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Coded computation is a framework which provides redundancy in distributed computing systems to speed up largescale tasks. Although most existing works assume an error-free scenarios in a master-worker setup, the link failures are common in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Dong-Jun Han , Jy-yong Sohn , Jaekyun Moon

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

Secrecy in communication systems is measured herein by the distortion that an adversary incurs. The transmitter and receiver share secret key, which they use to encrypt communication and ensure distortion at an adversary. A model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Curt Schieler , Paul Cuff

Neural compression has brought tremendous progress in designing lossy compressors with good rate-distortion (RD) performance at low complexity. Thus far, neural compression design involves transforming the source to a latent vector, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Eric Lei , Hamed Hassani , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

In this paper, we consider the information-theoretic characterization of the set of achievable rates and distortions in a broad class of multiterminal communication scenarios with general continuous-valued sources and channels. A framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

A Delta-Sigma modulator that is often utilized to convert analog signals into digital signals can be modeled as a static uniform quantizer with an error feedback filter. In this paper, we present a rate-distortion analysis of quantizers…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Shuichi Ohno , Teruyuki Shiraki , M. Rizwan Tariq , Masaaki Nagahara

We present a new inner bound for the rate region of the $t$-stage successive-refinement problem with side-information. We also present a new upper bound for the rate-distortion function for lossy-source coding with multiple decoders and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Roy Timo , Terence Chan , Alexander Grant

We consider the classical two-encoder multiterminal source coding problem where distortion is measured under logarithmic loss. We provide a single-letter characterization of the achievable rate distortion region for arbitrarily correlated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Thomas Courtade , Tsachy Weissman

Motivated by linear network coding, communication channels perform linear operation over finite fields, namely linear operator channels (LOCs), are studied in this paper. For such a channel, its output vector is a linear transform of its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shenghao Yang , Siu-Wai Ho , Jin Meng , En-hui Yang , Raymond W. Yeung

One of the important unsolved problems in information theory is the conjecture that network coding has no rate benefit over routing in undirected unicast networks. Three known bounds on the symmetric rate in undirected unicast information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Mohammad Ishtiyaq Qureshi , Satyajit Thakor

We determine the rate region of the Gaussian scalar-help-vector source-coding problem under a covariance matrix distortion constraint. The rate region is achieved by a Gaussian achievable scheme. We introduce a novel outer bounding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Md Saifur Rahman , Aaron B. Wagner

In the context of lossy compression, Blau & Michaeli (2019) adopt a mathematical notion of perceptual quality and define the information rate-distortion-perception function, generalizing the classical rate-distortion tradeoff. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 George Zhang , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti

This paper introduces the notion of soft bits to address the rate-distortion optimization for learning-based image compression. Recent methods for such compression train an autoencoder end-to-end with an objective to strike a balance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-02 David Alexandre , Chih-Peng Chang , Wen-Hsiao Peng , Hsueh-Ming Hang

The polarization-adjusted convolutional (PAC) codes concatenate the polar transform and the convolutional transform to improve the decoding performance of the finite-length polar codes, where the rate-profile is used to construct the PAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-09 He Sun , Emanuele Viterbo , Rongke Liu

We study a lossy source coding problem for a memoryless remote source. The source data is broadcast over an arbitrarily varying channel (AVC) controlled by an adversary. One output of the AVC is received as input at the encoder, and another…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Amitalok J. Budkuley , Bikash Kumar Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Recent advances in Rate-Distortion-Perception (RDP) theory highlight the importance of balancing compression level, reconstruction quality, and perceptual fidelity. While previous work has explored numerical approaches to approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chunhui Chen , Linyi Chen , Xueyan Niu , Hao Wu

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

In steganography, we always hope to maximize the embedding payload subject to an upper-bounded distortion. We need suitable distortion measurement to evaluate the embedding impact. However, different distortion functions exposes different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Han-Zhou Wu

We consider correlated and distributed sources without cooperation at the encoder. For these sources, we derive the best achievable performance in the rate-distortion sense of any distributed compressed sensing scheme, under the constraint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-10 Giulio Coluccia , Aline Roumy , Enrico Magli

We examine the coordinated and universal rate-efficient sampling of a subset of correlated discrete memoryless sources followed by lossy compression of the sampled sources. The goal is to reconstruct a predesignated subset of sources within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Vinay Praneeth Boda , Prakash Narayan