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We study lossy compression of a finite statement source generated in a fixed deductive environment. The source symbols are statements in a knowledge base endowed with a shared proof system, and reconstruction fidelity is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jianfeng Xu

Over the past two decades, the surge in video streaming applications has been fueled by the increasing accessibility of the internet and the growing demand for network video. As users with varying internet speeds and devices seek…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Maedeh Jamali , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Shahram Shirani

We present an algorithm for the statistical learning setting with a bounded exp-concave loss in $d$ dimensions that obtains excess risk $O(d \log(1/\delta)/n)$ with probability at least $1 - \delta$. The core technique is to boost the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Nishant A. Mehta

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

Complex information needs may involve set-compositional queries using conjunction, disjunction, and exclusion, yet it remains unclear whether current retrieval paradigms genuinely satisfy such constraints or exploit `semantic shortcuts'. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Vincent Degenhart , Dewi Timman , Arjen P. de Vries , Faegheh Hasibi , Mohanna Hoveyda

Linear block transform coding remains a fundamental component of image and video compression. Although the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) is widely employed in all current compression standards, its sub-optimality has sparked ongoing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Alessandro Gnutti , Chia-Hao Kao , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Riccardo Leonardi

The three-node multiterminal lossy source coding problem is investigated. We derive an inner bound to the general rate-distortion region of this problem which is a natural extension of the seminal work by Kaspi'85 on the interactive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Leonardo Rey Vega , Pablo Piantanida , Alfred Hero

There are many tasks within video compression which require fast bit rate estimation. As an example, rate-control algorithms are only feasible because it is possible to estimate the required bit rate without needing to encode the entire…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Fabian Brand , Christian Herglotz , André Kaup

In this paper, we study the problem of mean estimation under 1-bit communication constraints. We propose a novel adaptive mean estimator based solely on randomized threshold queries, where each 1-bit outcome indicates whether a given sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-25 Ivan Lau , Jonathan Scarlett

For a Gaussian source under mean-squared error (MSE), classical transform coding is rate--distortion (RD) optimal: the Karhunen--Loeve transform (KLT) diagonalizes the covariance, reverse waterfilling allocates the bits, and scalar…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bumsu Park , Chanho Park , Youngmok Park , Namyoon Lee

Around the mean dimensions and rate-distortion functions, using some tools from local entropy theory this paper establishes the following main results: $(1)$ We prove that for non-ergodic measures associated with almost sure processes, the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Rui Yang

We establish convergence of the training dynamics of residual neural networks (ResNets) to their joint infinite depth L, hidden width M, and embedding dimension D limit. Specifically, we consider ResNets with two-layer perceptron blocks in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Louis-Pierre Chaintron , Lénaïc Chizat , Javier Maass

The source-coding problem with side information at the decoder is studied subject to a constraint that the encoder---to whom the side information is unavailable---be able to compute the decoder's reconstruction sequence to within some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Amos Lapidoth , Andreas Malär , Michèle Wigger

This paper takes a rate-distortion approach to understanding the information-theoretic laws governing cache-aided communications systems. Specifically, we characterise the optimal tradeoffs between the delivery rate, cache capacity and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Roy Timo , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti , Michèle Wigger , Bernhard C. Geiger

We apply statistical mechanics to an inverse problem of linear mapping to investigate the physics of the irreversible compression. We use the replica symmetry breaking (RSB) technique with a toy model to demonstrate the Shannon's result.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Tatsuto Murayama , Masato Okada

This paper studies the performance of sparse regression codes for lossy compression with the squared-error distortion criterion. In a sparse regression code, codewords are linear combinations of subsets of columns of a design matrix. It is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Ramji Venkataramanan , Sekhar Tatikonda

In this paper, we study the problem of relaying a single bit over a tandem of binary-input channels, with the goal of attaining the highest possible error exponent in the exponentially decaying error probability. Our previous work gave an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Yan Hao Ling , Jonathan Scarlett

The nascent field of Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory is seeing a surge of research interest due to the application of machine learning techniques in the area of lossy compression. The information RDP function characterizes the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Chunhui Chen , Xueyan Niu , Wenhao Ye , Shitong Wu , Bo Bai , Weichao Chen , Sian-Jheng Lin

We consider the lossy quantum source coding problem where the task is to compress a given quantum source below its von Neumann entropy. Inspired by the duality connections between the rate-distortion and channel coding problems in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Touheed Anwar Atif , Mohammad Aamir Sohail , S. Sandeep Pradhan

A two-terminal interactive function computation problem with alternating messages is studied within the framework of distributed block source coding theory. For any finite number of messages, a single-letter characterization of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-06 Nan Ma , Prakash Ishwar