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We study four problems namely, Campbell's source coding problem, Arikan's guessing problem, Huieihel et al.'s memoryless guessing problem, and Bunte and Lapidoth's task partitioning problem. We observe a close relationship among these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-17 M. Ashok Kumar , Albert Sunny , Ashish Thakre , Ashisha Kumar

In this monograph, we review recent advances in second-order asymptotics for lossy source coding, which provides approximations to the finite blocklength performance of optimal codes. The monograph is divided into three parts. In part I, we…

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Human cognition typically involves thinking through abstract, fluid concepts rather than strictly using discrete linguistic tokens. Current reasoning models, however, are constrained to reasoning within the boundaries of human language,…

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The likelihood encoder with a random codebook is demonstrated as an effective tool for source coding. Coupled with a soft covering lemma (associated with channel resolvability), likelihood encoders yield simple achievability proofs for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Paul Cuff , Eva C. Song

This paper provides tight bounds on the R\'enyi entropy of a function of a discrete random variable with a finite number of possible values, where the considered function is not one-to-one. To that end, a tight lower bound on the R\'enyi…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Igal Sason

We establish that it is possible to extract accurate blockwise and bitwise soft output from Guessing Codeword Decoding with minimal additional computational complexity by considering it as a variant of Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ken R. Duffy , Peihong Yuan , Joseph Griffin , Muriel Medard

We consider the problem of guessing the realization of a random variable but under more general Tsallis' non-extensive entropic framework rather than the classical Maxwell-Boltzman-Gibbs-Shannon framework. We consider both the conditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Abhik Ghosh

Understanding the fundamental limits of robust supervised learning has emerged as a problem of immense interest, from both practical and theoretical standpoints. In particular, it is critical to determine classifier-agnostic bounds on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Daniel Cullina , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

We consider lossy source coding when side information affecting the distortion measure may be available at the encoder, decoder, both, or neither. For example, such distortion side information can model reliabilities for noisy measurements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Emin Martinian , Gregory W. Wornell , Ram Zamir

Machine learning has had a major impact on data compression over the last decade and inspired many new, exciting theoretical and applied questions. This paper describes one such direction -- relative entropy coding -- which focuses on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Gergely Flamich , Deniz Gündüz

We consider the problem of lossy source coding with a mismatched distortion measure. That is, we investigate what distortion guarantees can be made with respect to distortion measure $\tilde{\rho}$, for a source code designed such that it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-07 Urs Niesen , Devavrat Shah , Gregory Wornell

This paper considers the problem of lossy compression for the computation of a function of two correlated sources, both of which are observed at the encoder. Due to presence of observation costs, the encoder is allowed to observe only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-22 Xi Liu , Osvaldo Simeone , Elza Erkip

This study considers the unconditional smooth R\'{e}nyi entropy, the smooth conditional R\'{e}nyi entropy proposed by Kuzuoka [\emph{IEEE Trans.\ Inf.\ Theory}, vol.~66, no.~3, pp.~1674--1690, 2020], and a new quantity which we term the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Yuta Sakai , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We consider a problem of guessing, wherein an adversary is interested in knowing the value of the realization of a discrete random variable $X$ on observing another correlated random variable $Y$. The adversary can make multiple (say, $k$)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Gowtham R. Kurri , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

This paper considers lossy source coding of $n$-dimensional memoryless sources and shows an explicit approximation to the minimum source coding rate required to sustain the probability of exceeding distortion $d$ no greater than $\epsilon$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Victoria Kostina

The variable-length source coding problem allowing the error probability up to some constant is considered for general sources. In this problem the optimum mean codeword length of variable-length codes has already been determined. On the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-19 Ryo Nomura , Hideki Yagi

We study the problem of compressing a source sequence in the presence of side-information that is related to the source via insertions, deletions and substitutions. We propose a simple algorithm to compress the source sequence when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

This paper considers the problem of variable-length lossy source coding. The performance criteria are the excess distortion probability and the cumulant generating function of codeword lengths. We derive a non-asymptotic fundamental limit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Shota Saito , Toshiyasu Matsushima

In this paper we consider lossless source coding for a class of sources specified by the total variational distance ball centred at a fixed nominal probability distribution. The objective is to find a minimax average length source code,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Themistoklis Charalambous , Charalambos D. Charalambous , Sergey Loyka

We consider a multiterminal source coding problem in which a source is estimated at a central processing unit from lossy-compressed remote observations. Each lossy-encoded observation is produced by a remote sensor which obtains a noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Ruiyang Song , Stefano Rini , Alon Kipnis , Andrea J. Goldsmith