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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

In this semi-tutorial paper, we first review the information-theoretic approach to account for the computational costs incurred during the search for optimal actions in a sequential decision-making problem. The traditional (MDP) framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Daniel T. Larsson , Daniel Braun , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Even though rate-distortion optimization is a crucial part of traditional image and video compression, not many approaches exist which transfer this concept to end-to-end-trained image compression. Most frameworks contain static compression…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Fabian Brand , Kristian Fischer , Alexander Kopte , André Kaup

This paper deals with the computation of a non-asymptotic lower bound by means of the nonanticipative rate-distortion function (NRDF) on the discrete-time zero-delay variable-rate lossy compression problem for discrete Markov sources with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Zixuan He , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Photios A. Stavrou

Rate-distortion (RD) theory is at the heart of lossy data compression. Here we aim to model the generalized RD (GRD) trade-off between the visual quality of a compressed video and its encoding profiles (e.g., bitrate and spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Zhengfang Duanmu , Wentao Liu , Zhuoran Li , Kede Ma , Zhou Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel function named Rate Distortion-in-Distortion (RDD) function as an extension of the classical rate-distortion (RD) function, where the expected distortion constraint is replaced by a Gromov-type distortion.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Lingyi Chen , Haoran Tang , Shitong Wu , Jiakun Liu , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu

We establish the first information-theoretic limits for multimodal retrieval. Casting ranking as lossy source coding, we derive a single-letter rate-distortion function $R(D)$ for reciprocal-rank distortion and prove a converse bound that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Thomas Y. Chen

This paper is concerned with quantum data compression of asymptotically many independent and identically distributed copies of ensembles of mixed quantum states. The encoder has access to a side information system. The figure of merit is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Zahra Baghali Khanian , Kohdai Kuroiwa , Debbie Leung

Lossy data compression lies at the heart of modern communication and storage systems. Shannon's rate-distortion theory provides the fundamental limit on how much a source can be compressed at a given fidelity, but it assumes infinitely long…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Bhaskar Krishnamachari

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 probabilistic diffusion model (DM), generating content by inferencing through a recursive chain structure, has emerged as a powerful framework for visual generation. After pre-training on enormous data, the model needs to be properly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tao Ren , Zishi Zhang , Jingyang Jiang , Zehao Li , Shentao Qin , Yi Zheng , Guanghao Li , Qianyou Sun , Yan Li , Jiafeng Liang , Xinping Li , Yijie Peng

End-to-end optimized neural image compression (NIC) has obtained superior lossy compression performance recently. In this paper, we consider the problem of rate-distortion (R-D) characteristic analysis and modeling for NIC. We make efforts…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Chuanmin Jia , Ziqing Ge , Shanshe Wang , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Recently, a number of authors have proposed decoding schemes for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes based on multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm. In this paper, we present a rate-distortion (R-D) approach to analyze these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

We formulate em algorithm in the framework of Bregman divergence, which is a general problem setting of information geometry. That is, we address the minimization problem of the Bregman divergence between an exponential subfamily and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi

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

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

Many aspects of human learning have been proposed as a process of constructing mental programs: from acquiring symbolic number representations to intuitive theories about the world. In parallel, there is a long-tradition of using…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Hanqi Zhou , David G. Nagy , Charley M. Wu

One popular approach to soft-decision decoding of Reed-Solomon (RS) codes is based on using multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm in combination with erasing or flipping a set of symbols or bits in each trial. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

Dynamic real-time optimization (DRTO) is a challenging task due to the fact that optimal operating conditions must be computed in real time. The main bottleneck in the industrial application of DRTO is the presence of uncertainty. Many…

Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO) has been shown to provide a flexible framework for decision making under uncertainty and statistical estimation. For example, recent works in DRO have shown that popular statistical estimators can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Jose Blanchet , Yang Kang , Fan Zhang , Zhangyi Hu