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In this paper we invoke a nonanticipative information Rate Distortion Function (RDF) for sources with memory, and we analyze its importance in probabilistic matching of the source to the channel so that transmission of a symbol-by-symbol…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-26 Christos Kourtellaris , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou

This paper investigates applications of nonanticipative Rate Distortion Function (RDF) in a) zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) design based on average and excess distortion probability, b) in bounding the Optimal Performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Photios A. Stavrou , Christos K. Kourtellaris , C. D. Charalambous

Generalization to novel visual conditions remains a central challenge for both human and machine vision, yet standard robustness metrics offer limited insight into how systems trade accuracy for robustness. We introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Leyla Roksan Caglar , Pedro A. M. Mediano , Baihan Lin

This paper studies the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) tradeoff for a memoryless source model in the asymptotic limit of large block-lengths. The perception measure is based on a divergence between the distributions of the source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti , Wei Yu

In this paper we analyze the joint rate distortion function (RDF), for a tuple of correlated sources taking values in abstract alphabet spaces (i.e., continuous) subject to two individual distortion criteria. First, we derive structural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Evagoras Stylianou , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous

In this paper we introduce two variational equalities of directed information, which are analogous to those of mutual information employed in the Blahut-Arimoto Algorithm (BAA). Subsequently, we introduce nonanticipative Rate Distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Photios A. Stavrou , Charalambos D. Charalambous

Algorithms based on multiple decoding attempts of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes have recently attracted new attention. Choosing decoding candidates based on rate-distortion (R-D) theory, as proposed previously by the authors, currently provides…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

In this paper, we consider the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) trade-off for the lossy compression of a Bernoulli vector source, which is a finite collection of independent binary random variables. The RDP function quantifies in a way the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Mihai-Alin Badiu , Justin P. Coon

Motivated by questions in lossy data compression and by theoretical considerations, we examine the problem of estimating the rate-distortion function of an unknown (not necessarily discrete-valued) source from empirical data. Our focus is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-18 M. T. Harrison , I. Kontoyiannis

The Blahut-Arimoto (BA) algorithm has played a fundamental role in the numerical computation of rate-distortion (RD) functions. This algorithm possesses a desirable monotonic convergence property by alternatively minimizing its Lagrangian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu , Bo Bai

A rekindled the interest in auto-encoder algorithms has been spurred by recent work on deep learning. Current efforts have been directed towards effective training of auto-encoder architectures with a large number of coding units. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-18 Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo , Jose C. Principe

This paper investigates the rate-distortion function, under a squared error distortion $D$, for an $n$-dimensional random vector uniformly distributed on an $(n-1)$-sphere of radius $R$. First, an expression for the rate-distortion function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Alex Dytso , Martina Cardone

Sequential rate-distortion (SRD) theory provides a framework for studying the fundamental trade-off between data-rate and data-quality in real-time communication systems. In this paper, we consider the SRD problem for multi-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Takashi Tanaka , Kwang-Ki K. Kim , Pablo A. Parrilo , Sanjoy K. Mitter

The relation between nonanticipative Rate Distortion Function (RDF) and filtering theory is discussed on abstract spaces. The relation is established by imposing a realizability constraint on the reconstruction conditional distribution of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou , Nasir U. Ahmed

It is well-understood that different algorithms, training processes, and corpora produce different word embeddings. However, less is known about the relation between different embedding spaces, i.e. how far different sets of embeddings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xuhui Zhou , Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang

Classical rate-distortion theory requires knowledge of an elusive source distribution. Instead, we analyze rate-distortion properties of individual objects using the recently developed algorithmic rate-distortion theory. The latter is based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Steven de Rooij , Paul Vitanyi

Stochastic mirror descent (SMD) is a fairly new family of algorithms that has recently found a wide range of applications in optimization, machine learning, and control. It can be considered a generalization of the classical stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Navid Azizan , Babak Hassibi

In this paper, we investigate the rate-distortion-perception function (RDPF) of a source modeled by a Gaussian Process (GP) on a measure space $\Omega$ under mean squared error (MSE) distortion and squared Wasserstein-2 perception metrics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

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

In machine learning and statistical data analysis, we often run into objective function that is a summation: the number of terms in the summation possibly is equal to the sample size, which can be enormous. In such a setting, the stochastic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-30 Yiling Luo , Xiaoming Huo , Yajun Mei