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Information-directed sampling (IDS) has recently demonstrated its potential as a data-efficient reinforcement learning algorithm. However, it is still unclear what is the right form of information ratio to optimize when contextual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Botao Hao , Tor Lattimore , Chao Qin

This paper addresses the construction of observable convolutional codes that exhibit good performance with the available decoding algorithms for erasure channels. Our construction is based on the use of input/state/output (I/S/O)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Noemí DeCastro-García , Miguel V. Carriegos , Ángel Luis Muñoz Castañeda

Streaming erasure codes guarantee that each source packet is recovered within a fixed delay at the receiver over a burst-erasure channel. This paper introduces a new class of streaming codes: Diversity Embedded Streaming Erasure Codes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Emin Martinian

The network communication scenario where one or more receivers request all the information transmitted by different sources is considered. We introduce distributed polynomial-time network codes in the presence of malicious nodes. Our codes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-01-18 Hongyi Yao , Theodoros K. Dikaliotis , Sidharth Jaggi , Tracey Ho

Streaming erasure codes encode a source stream to guarantee that each source packet is recovered within a fixed delay at the receiver over a burst-erasure channel. This paper introduces diversity embedded streaming erasure codes (DE-SCo),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-13 Ahmed Badr , Ashish Khisti , Emin Martinian

Recovery of data packets from packet erasures in a timely manner is critical for many streaming applications. An early paper by Martinian and Sundberg introduced a framework for streaming codes and designed rate-optimal codes that permit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-19 M. Nikhil Krishnan , P. Vijay Kumar

Large-scale distributed storage systems typically use erasure codes to provide durability of data in the face of failures. A set of $k$ blocks to be stored is encoded using an $[n, k]$ code to generate $n$ blocks that are then stored on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Francisco Maturana , K. V. Rashmi

We propose a new class of error correction codes for low-delay streaming communication. We consider an online setup where a source packet arrives at the encoder every $M$ channel uses, and needs to be decoded with a maximum delay of $T$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ahmed Badr , Pratik Patil , Ashish Khisti , Wai-Tian Tan , John Apostolopoulos

This paper investigates streaming codes for three-node relay networks under burst packet erasures with a delay constraint $T$. In any sliding window of $T+1$ consecutive packets, the source-to-relay and relay-to-destination channels may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhipeng Li , Wenjie Ma

A coding theorem and converse are proved for a large class of abstract stationary channels with time structure including the result by Kadota and Wyner (1972) on continuous-time real-valued channels as special cases. As main contribution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Martin Mittelbach , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Information velocity (IV) is a recently proposed notion to capture the speed of reliable information dissemination over a large-scale network. It is the speed at which reliable end-to-end communication over $k$ hops can be achieved within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kai-Chun Chen , I-Hsiang Wang

A single source network is said to be memory-free if all of the internal nodes (those except the source and the sinks) do not employ memory but merely send linear combinations of the symbols received at their incoming edges on their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-09 K. Prasad , B. Sundar Rajan

Spurred by advancements in scale, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong few-shot learning ability via in-context learning (ICL). However, the performance of ICL has been shown to be highly sensitive to the selection of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Chengwei Qin , Aston Zhang , Chen Chen , Anirudh Dagar , Wenming Ye

An $(a,b,\tau)$ streaming code is a packet-level erasure code that can recover under a strict delay constraint of $\tau$ time units, from either a burst of $b$ erasures or else of $a$ random erasures, occurring within a sliding window of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Vinayak Ramkumar , Myna Vajha , M. Nikhil Krishnan , P. Vijay Kumar

We derive lower and upper bounds on the identification capacity of inverse Gaussian channels, a fundamental model for molecular communications in fluid environments. The analysis considers deterministic encoding schemes under a peak time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Mohammad Javad Salariseddigh

This paper investigates low-latency streaming codes for a three-node relay network. The source transmits a sequence of messages (streaming messages) to the destination through the relay between them, where the first-hop channel from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Silas L. Fong , Ashish Khisti , Baochun Li , Wai-Tian Tan , Xiaoqing Zhu , John Apostolopoulos

Several applications in communication, control, and learning require approximating target distributions to within small informational divergence (I-divergence). The additional requirement of invertibility usually leads to using encoders…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Patrick Schulte , Rana Ali Amjad , Thomas Wiegart , Gerhard Kramer

Integrated data and energy transfer (IDET) is an advanced technology for enabling energy sustainability for massively deployed low-power electronic consumption components. However, the existing work of IDET using the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Jie Hu , Ke Xu , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

For every p in (0,1/2), we give an explicit construction of binary codes of rate approaching "capacity" 1-H(p) that enable reliable communication in the presence of worst-case additive errors}, caused by a channel oblivious to the codeword…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-05-04 Venkatesan Guruswami , Adam Smith

Many high-dimensional online decision-making problems can be modeled as stochastic sparse linear bandits. Most existing algorithms are designed to achieve optimal worst-case regret in either the data-rich regime, where polynomial dependence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ludovic Schwartz , Hamish Flynn , Gergely Neu