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In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributionally robust source coding, i.e., source coding under uncertainty in the source distribution, discussing both the coding and computational aspects of the problem. We propose two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

In this paper, we study the use of GF(q)-quantized LDGM codes for binary source coding. By employing quantization, it is possible to obtain binary codewords with a non-uniform distribution. The obtained statistics is hence suitable for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Lorenzo Cappellari

We describe message-passing and decimation approaches for lossy source coding using low-density generator matrix (LDGM) codes. In particular, this paper addresses the problem of encoding a Bernoulli(0.5) source: for randomly generated LDGM…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Martin J. Wainwright , Elitza Maneva

In this paper we consider point-to-point and distributed source coding problems where the receiver is only interested in a function of the data sent by the source encoder(s), while knowledge of the function remains unknown to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Sourya Basu , Lav R. Varshney

We study the problem of the reconstruction of a Gaussian field defined in [0,1] using N sensors deployed at regular intervals. The goal is to quantify the total data rate required for the reconstruction of the field with a given mean square…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-10-23 Akshay Kashyap , Luis Alfonso Lastras-Montaño , Cathy Xia , Zhen Liu

A recent line of work has focused on the use of low-density generator matrix (LDGM) codes for lossy source coding. In this paper, wedevelop a generic technique for deriving lower bounds on the rate-distortion functions of binary linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-18 A. G. Dimakis , M. J. Wainwright , K. Ramchandran

In this paper, we propose a lattice-based robust distributed source coding system for two correlated sources and provide a detailed performance analysis under the high resolution assumption. It is shown, among other things, that, in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Dania Elzouki , Sorina Dumitrescu , Jun Chen

The distortion-rate function of output-constrained lossy source coding with limited common randomness is analyzed for the special case of squared error distortion measure. An explicit expression is obtained when both source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Li Xie , Liangyan Li , Jun Chen , Zhongshan Zhang

This paper investigates a source coding problem in which two terminals communicating through a relay wish to estimate one another's source within some distortion constraint. The relay has access to side information that is correlated with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Farideh Ebrahim Rezagah , Elza Erkip

The problem of reconstructing a source sequence with the presence of decoder side-information that is mis-synchronized to the source due to deletions is studied in a distributed source coding framework. Motivated by practical applications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

We are interested in how to best communicate a (usually real valued) source to a number of destinations (sinks) over a network with capacity constraints in a collective fidelity metric over all the sinks, a problem which we call joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Nima Sarshar , Xiaolin Wu

This work is devoted to practical joint source channel coding. Although the proposed approach has more general scope, for the sake of clarity we focus on a specific application example, namely, the transmission of digital images over noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maria Fresia , Giuseppe Caire

This paper considers the problem of lossy compression for the computation of a function of two correlated sources, both of which are observed at the encoder. Due to presence of observation costs, the encoder is allowed to observe only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Xi Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip

Consider a sequence $X^n$ of length $n$ emitted by a Discrete Memoryless Source (DMS) with unknown distribution $p_X$. The objective is to construct a lossless source code that maps $X^n$ to a sequence $\widehat{Y}^m$ of length $m$ that is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Remi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aylin Yener

Consider a generalized multiterminal source coding system, where $\ell\choose m$ encoders, each observing a distinct size-$m$ subset of $\ell$ ($\ell\geq 2$) zero-mean unit-variance symmetrically correlated Gaussian sources with correlation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Jun Chen , Li Xie , Yameng Chang , Jia Wang , Yizhong Wang

We study the problem of efficient compression of a stochastic source of probability distributions. It can be viewed as a generalization of Shannon's source coding problem. It has relation to the theory of common randomness, as well as to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Andreas Winter

We propose a random coding technique for joint source-channel coding of discrete memoryless sources and channels. The approach builds on the random Gilbert-Varshamov code construction of Somekh-Baruch et al. and extends it to the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 AmirPouya Moeini , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

In this paper we propose a new framework for distributed source coding of structured sources, such as sparse signals. Our framework capitalizes on recent advances in the theory of linear inverse problems and signal representations using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Maxim Goukhshtein , Petros T. Boufounos , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Stark C. Draper

It was recently shown that the lossless compression of a single source $X^n$ is achievable with a notion of strong locality; any $X_i$ can be decoded from a constant number of compressed bits, with a vanishing in $n$ probability of error.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Shashank Vatedka , Venkat Chandar , Aslan Tchamkerten

Jointly Gaussian memoryless sources are observed at N distinct terminals. The goal is to efficiently encode the observations in a distributed fashion so as to enable reconstruction of any one of the observations, say the first one, at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-05-14 Saurabha Tavildar , Pramod Viswanath , Aaron B. Wagner