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In this paper, we investigate the necessity of finite blocklength codes in distributed transmission of independent message sets over channels with feedback. Previously, it was shown that finite effective length codes are necessary in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Mohsen Heidari , Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Error correction codes are a crucial part of the physical communication layer, ensuring the reliable transfer of data over noisy channels. The design of optimal linear block codes capable of being efficiently decoded is of major concern,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yoni Choukroun , Lior Wolf

We present a new deep-neural-network (DNN) based error correction code for fading channels with output feedback, called deep SNR-robust feedback (DRF) code. At the encoder, parity symbols are generated by a long short term memory (LSTM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gunduz , Alberto Perotti , Branislav Popovic

While biological vision systems rely heavily on feedback connections to iteratively refine perception, most artificial neural networks remain purely feedforward, processing input in a single static pass. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 David Calhas , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Optimal transport has numerous applications, particularly in machine learning tasks involving generative models. In practice, the transportation process often encounters an information bottleneck, typically arising from the conversion of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiqiang Qu , Ruibin Li , Jun Chen , Lei Yu , Xinbing Wang

We propose Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM), a simple yet effective attention module for feed-forward convolutional neural networks. Given an intermediate feature map, our module sequentially infers attention maps along two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Sanghyun Woo , Jongchan Park , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

For the model of communication through a discrete memoryless channel using i.i.d. random block codes, where the channel is changing slowly from block to block, we propose a stochastic algorithm for adaptation of the generating distribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Sergey Tridenski , Ram Zamir

Recent research in the design of end to end communication system using deep learning has produced models which can outperform traditional communication schemes. Most of these architectures leveraged autoencoders to design the encoder at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Vishnu Raj , Sheetal Kalyani

While Transformers have revolutionized deep learning, their quadratic attention complexity hinders their ability to process infinitely long inputs. We propose Feedback Attention Memory (FAM), a novel Transformer architecture that leverages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Dongseong Hwang , Weiran Wang , Zhuoyuan Huo , Khe Chai Sim , Pedro Moreno Mengibar

We propose two coding schemes for the two-receiver discrete memoryless broadcast channel (BC) with rate-limited feedback from one or both receivers. They improve over the nofeedback capacity region for a large class of channels, including…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Youlong Wu , Michèle Wigger

The use of open-loop coding can be easily extended to a closed-loop concatenated code if the channel has access to feedback. This can be done by introducing a feedback transmission scheme as an inner code. In this paper, this process is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Zachary Chance , David J. Love

As the mobile application landscape expands, wireless networks are tasked with supporting various connection profiles, including real-time communications and delay-sensitive traffic. Among many ensuing engineering challenges is the need to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-13 Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Henry Pfister

This paper examines the maximum code rate achievable by a data-driven communication system over some unknown discrete memoryless channel in the finite blocklength regime. A class of channel codes, called learning-based channel codes, is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Neil Irwin Bernardo , Jingge Zhu , Jamie Evans

Feedback holds a pivotal role in practical communication schemes, even though it does not enhance channel capacity. Its main attribute includes adaptability in transmission that allows for a higher rate of convergence of the error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Robert J. Piechocki , Angela Doufexi

Space-time codes leverage the availability of multiple antennas to enhance the reliability of communication over wireless channels. While space-time codes have initially been designed with a focus on open-loop systems, recent technological…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Che Lin , Vasanthan Raghavan , Venu Veeravalli

The use of open-loop coding can be easily extended to a closed-loop concatenated code if the channel has access to feedback. This can be done by introducing a feedback transmission scheme as an inner code. In this paper, this process is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Zachary Chance , David J. Love

Deep Feedback Models (DFMs) are a new class of stateful neural networks that combine bottom up input with high level representations over time. This feedback mechanism introduces dynamics into otherwise static architectures, enabling DFMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 David Calhas , Arlindo L. Oliveira

We consider the problem of universally communicating over an unknown and arbitrarily varying channel, using feedback. The focus of this paper is on determining the input behavior, and specifically, a prior distribution which is used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-03 Yuval Lomnitz , Meir Feder

Recent advances in deep neural networks have been developed via architecture search for stronger representational power. In this work, we focus on the effect of attention in general deep neural networks. We propose a simple and effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jongchan Park , Sanghyun Woo , Joon-Young Lee , In So Kweon

Deep learning has seen a movement away from representing examples with a monolithic hidden state towards a richly structured state. For example, Transformers segment by position, and object-centric architectures decompose images into…