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The problem of joint universal source coding and identification is considered in the setting of fixed-rate lossy coding of continuous-alphabet memoryless sources. For a wide class of bounded distortion measures, it is shown that any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maxim Raginsky

This paper investigates the rate-distortion function, under a squared error distortion $D$, for an $n$-dimensional random vector uniformly distributed on an $(n-1)$-sphere of radius $R$. First, an expression for the rate-distortion function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

Many images and videos are primarily processed by computer vision algorithms, involving only occasional human inspection. When this content requires compression before processing, e.g., in distributed applications, coding methods must…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Samuel Fernández-Menduiña , Eduardo Pavez , Antonio Ortega

Consider the problem where a statistician in a two-node system receives rate-limited information from a transmitter about marginal observations of a memoryless process generated from two possible distributions. Using its own observations,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Gil Katz , Pablo Piantanida , Mérouane Debbah

Recently, a number of authors have proposed decoding schemes for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes based on multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm. In this paper, we present a rate-distortion (R-D) approach to analyze these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

We study analogue source transmission over MIMO block-fading channels with receiver-only channel state information. Unlike previous work which considers the end-to-end expected distortion as a figure of merit, we study the distortion outage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Li Peng , Albert Guillen i Fabregas

Rate-distortion-perception theory generalizes Shannon's rate-distortion theory by introducing a constraint on the perceptual quality of the output. The perception constraint complements the conventional distortion constraint and aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Jia Wang , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

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 establish the first information-theoretic limits for multimodal retrieval. Casting ranking as lossy source coding, we derive a single-letter rate-distortion function $R(D)$ for reciprocal-rank distortion and prove a converse bound that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Thomas Y. Chen

This paper studies the fundamental limits of the minimum average length of lossless and lossy variable-length compression, allowing a nonzero error probability $\epsilon$, for lossless compression. We give non-asymptotic bounds on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Victoria Kostina , Yury Polyanskiy , Sergio Verdú

We consider rate-distortion with two decoders, each with distinct side information. This problem is well understood when the side information at the decoders satisfies a certain degradedness condition. We consider cases in which this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Sinem Unal , Aaron B. Wagner

Optical networks are vulnerable to physical layer attacks; wiretappers can improperly receive messages intended for legitimate recipients. Our work considers an aspect of this security problem within the domain of multimode fiber (MMF)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eva C. Song , Emina Soljanin , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor , Kyle Guan

We consider a variation of the Wyner-Ziv problem pertaining to lossy compression of individual sequences using finite-state encoders and decoders. There are two main results in this paper. The first characterizes the relationship between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Neri Merhav , Jacob Ziv

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 consider the maximum coding rate achievable by uniformly-random codes for the deletion channel. We prove an upper bound that's within 0.1 of the best known lower bounds for all values of the deletion probability $d,$ and much closer for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Berivan Isik , Francisco Pernice , Tsachy Weissman

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

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

A framework is developed using techniques from rate distortion theory in statistical testing. The idea is first to do optimal compression according to a certain distortion function and then use information divergence from the compressed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-01 Peter Harremoes

We consider a Shannon cipher system for memoryless sources, in which distortion is allowed at the legitimate decoder. The source is compressed using a rate distortion code secured by a shared key, which satisfies a constraint on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nir Weinberger , Neri Merhav

Optimized for pixel fidelity metrics, images compressed by existing image codec are facing systematic challenges when used for visual analysis tasks, especially under low-bitrate coding. This paper proposes a visual analysis-motivated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Zhimeng Huang , Chuanmin Jia , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma