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We present a new information-theoretic definition and associated results, based on list decoding in a source coding setting. We begin by presenting list-source codes, which naturally map a key length (entropy) to list size. We then show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Flavio du Pin Calmon , Muriel Médard , Linda M. Zeger , João Barros , Mark M. Christiansen , Ken. R. Duffy

The weak law of large numbers implies that, under mild assumptions on the source, the Renyi entropy per produced symbol converges (in probability) towards the Shannon entropy rate. This paper quantifies the speed of this convergence for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Maciej Skorski

The second-order achievable asymptotics in typical random number generation problems such as resolvability, intrinsic randomness, fixed-length source coding are considered. In these problems, several researchers have derived the first-order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-01 Ryo Nomura , Te Sun Han

The field of compressed sensing has shown that a sparse but otherwise arbitrary vector can be recovered exactly from a small number of randomly constructed linear projections (or samples). The question addressed in this paper is whether an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-26 Galen Reeves , Michael Gastpar

This dissertation investigates relative entropies, also called generalized divergences, and how they can be used to characterize information-theoretic tasks in quantum information theory. The main goal is to further refine characterizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-29 Felix Leditzky

We study the problem of compression for the purpose of similarity identification, where similarity is measured by the mean square Euclidean distance between vectors. While the asymptotical fundamental limits of the problem - the minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Fabian Steiner , Steffen Dempfle , Amir Ingber , Tsachy Weissman

We introduce a new protocol for a lossy data compression algorithm which is based on constraint satisfaction gates. We show that the theoretical capacity of algorithms built from standard parity-check gates converges exponentially fast to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Ciliberti , M. Mezard , R. Zecchina

We draw a certain analogy between the classical information-theoretic problem of lossy data compression (source coding) of memoryless information sources and the statistical mechanical behavior of a certain model of a chain of connected…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Neri Merhav

The rapid growth of digital data has heightened the demand for efficient lossless compression methods. However, existing algorithms exhibit trade-offs: some achieve high compression ratios, others excel in encoding or decoding speed, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Md. Atiqur Rahman , MM Fazle Rabbi

It is well known that lossless compression of a discrete memoryless source with near-uniform encoder output is possible at a rate above its entropy if and only if the encoder is randomized. This work focuses on deriving conditions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Badri N Vellambi , Joerg Kliewer , Matthieu Bloch

The linear inverse source and scattering problems are studied from the perspective of compressed sensing, in particular the idea that sufficient incoherence and sparsity guarantee uniqueness of the solution. By introducing the sensor as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-05-19 Albert Fannjiang , Pengchong Yan , Thomas Strohmer

Samplets are data adapted multiresolution analyses of localized discrete signed measures. They can be constructed on scattered data sites in arbitrary dimension such that they exhibit vanishing moments with respect to any prescribed set of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Gianluca Giacchi , Michael Multerer , Jacopo Quizi

This paper considers the joint compression of a pair of correlated sources, where the encoder is allowed to access only one of the sources. The objective is to recover both sources under separate distortion constraints for each source while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Huiyuan Yang , Yuxuan Shi , Shuo Shao , Xiaojun Yuan

Quantifying the complexity and irregularity of time series data is a primary pursuit across various data-scientific disciplines. Sample entropy (SampEn) is a widely adopted metric for this purpose, but its reliability is sensitive to the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-05-13 Zachary Blanks , Donald E. Brown

We consider some computationally efficient and provably correct algorithms with near-optimal sample-complexity for the problem of noisy non-adaptive group testing. Group testing involves grouping arbitrary subsets of items into pools. Each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Chun Lam Chan , Sidharth Jaggi , Venkatesh Saligrama , Samar Agnihotri

We study fundamental theoretical aspects of probabilistic roadmaps (PRM) in the finite time (non-asymptotic) regime. In particular, we investigate how completeness and optimality guarantees of the approach are influenced by the underlying…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Matthew Tsao , Kiril Solovey , Marco Pavone

We begin by presenting a simple lossy compressor operating at near-zero rate: The encoder merely describes the indices of the few maximal source components, while the decoder's reconstruction is a natural estimate of the source components…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Albert No , Tsachy Weissman

We propose a general framework for neural network compression that is motivated by the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. For that we first derive an expression for the entropy of a neural network, which measures its complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Simon Wiedemann , Arturo Marban , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

Compression refers to encoding data using bits, so that the representation uses as few bits as possible. Compression could be lossless: i.e. encoded data can be recovered exactly from its representation) or lossy where the data is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Narayana Santhanam , Dharmendra Modha

This paper investigates, from information theoretic grounds, a learning problem based on the principle that any regularity in a given dataset can be exploited to extract compact features from data, i.e., using fewer bits than needed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Matías Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega , Pablo Piantanida