compression methods had exceeded their classical counterparts in terms of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Ze Cui , Jing Wang , Shangyin Gao , Bo Bai , Tiansheng Guo , Yihui Feng

For neural video codec, it is critical, yet challenging, to design an efficient entropy model which can accurately predict the probability distribution of the quantized latent representation. However, most existing video codecs directly use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yan Lu

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a widely used similarity measure for comparing strings that encode time series data, with applications to areas including bioinformatics, signature verification, and speech recognition. The standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zoe Xi , William Kuszmaul

Referring expression counting (REC) algorithms are for more flexible and interactive counting ability across varied fine-grained text expressions. However, the requirement for fine-grained attribute understanding poses challenges for prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhicheng Wang , Zhiyu Pan , Zhan Peng , Jian Cheng , Liwen Xiao , Wei Jiang , Zhiguo Cao

Deep learning-based methods have garnered significant attention in remote sensing (RS) image compression due to their superior performance. Most of these methods focus on enhancing the coding capability of the compression network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Junhui Li , Xingsong Hou

Run-Length Encoding (RLE) is one of the most fundamental tools in data compression. However, its compression power drops significantly if there lacks consecutive elements in the sequence. In extreme cases, the output of the encoder may…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xutan Peng , Yi Zhang , Dejia Peng , Jiafa Zhu

The modern data compression is mainly based on two approaches to entropy coding: Huffman (HC) and arithmetic/range coding (AC). The former is much faster, but approximates probabilities with powers of 2, usually leading to relatively low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Jarek Duda

Relative position encoding (RPE) is important for transformer to capture sequence ordering of input tokens. General efficacy has been proven in natural language processing. However, in computer vision, its efficacy is not well studied and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Kan Wu , Houwen Peng , Minghao Chen , Jianlong Fu , Hongyang Chao

Lossless floating-point time series compression is crucial for a wide range of critical scenarios. Nevertheless, it is a big challenge to compress time series losslessly due to the complex underlying layouts of floating-point values. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ruiyuan Li , Zheng Li , Yi Wu , Chao Chen , Tong Liu , Yu Zheng

Recently, learned image compression techniques have achieved remarkable performance, even surpassing the best manually designed lossy image coders. They are promising to be large-scale adopted. For the sake of practicality, a thorough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Dailan He , Ziming Yang , Weikun Peng , Rui Ma , Hongwei Qin , Yan Wang

The quantum enhancement of success probability in the Random Access Code (RAC) protocols remains unexplored from two important perspectives. First, the use of entanglement between two co-measurable degrees of freedom of a single particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Nilaj Saha , Sumit Mukherjee , Dipankar Home

This paper proposes an impulse response modeling in presence of input and noisy output of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system. The approach utilizes Relative Entropy (RE) to choose the optimum impulse response estimate, optimum time delay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Mahdi Shamsi , Soosan Beheshti

A relative entropy code for a source $X \sim P_X$ is a stochastic code that encodes random samples from a prescribed $P_{Y \mid X}$ using as few bits as possible. A generalisation of entropy coding, it is a standard result that the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gergely Flamich , Spencer Hill

Recent progress in learning-based image compression has demonstrated that end-to-end optimization can substantially outperform traditional codecs by jointly learning compact latent representations and probabilistic entropy models. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Sofia Iliopoulou , Dimitris Ampeliotis , Athanassios Skodras

Shannon entropy is the shortest average codeword length a lossless compressor can achieve by encoding i.i.d. symbols. However, there are cases in which the objective is to minimize the \textit{exponential} average codeword length, i.e. when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Andrea Somazzi , Paolo Ferragina , Diego Garlaschelli

A new run length encoding algorithm for lossless data compression that exploits positional redundancy by representing data in a two-dimensional model of concentric circles is presented. This visual transform enables detection of runs (each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Pranav Venkatram

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

We study channel simulation and distributed matching, two fundamental problems with several applications to machine learning, using a recently introduced generalization of the standard rejection sampling (RS) algorithm known as Ensemble…

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