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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…

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It is well known that lossless compression of a discrete memoryless source with near-uniform encoder output is possible at a rate above its entropy if and only if the encoder is randomized. This work focuses on deriving conditions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Badri N Vellambi , Joerg Kliewer , Matthieu Bloch

This paper presents new lower and upper bounds for the optimal compression of binary prefix codes in terms of the most probable input symbol, where compression efficiency is determined by the nonlinear codeword length objective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-09-09 Michael Baer

Motivated from the fact that universal source coding on countably infinite alphabets is not feasible, this work introduces the notion of almost lossless source coding. Analog to the weak variable-length source coding problem studied by Han…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jorge F. Silva , Pablo Piantanida

Graphical data is comprised of a graph with marks on its edges and vertices. The mark indicates the value of some attribute associated to the respective edge or vertex. Examples of such data arise in social networks, molecular and systems…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-24 Payam Delgosha , Venkat Anantharam

Raptor code ensembles with linear random outer codes in a fixed-rate setting are considered. An expression for the average distance spectrum is derived and this expression is used to obtain the asymptotic exponent of the weight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Francisco Lázaro , Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva , Gerhard Bauch

In this work, lossy distributed compression of pairs of correlated sources is considered. Conventionally, Shannon's random coding arguments -- using randomly generated unstructured codebooks whose blocklength is taken to be asymptotically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We study problem-dependent rates, i.e., generalization errors that scale near-optimally with the variance, the effective loss, or the gradient norms evaluated at the "best hypothesis." We introduce a principled framework dubbed "uniform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-25 Yunbei Xu , Assaf Zeevi

The sample compression theory provides generalization guarantees for predictors that can be fully defined using a subset of the training dataset and a (short) message string, generally defined as a binary sequence. Previous works provided…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Mathieu Bazinet , Valentina Zantedeschi , Pascal Germain

In this paper, we derive non-asymptotic achievability and converse bounds on the random number generation with/without side-information. Our bounds are efficiently computable in the sense that the computational complexity does not depend on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Masahito Hayashi , Shun Watanabe

We consider the discrete memoryless degraded 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 function.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Yasutada Oohama

This paper considers error probabilities of random codes for memoryless channels in the fixed-rate regime. Random coding is a fundamental scheme to achieve the channel capacity and many studies have been conducted for the asymptotics of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Junya Honda

Universal compression of patterns of sequences generated by independently identically distributed (i.i.d.) sources with unknown, possibly large, alphabets is investigated. A pattern is a sequence of indices that contains all consecutive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gil I. Shamir

The support recovery problem consists of determining a sparse subset of a set of variables that is relevant in generating a set of observations, and arises in a diverse range of settings such as compressive sensing, and subset selection in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Jonathan Scarlett , Volkan Cevher

We present a framework for the theoretical analysis of ensembles of low-complexity empirical risk minimisers trained on independent random compressions of high-dimensional data. First we introduce a general distribution-dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Henry W. J. Reeve , Ata Kaban

The encoder and decoder for lossy data compression of binary memoryless sources are developed on the basis of a specific-type nonmonotonic perceptron. Statistical mechanical analysis indicates that the potential ability of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Tadaaki Hosaka , Yoshiyuki Kabashima

This paper is dedicated to lossless data compression with probability estimation using neural networks. First, we propose a probability estimation architecture based on a chain of neural predictors, so that each unit of the chain is defined…

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In scientific simulations, observations, and experiments, the cost of transferring data to and from disk and across networks has become a significant bottleneck that particularly impacts subsequent data analysis and visualization. To…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Victor A. P. Magri , Peter Lindstrom

Realism constraints (or constraints on perceptual quality) have received considerable recent attention within the context of lossy compression, particularly of images. Theoretical studies of lossy compression indicate that high-rate common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yassine Hamdi , Aaron B. Wagner , Deniz Gündüz

Data compression algorithms typically rely on identifying repeated sequences of symbols from the original data to provide a compact representation of the same information, while maintaining the ability to recover the original data from the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Francesco Taurone , Daniel E. Lucani , Marcell Fehér , Qi Zhang