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Recently, a number of authors have proposed decoding schemes for Reed-Solomon (RS) codes based on multiple trials of a simple RS decoding algorithm. In this paper, we present a rate-distortion (R-D) approach to analyze these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-21 Phong S. Nguyen , Henry D. Pfister , Krishna R. Narayanan

We show that many perception tasks, from visual recognition, semantic segmentation, optical flow, depth estimation to vocalization discrimination, are highly redundant functions of their input data. Images or spectrograms, projected into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Rahul Ramesh , Anthony Bisulco , Ronald W. DiTullio , Linran Wei , Vijay Balasubramanian , Kostas Daniilidis , Pratik Chaudhari

Classical rate-distortion theory requires knowledge of an elusive source distribution. Instead, we analyze rate-distortion properties of individual objects using the recently developed algorithmic rate-distortion theory. The latter is based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Steven de Rooij , Paul Vitanyi

The enormous size of modern deep neural networks makes it challenging to deploy those models in memory and communication limited scenarios. Thus, compressing a trained model without a significant loss in performance has become an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Weihao Gao , Yu-Han Liu , Chong Wang , Sewoong Oh

We study the representation complexity of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning (RL) in the context of circuit complexity. We prove theoretically that there exists a broad class of MDPs such that their underlying transition and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hanlin Zhu , Baihe Huang , Stuart Russell

We study the problem of subsampling in differential privacy (DP), a question that is the centerpiece behind many successful differentially private machine learning algorithms. Specifically, we provide a tight upper bound on the R\'enyi…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yu-Xiang Wang , Borja Balle , Shiva Kasiviswanathan

In this paper, we investigate the problem of distributionally robust source coding, i.e., source coding under uncertainty in the source distribution, discussing both the coding and computational aspects of the problem. We propose two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Giuseppe Serra , Photios A. Stavrou , Marios Kountouris

In the rate-distortion function and the Maximum Entropy (ME) method, Minimum Mutual In-formation (MMI) distributions and ME distributions are expressed by Bayes-like formulas, in-cluding Negative Exponential Functions (NEFs) and partition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Chenguang Lu

Learning compact state representations in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) has proven crucial for addressing the curse of dimensionality in large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) problems. Existing principled approaches leverage structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tommaso Giorgi , Pierriccardo Olivieri , Keyue Jiang , Laura Toni , Matteo Papini

The distortion-rate function of output-constrained lossy source coding with limited common randomness is analyzed for the special case of squared error distortion measure. An explicit expression is obtained when both source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Li Xie , Liangyan Li , Jun Chen , Zhongshan Zhang

This paper is concerned with a rate-distortion theory for sequences of i.i.d. random variables with general distribution supported on general sets including manifolds and fractal sets. Manifold structures are prevalent in data science,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Erwin Riegler , Günther Koliander , Helmut Bölcskei

This paper establishes the theoretical limits of channel state information (CSI) feedback in frequency-division duplexing (FDD) multi-antenna orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems under finite-length training with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shuao Chen , Junyuan Gao , Yuxuan Shi , Yongpeng Wu , Giuseppe Caire , H. Vincent Poor , Wenjun Zhang

The recently developed matrix based Renyi's entropy enables measurement of information in data simply using the eigenspectrum of symmetric positive semi definite (PSD) matrices in reproducing kernel Hilbert space, without estimation of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-10 Tieliang Gong , Yuxin Dong , Shujian Yu , Bo Dong

In this paper, we propose a novel function named Rate Distortion-in-Distortion (RDD) function as an extension of the classical rate-distortion (RD) function, where the expected distortion constraint is replaced by a Gromov-type distortion.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Lingyi Chen , Haoran Tang , Shitong Wu , Jiakun Liu , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang , Hao Wu

We consider causal, low-latency, sequential lossy compression, with mean squared-error (MSE) as the distortion loss, and a perception loss function (PLF) to enhance the realism of reconstructions. As the main contribution, we propose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Buu Phan , Likun Cai , Joao Atz Dick , Wei Yu , Jun Chen , Ashish Khisti

We propose a unified optimization framework for designing continuous and discrete noise distributions that ensure differential privacy (DP) by minimizing R\'enyi DP, a variant of DP, under a cost constraint. R\'enyi DP has the advantage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Atefeh Gilani , Juan Felipe Gomez , Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

We prove the conjecture stated in Appendix F.3 of [Zhu et al. (2022)]: among all conversion rules that map a R\'enyi Differential Privacy (RDP) profile $\tau \mapsto \rho(\tau)$ to a valid hypothesis-testing trade-off $f$, the rule based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Anneliese Riess , Juan Felipe Gomez , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Julia Anne Schnabel , Georgios Kaissis

We consider a rate-distortion problem with side information at multiple decoders. Several upper and lower bounds have been proposed for this general problem or special cases of it. We provide an upper bound for general instances of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Sinem Unal , Aaron B. Wagner

It is well known that independent (separate) encoding of K correlated sources may incur some rate loss compared to joint encoding, even if the decoding is done jointly. This loss is particularly evident in the multiple descriptions problem,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jan Østergaard , Uri Erez , Ram Zamir

Sparse representation over redundant dictionaries constitutes a good model for many classes of signals (e.g., patches of natural images, segments of speech signals, etc.). However, despite its popularity, very little is known about the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-07 Rotem Mulayoff , Tomer Michaeli