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The rate-distortion (RD) theory is one of the key concepts in information theory, providing theoretical limits for compression performance and guiding the source coding design, with both theoretical and practical significance. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Shitong Wu , Sicheng Xu , Lingyi Chen , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang

Recent advances in Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory highlight the importance of balancing compression level, reconstruction quality, and perceptual fidelity. While previous work has explored numerical approaches to approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chunhui Chen , Linyi Chen , Xueyan Niu , Hao Wu

We study the computation of the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) for discrete memoryless sources subject to a single-letter average distortion constraint and a perception constraint belonging to the family of $f$-divergences. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

The Blahut-Arimoto algorithm is a well-known method to compute classical channel capacities and rate-distortion functions. Recent works have extended this algorithm to compute various quantum analogs of these quantities. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Kerry He , James Saunderson , Hamza Fawzi

A fundamental question in designing lossy data compression schemes is how well one can do in comparison with the rate-distortion function, which describes the known theoretical limits of lossy compression. Motivated by the empirical success…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Eric Lei , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

We consider the computation of the entanglement-assisted quantum rate-distortion function, which plays a central role in quantum information theory. We propose an efficient alternating minimization algorithm based on the Lagrangian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lingyi Chen , Deheng Yuan , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu , Huihui Wu

In this paper, we study the computation of the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) for discrete memoryless sources subject to a single-letter average distortion constraint and a perception constraint that belongs to the family of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

The quantum rate-distortion function plays a fundamental role in quantum information theory, however there is currently no practical algorithm which can efficiently compute this function to high accuracy for moderate channel dimensions. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Kerry He , James Saunderson , Hamza Fawzi

We formulate em algorithm in the framework of Bregman divergence, which is a general problem setting of information geometry. That is, we address the minimization problem of the Bregman divergence between an exponential subfamily and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi

We generalize the generalized Arimoto-Blahut algorithm to a general function defined over Bregman-divergence system. In existing methods, when linear constraints are imposed, each iteration needs to solve a convex minimization. Exploiting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Masahito Hayashi

In rate-distortion (RD) problems one seeks reduced representations of a source that meet a target distortion constraint. Such optimal representations undergo topological transitions at some critical rate values, when their cardinality or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Shlomi Agmon , Etam Benger , Or Ordentlich , Naftali Tishby

In this paper, we present iterative algorithms that numerically compute the rate-distortion regions of two problems: the two-encoder multiterminal source coding problem and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) problem, both under logarithmic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Yigit Ugur , Inaki Estella Aguerri , Abdellatif Zaidi

Advanced optimization algorithms such as Newton method and AdaGrad benefit from second order derivative or second order statistics to achieve better descent directions and faster convergence rates. At their heart, such algorithms need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Yao Lu , Mehrtash Harandi , Richard Hartley , Razvan Pascanu

We propose NAMA (Newton-type Alternating Minimization Algorithm) for solving structured nonsmooth convex optimization problems where the sum of two functions is to be minimized, one being strongly convex and the other composed with a linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Lorenzo Stella , Andreas Themelis , Panagiotis Patrinos

The source coding problem with action-dependent side information at the decoder has recently been introduced to model data acquisition in resource-constrained systems. In this paper, an efficient algorithm for numerical computation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Kasper Fløe Trillingsgaard , Osvaldo Simeone , Petar Popovski , Torben Larsen

In this paper, we propose a novel function named Rate Distortion-in-Distortion (RDD) function as an extension of the classical rate-distortion (RD) function, where the expected distortion constraint is replaced by a Gromov-type distortion.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Lingyi Chen , Haoran Tang , Shitong Wu , Jiakun Liu , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu

In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for solving a linear optimization problem with entropic constraints, a class of problems that arises in game theory and information theory. Our analysis distinguishes between the cases of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Luis M. Briceño-Arias , Maël Le Treust

A rekindled the interest in auto-encoder algorithms has been spurred by recent work on deep learning. Current efforts have been directed towards effective training of auto-encoder architectures with a large number of coding units. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo , Jose C. Principe

Deviations from rational decision-making due to limited computational resources have been studied in the field of bounded rationality, originally proposed by Herbert Simon. There have been a number of different approaches to model bounded…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Jordi Grau-Moya , Daniel A. Braun

In this paper, we propose a new framework named Communication Optimal Transport (CommOT) for computing the rate distortion (RD) function. This work is motivated by observing the fact that the transition law and the relative entropy in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Hao Wu , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Bo Bai
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