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Modern compression algorithms exploit complex structures that are present in signals to describe them very efficiently. On the other hand, the field of compressed sensing is built upon the observation that "structured" signals can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Farideh Ebrahim Rezagah , Shirin Jalali , Elza Erkip , H. Vincent Poor

Rate-distortion optimization through neural networks has accomplished competitive results in compression efficiency and image quality. This learning-based approach seeks to minimize the compromise between compression rate and reconstructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Raül Pérez-Gonzalo , Andreas Espersen , Antonio Agudo

We derive fundamental accuracy limits for distributed localization when a fusion center has access only to independently rate-distortion (RD)-optimally compressed versions of multi-sensor observations, under a line-of-sight propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Amir Weiss

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in highly energy-constrained environments such as autonomous drones and wearable devices while at the same time must operate in real-time. Therefore, reducing the energy consumption has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Haichuan Yang , Yuhao Zhu , Ji Liu

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

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

The compression of deep neural networks (DNNs) to reduce inference cost becomes increasingly important to meet realistic deployment requirements of various applications. There have been a significant amount of work regarding network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Tianyi Chen , Bo Ji , Yixin Shi , Tianyu Ding , Biyi Fang , Sheng Yi , Xiao Tu

Recent efforts in neural compression have focused on the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff, where the perception constraint ensures the source and reconstruction distributions are close in terms of a statistical divergence.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Eric Lei , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Recent advances in deep learning have led to superhuman performance across a variety of applications. Recently, these methods have been successfully employed to improve the rate-distortion performance in the task of image compression.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Ankur Mali , Alexander Ororbia , Daniel Kifer , Lee Giles

The last decade has witnessed the breakthrough of deep neural networks (DNNs) in many fields. With the increasing depth of DNNs, hundreds of millions of multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations need to be executed. To accelerate such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Georg Boecherer , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

Most data is automatically collected and only ever "seen" by algorithms. Yet, data compressors preserve perceptual fidelity rather than just the information needed by algorithms performing downstream tasks. In this paper, we characterize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Yann Dubois , Benjamin Bloem-Reddy , Karen Ullrich , Chris J. Maddison

In this work, we propose an effective scheme (called DP-Net) for compressing the deep neural networks (DNNs). It includes a novel dynamic programming (DP) based algorithm to obtain the optimal solution of weight quantization and an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Dingcheng Yang , Wenjian Yu , Ao Zhou , Haoyuan Mu , Gary Yao , Xiaoyi Wang

Many common types of data can be represented as functions that map coordinates to signal values, such as pixel locations to RGB values in the case of an image. Based on this view, data can be compressed by overfitting a compact neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zongyu Guo , Gergely Flamich , Jiajun He , Zhibo Chen , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) are extremely powerful; however, this comes at the price of increased depth and having more parameters per layer, making their training and inference more computationally challenging. In an attempt to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-04 Lingyu Gu , Yongqi Du , Yuan Zhang , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu , Robert C. Qiu , Zhenyu Liao

Advanced tensor decomposition, such as Tensor train (TT) and Tensor ring (TR), has been widely studied for deep neural network (DNN) model compression, especially for recurrent neural networks (RNNs). However, compressing convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Miao Yin , Yang Sui , Siyu Liao , Bo Yuan

We examine the coordinated and universal rate-efficient sampling of a subset of correlated discrete memoryless sources followed by lossy compression of the sampled sources. The goal is to reconstruct a predesignated subset of sources within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Vinay Praneeth Boda , Prakash Narayan

The rate-distortion dimension (RDD) of an analog stationary process is studied as a measure of complexity that captures the amount of information contained in the process. It is shown that the RDD of a process, defined as two times the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Farideh Ebrahim Rezagah , Shirin Jalali , Elza Erkip , H. Vincent Poor

We derive a simple general parametric representation of the rate-distortion function of a memoryless source, where both the rate and the distortion are given by integrals whose integrands include the minimum mean square error (MMSE) of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-04-30 Neri Merhav

The emerging Learned Compression (LC) replaces the traditional codec modules with Deep Neural Networks (DNN), which are trained end-to-end for rate-distortion performance. This approach is considered as the future of image/video…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Farhad Pakdaman , Moncef Gabbouj

In lossy compression, Wang et al. [1] recently introduced the rate-distortion-perception-classification function, which supports multi-task learning by jointly optimizing perceptual quality, classification accuracy, and reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Nam Nguyen , Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose