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We extend the Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) framework to the R\'enyi information-theoretic regime, utilizing Sibson's $\alpha$-mutual information to characterize the fundamental limits under distortion and perception constraints. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiahui Wei , Marios Kountouris

Particle-based variational inference offers a flexible way of approximating complex posterior distributions with a set of particles. In this paper we introduce a new particle-based variational inference method based on the theory of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Luca Ambrogioni , Umut Guclu , Marcel van Gerven

Deep learning-based image compression algorithms typically focus on designing encoding and decoding networks and improving the accuracy of entropy model estimation to enhance the rate-distortion (RD) performance. However, few algorithms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Junhui Li , Jutao Li , Xingsong Hou , Huake Wang

For a Gaussian source under mean-squared error (MSE), classical transform coding is rate--distortion (RD) optimal: the Karhunen--Loeve transform (KLT) diagonalizes the covariance, reverse waterfilling allocates the bits, and scalar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bumsu Park , Chanho Park , Youngmok Park , Namyoon Lee

In this paper, we use tools from rate-distortion theory to establish new upper bounds on the generalization error of statistical distributed learning algorithms. Specifically, there are $K$ clients whose individually chosen models are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-23 Milad Sefidgaran , Romain Chor , Abdellatif Zaidi

Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) provides a framework for decision-making under distributional uncertainty, yet its effectiveness can be compromised by outliers in the training data. This paper introduces a principled approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shuyao Li , Ilias Diakonikolas , Jelena Diakonikolas

Living organisms rely on internal models of the world to act adaptively. These models, because of resource limitations, cannot encode every detail and hence need to compress information. From a cognitive standpoint, information compression…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-18 Leo D'Amato , Gian Luca Lancia , Giovanni Pezzulo

Today's networks are controlled assuming pre-compressed and packetized data. For video, this assumption of data packets abstracts out one of the key aspects - the lossy compression problem. Therefore, first, this paper develops a framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-03 Jubin Jose , Sriram Vishwanath

Many tasks in machine learning and signal processing can be solved by minimizing a convex function of a measure. This includes sparse spikes deconvolution or training a neural network with a single hidden layer. For these problems, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Lenaic Chizat , Francis Bach

We derive an algorithm for compression of the currents and varifolds representations of shapes, using ridge leverage score (RLS) sampling, and the theory of Nystrom approximation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. Our method is faster…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Allen Paul , Neill Campbell , Tony Shardlow

We describe an image compression method, consisting of a nonlinear analysis transformation, a uniform quantizer, and a nonlinear synthesis transformation. The transforms are constructed in three successive stages of convolutional linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Johannes Ballé , Valero Laparra , Eero P. Simoncelli

Variational principles for the rate distortion (RD) theory in lossy compression are formulated within the ambit of the generalized nonextensive statistics of Tsallis, for values of the nonextensivity parameter satisfying $ 0 < q < 1 $ and $…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-10 R. C. Venkatesan , A. Plastino

We consider a multiterminal source coding problem in which a source is estimated at a central processing unit from lossy-compressed remote observations. Each lossy-encoded observation is produced by a remote sensor which obtains a noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Ruiyang Song , Stefano Rini , Alon Kipnis , Andrea J. Goldsmith

This paper provides a unified treatment to the recovery of structured signals living in a star-shaped set from general quantized measurements $\mathcal{Q}(\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}-\mathbf{\tau})$, where $\mathbf{A}$ is a sensing matrix,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Junren Chen , Ming Yuan

Large deep learning models such as BERT and ResNet achieve state-of-the-art performance but are costly to deploy at the edge due to their size and compute demands. We present RMT-KD, a compression method that leverages Random Matrix Theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Davide Ettori , Nastaran Darabi , Sureshkumar Senthilkumar , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

Despite a short history, neural image codecs have been shown to surpass classical image codecs in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, most of them suffer from significantly longer decoding times, which hinders the practical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Yixin Gao , Runsen Feng , Zongyu Guo , Zhibo Chen

For a required payload, the existing reversible data hiding (RDH) methods always expect to reduce the embedding distortion as much as possible, such as by utilizing a well-designed predictor, taking into account the carrier-content…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Hanzhou Wu

Marton's optimal error exponent for the lossy source coding problem is defined as a non-convex optimization problem. This fact had prevented us to develop an efficient algorithm to compute it. This problem is caused by the fact that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Yutaka Jitsumatsu

This paper investigates the problem of computing capacity-cost (C-C) functions for continuous channels. Motivated by the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) proximal reformulation of the classical Blahut-Arimoto (BA) algorithm, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xinyang Li , Vlad C. Andrei , Ullrich J. Mönich , Fan Liu , Holger Boche

We consider large scale distributed optimization over a set of edge devices connected to a central server, where the limited communication bandwidth between the server and edge devices imposes a significant bottleneck for the optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Yujie Tang , Vikram Ramanathan , Junshan Zhang , Na Li