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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

We propose a hybrid resampling method to approximate finitely supported Wasserstein barycenters on large-scale datasets, which can be combined with any exact solver. Nonasymptotic bounds on the expected error of the objective value as well…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-28 Florian Heinemann , Axel Munk , Yoav Zemel

We propose computationally efficient encoders and decoders for lossy compression using a Sparse Regression Code. The codebook is defined by a design matrix and codewords are structured linear combinations of columns of this matrix. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Ramji Venkataramanan , Tuhin Sarkar , Sekhar Tatikonda

Dataset Distillation (DD) aims to generate a compact synthetic dataset that enables models to achieve performance comparable to training on the full large dataset, significantly reducing computational costs. Drawing from optimal transport…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Haoyang Liu , Yijiang Li , Tiancheng Xing , Peiran Wang , Vibhu Dalal , Luwei Li , Jingrui He , Haohan Wang

Performativity means that the deployment of a predictive model incentivizes agents to strategically adapt their behavior, thereby inducing a model-dependent distribution shift. Practitioners often repeatedly retrain the model on data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Siyi Wang , Zifan Wang , Karl H. Johansson

We formulate and solve a regression problem with time-stamped distributional data. Distributions are considered as points in the Wasserstein space of probability measures, metrized by the 2-Wasserstein metric, and may represent images,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Amirhossein Karimi , Tryphon T. Georgiou

In this paper the relation between nonanticipative rate distortion function (RDF) and Bayesian filtering theory is further investigated on general Polish spaces. The relation is established via an optimization on the space of conditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Photios A. Stavrou , Charalambos D. Charalambous

The field of deep generative modeling has succeeded in producing astonishingly realistic-seeming images and audio, but quantitative evaluation remains a challenge. Log-likelihood is an appealing metric due to its grounding in statistics and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sicong Huang , Alireza Makhzani , Yanshuai Cao , Roger Grosse

This paper is concerned with the lossy compression of general random variables, specifically with rate-distortion theory and quantization of random variables taking values in general measurable spaces such as, e.g., manifolds and fractal…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Erwin Riegler , Helmut Bölcskei , Günther Koliander

Preprocessing is a well-established technique for optimizing compression, yet existing methods are predominantly Rate-Distortion (R-D) optimized and constrained by pixel-level fidelity. This work pioneers a shift towards Rate-Perception…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Mengxi Guo , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

Efficient 3D LiDAR point cloud compression (LPCC) and streaming are critical for edge server-assisted robotic systems, enabling real-time communication with compact data representations. A widely adopted approach represents LiDAR point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Shengqian Wang , Chang Tu , He Chen

We propose REpresentation-Aware Distributionally Robust Estimation (READ), a novel framework for Wasserstein distributionally robust learning that accounts for predictive representations when guarding against distributional shifts. Unlike…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-12 Zitao Wang , Nian Si , Molei Liu

One popular approach to soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on using multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm in combination with erasing or flipping a set of symbols or bits in each trial. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

Fundamental rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-offs arise in applications requiring maintained perceptual quality of reconstructed data, such as neural image compression. When compressed data is transmitted over public communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Gustaf Åhlgren , Onur Günlü

Motivated by the need for communication-efficient distributed learning, we investigate the method for compressing a unit norm vector into the minimum number of bits, while still allowing for some acceptable level of distortion in recovery.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heng Zhu , Avishek Ghosh , Arya Mazumdar

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

This paper considers the decision-dependent optimization problem, where the data distributions react in response to decisions affecting both the objective function and linear constraints. We propose a new method termed repeated projected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Zifan Wang , Changxin Liu , Thomas Parisini , Michael M. Zavlanos , Karl H. Johansson

We present a computationally efficient framework, called $\texttt{FlowDRO}$, for solving flow-based distributionally robust optimization (DRO) problems with Wasserstein uncertainty sets while aiming to find continuous worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chen Xu , Jonghyeok Lee , Xiuyuan Cheng , Yao Xie

The Gauss-Markov source produces $U_i = aU_{i-1} + Z_i$ for $i\geq 1$, where $U_0 = 0$, $|a|<1$ and $Z_i\sim\mathcal{N}(0, \sigma^2)$ are i.i.d. Gaussian random variables. We consider lossy compression of a block of $n$ samples of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Peida Tian , Victoria Kostina

The multivariate Gaussian rate-distortion (RD) function is crucial in various applications, such as digital communications, data storage, or neural networks. However, the complex form of the multivariate Gaussian RD function prevents its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Zhenglin Huang , Qifa Yan , Bin Dai , Xiaohu Tang