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We propose an iterative method for approximating the capacity of classical-quantum channels with a discrete input alphabet and a finite dimensional output, possibly under additional constraints on the input distribution. Based on duality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 David Sutter , Tobias Sutter , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Renato Renner

For memoryless channels with continuous input alphabets, deterministic identification (DI) typically exhibits a linearithmic ($n\log n$) message growth. However, the exact DI capacity has long remained open due to a persistent gap between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Pau Colomer , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche , Andreas Winter

Memoryless channels with deletion errors as defined by a stochastic channel matrix allowing for bit drop outs are considered in which transmitted bits are either independently deleted with probability $d$ or unchanged with probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Mojtaba Rahmati , Tolga M. Duman

In this paper, we characterize the information-theoretic capacity scaling of wireless ad hoc networks with $n$ randomly distributed nodes. By using an exact channel model from Maxwell's equations, we successfully resolve the conflict in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-19 Si-Hyeon Lee , Sae-Young Chung

We study channel simulation under common randomness assistance in the finite-blocklength regime and identify the smooth channel max-information as a linear program one-shot converse on the minimal simulation cost for fixed error tolerance.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Michael X. Cao , Navneeth Ramakrishnan , Mario Berta , Marco Tomamichel

We develop a systematic approach, based on convex programming and real analysis, for obtaining upper bounds on the capacity of the binary deletion channel and, more generally, channels with i.i.d. insertions and deletions. Other than the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Mahdi Cheraghchi

Channels with synchronization errors, exhibiting deletion and insertion errors, find practical applications in DNA storage, data reconstruction, and various other domains. Presence of insertions and deletions render the channel with memory,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Busra Tegin , Tolga M Duman

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 generalize the quantum Arimoto-Blahut algorithm by Ramakrishnan et al. (IEEE Trans. IT, 67, 946 (2021)) to a function defined over a set of density matrices with linear constraints so that our algorithm can be applied to optimizations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi , Geng Liu

Calculating the capacity (with or without feedback) of channels with memory and continuous alphabets is a challenging task. It requires optimizing the directed information (DI) rate over all channel input distributions. The objective is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ziv Aharoni , Dor Tsur , Ziv Goldfeld , Haim Henry Permuter

The mismatch capacity characterizes the highest information rate of the channel under a prescribed decoding metric and serves as a critical performance indicator in numerous practical communication scenarios. Compared to the commonly used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Xinwei Li , Lingyi Chen , Wenyi Zhang , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu

We investigate the fundamental limits of reliable communication over multi-view channels, in which the channel output is comprised of a large number of independent noisy views of a transmitted symbol. We consider first the setting of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Nir Weinberger

We study the problem of communicating over a discrete memoryless two-way channel using non-adaptive schemes, under a zero probability of error criterion. We derive single-letter inner and outer bounds for the zero-error capacity region,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yujie Gu , Ofer Shayevitz

We consider the discrete memoryless asymmetric broadcast channels. We prove that the error probability of decoding tends to one exponentially for rates outside the capacity region and derive an explicit lower bound of this exponent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yasutada Oohama

The recent paper (IEEE Trans. IT 69, 1680) introduced an analytical method for calculating the channel capacity without the need for iteration. This method has certain limitations that restrict its applicability. Furthermore, the paper does…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Masahito Hayashi

This paper studies several problems concerning channel inclusion, which is a partial ordering between discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) proposed by Shannon. Specifically, majorization-based conditions are derived for channel inclusion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-21 Yuan Zhang , Cihan Tepedelenlioglu

We study the determination problem of the channel capacity for the discrete memoryless channels in the finite blocklength regime. We derive explicit lower and upper bounds of the capacity. We shall demonstrate that the information spectrum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Yasutada Oohama

Mismatch capacity characterizes the highest information rate for a channel under a prescribed decoding metric, and is thus a highly relevant fundamental performance metric when dealing with many practically important communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Wenhao Ye , Huihui Wu , Shitong Wu , Yizhu Wang , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu , Bo Bai

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

We study the problem of channel resolvability for fixed i.i.d. input distributions and discrete memoryless channels (DMCs), and derive the strong converse theorem for any DMCs that are not necessarily full rank. We also derive the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-23 Shun Watanabe , Masahito Hayashi