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In this paper, the context dependence multilevel pattern matching(in short CDMPM) grammar transform is proposed; based on this grammar transform, the universal lossless data compression algorithm, CDMPM code is then developed. Moreover we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Chung-Song Kim , Chol-Hun Kim

We investigate lossy compression (source coding) of data in the form of permutations. This problem has direct applications in the storage of ordinal data or rankings, and in the analysis of sorting algorithms. We analyze the rate-distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Da Wang , Arya Mazumdar , Gregory Wornell

Deep neural networks have shown incredible performance for inference tasks in a variety of domains. Unfortunately, most current deep networks are enormous cloud-based structures that require significant storage space, which limits scaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Sourya Basu , Lav R. Varshney

We consider the problem of lossy source coding with a mismatched distortion measure. That is, we investigate what distortion guarantees can be made with respect to distortion measure $\tilde{\rho}$, for a source code designed such that it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-07 Urs Niesen , Devavrat Shah , Gregory Wornell

This paper presents new lower and upper bounds for the compression rate of binary prefix codes optimized over memoryless sources according to various nonlinear codeword length objectives. Like the most well-known redundancy bounds for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Michael B. Baer

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

Focal loss has recently gained significant popularity, particularly in tasks like object detection where it helps to address class imbalance by focusing more on hard-to-classify examples. This work proposes the focal loss as a distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

A lossy compression algorithm for binary redundant memoryless sources is presented. The proposed scheme is based on sparse graph codes. By introducing a nonlinear function, redundant memoryless sequences can be compressed. We propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Kazushi Mimura

We consider the variable-to-fixed length lossy source coding (VFSC) problem. The optimal compression rate of the average length of variable-to-fixed source coding, allowing a non-vanishing probability of excess-distortion $\varepsilon$, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Lan V. Truong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In lossy compression, Blau and Michaeli [5] introduced the information rate-distortion-perception (RDP) function, extending traditional rate-distortion theory by incorporating perceptual quality. More recently, this framework was expanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

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

In this paper, we propose {\em distributed network compression via memory}. We consider two spatially separated sources with correlated unknown source parameters. We wish to study the universal compression of a sequence of length $n$ from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Ahmad Beirami , Faramarz Fekri

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

A composite source, consisting of multiple subsources and a memoryless switch, outputs one symbol at a time from the subsource selected by the switch. If some data should be encoded more accurately than other data from an information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jiakun Liu , H. Vincent Poor , Iickho Song , Wenyi Zhang

We consider the multi-user lossy source-coding problem for continuous alphabet sources. In a previous work, Ziv proposed a single-user universal coding scheme which uses uniform quantization with dither, followed by a lossless source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-14 Avraham Reani , Neri Merhav

The redundancy for universal lossless compression of discrete memoryless sources in Campbell's setting is characterized as a minimax R\'enyi divergence, which is shown to be equal to the maximal $\alpha$-mutual information via a generalized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Semih Yagli , Yücel Altuğ , Sergio Verdú

Recently, the existence of considerable amount of redundancy in the Internet traffic has stimulated the deployment of several redundancy elimination techniques within the network. These techniques are often based on either packet-level…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-02 Mohsen Sardari , Ahmad Beirami , Faramarz Fekri

We consider transmission of discrete memoryless sources (DMSes) across discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) using variable-length lossy source-channel codes with feedback. The reliability function (optimum error exponent) is shown to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Lan V. Truong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

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

Consider a discrete memoryless multiple source with $m$ components of which $k \leq m$ possibly different sources are sampled at each time instant and jointly compressed in order to reconstruct all the $m$ sources under a given distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Vinay Praneeth Boda , Prakash Narayan