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Information bottleneck (IB) and privacy funnel (PF) are two closely related optimization problems which have found applications in machine learning, design of privacy algorithms, capacity problems (e.g., Mrs. Gerber's Lemma), strong data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio Calmon

We provide a novel upper-bound on Witsenhausen's rate, the rate required in the zero-error analogue of the Slepian-Wolf problem; our bound is given in terms of a new information-theoretic functional defined on a certain graph. We then use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-25 Benjamin G. Kelly , Aaron B. Wagner

Extracting relevant information from data is crucial for all forms of learning. The information bottleneck (IB) method formalizes this, offering a mathematically precise and conceptually appealing framework for understanding learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn , David J. Schwab

The problem of secure lossy source-channel wiretapping with arbitrarily correlated side informations at both receivers is investigated. This scenario consists of an encoder (referred to as Alice) that wishes to compress a source and send it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Joffrey Villard , Pablo Piantanida , Shlomo Shamai

The information bottleneck problem (IB) of jointly stationary Gaussian sources is considered. A water-filling solution for the IB rate is given in terms of its SNR spectrum and whose rate is attained via frequency domain test-channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Michael Dikshtein , Nir Weinberger , Shlomo Shamai

The information bottleneck (IB) method is a technique for extracting information that is relevant for predicting the target random variable from the source random variable, which is typically implemented by optimizing the IB Lagrangian that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Ziqi Pan , Li Niu , Jianfu Zhang , Liqing Zhang

The muti-layer information bottleneck (IB) problem, where information is propagated (or successively refined) from layer to layer, is considered. Based on information forwarded by the preceding layer, each stage of the network is required…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Qianqian Yang , Pablo Piantanida , Deniz Gündüz

The Information Bottleneck (IB) is a method of lossy compression of relevant information. Its rate-distortion (RD) curve describes the fundamental tradeoff between input compression and the preservation of relevant information embedded in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Shlomi Agmon

In digital baseband processing, the forward error correction (FEC) unit belongs to the most demanding components in terms of computational complexity and power consumption. Hence, efficient implementation of FEC decoders is crucial for next…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Claus Kestel , Lucas Johannsen , Norbert Wehn

Information bottleneck (IB) is a paradigm to extract information in one target random variable from another relevant random variable, which has aroused great interest due to its potential to explain deep neural networks in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Bo Bai , Yining Sun

The source coding problem with encoded side information is considered. A lower bound on the strong converse exponent has been derived by Oohama, but its tightness has not been clarified. In this paper, we derive a tight strong converse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Daisuke Takeuchi , Shun Watanabe

Information Bottleneck (IB) is a technique to extract information about one target random variable through another relevant random variable. This technique has garnered significant interest due to its broad applications in information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Lingyi Chen , Shitong Wu , Jiachuan Ye , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu

We study error exponents for source coding with side information. Both achievable exponents and converse bounds are obtained for the following two cases: lossless source coding with coded information (SCCSI) and lossy source coding with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Benjamin G. Kelly , Aaron B. Wagner

A likelihood encoder is studied in the context of lossy source compression. The analysis of the likelihood encoder is based on the soft-covering lemma. It is demonstrated that the use of a likelihood encoder together with the soft-covering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Eva C. Song , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor

Exponential error bounds for the finite-alphabet interference channel (IFC) with two transmitter-receiver pairs, are investigated under the random coding regime. Our focus is on optimum decoding, as opposed to heuristic decoding rules that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-10-14 Raul Etkin , Neri Merhav , Erik Ordentlich

The problem of side-information scalable (SI-scalable) source coding is considered in this work, where the encoder constructs a progressive description, such that the receiver with high quality side information will be able to truncate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-08-01 Chao Tian , Suhas N. Diggavi

Locally decodable channel codes form a special class of error-correcting codes with the property that the decoder is able to reconstruct any bit of the input message from querying only a few bits of a noisy codeword. It is well known that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Ali Makhdoumi , Shao-Lun Huang , Muriel Medard , Yury Polyanskiy

Joint source and channel coding (JSCC) for image transmission has attracted increasing attention due to its robustness and high efficiency. However, the existing deep JSCC research mainly focuses on minimizing the distortion between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Lunan Sun , Yang Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Caili Guo , Walid Saad , H. Vincent Poor

We study the information leakage to a guessing adversary in zero-error source coding. The source coding problem is defined by a confusion graph capturing the distinguishability between source symbols. The information leakage is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Yucheng Liu , Lawrence Ong , Sarah Johnson , Joerg Kliewer , Parastoo Sadeghi , Phee Lep Yeoh

Information Bottleneck (IB) is a generalization of rate-distortion theory that naturally incorporates compression and relevance trade-offs for learning. Though the original IB has been extensively studied, there has not been much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Thanh T. Nguyen , Jaesik Choi