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Optimal transport has numerous applications, particularly in machine learning tasks involving generative models. In practice, the transportation process often encounters an information bottleneck, typically arising from the conversion of a…

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Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative modeling approach with flexible choices of source distribution. While Gaussian distributions are commonly used, the potential for better alternatives in high-dimensional data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Junho Lee , Kwanseok Kim , Joonseok Lee

Binary measurements arise naturally in a variety of statistical and engineering applications. They may be inherent to the problem---e.g., in determining the relationship between genetics and the presence or absence of a disease---or they…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Richard Baraniuk , Simon Foucart , Deanna Needell , Yaniv Plan , Mary Wootters

In its most elementary form, compressed sensing studies the design of decoding algorithms to recover a sufficiently sparse vector or code from a lower dimensional linear measurement vector. Typically it is assumed that the decoder has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Michael Murray , Jared Tanner

We consider distributed convex optimization problems originated from sample average approximation of stochastic optimization, or empirical risk minimization in machine learning. We assume that each machine in the distributed computing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Yuchen Zhang , Lin Xiao

In this paper, we investigate the problem of recovering source information from an incomplete set of network coded data. We first study the theoretical performance of such systems under maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding and derive the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Eirina Bourtsoulatze , Nikolaos Thomos , Pascal Frossard

As conventional communication systems based on classic information theory have closely approached the limits of Shannon channel capacity, semantic communication has been recognized as a key enabling technology for the further improvement of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

We consider the problem of solving a distributed optimization problem using a distributed computing platform, where the communication in the network is limited: each node can only communicate with its neighbours and the channel has a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Ye Pu , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Colin N. Jones

Generative image codecs aim to optimize perceptual quality, producing realistic and detailed reconstructions. However, they often overlook a key property of human vision: our tendency to focus on particular aspects of a visual scene (e.g.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Lucas Relic , Roberto Azevedo , Yang Zhang , Stephan Mandt , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

The distributed subgradient method (DSG) is a widely discussed algorithm to cope with large-scale distributed optimization problems in the arising machine learning applications. Most exisiting works on DSG focus on ideal communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Zhaoyue Xia , Jun Du , Yong Ren

It has been shown lately the optimality of uncoded transmission in estimating Gaussian sources over homogeneous/symmetric Gaussian multiple access channels (MAC) using multiple sensors. It remains, however, unclear whether it still holds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-27 Shuangqing Wei , Rajgopal Kannan , Sitharama Iyengar , Nageswara S. Rao

This paper considers the problem of channel coding over Gaussian intersymbol interference (ISI) channels with a given metric decoding rule. Specifically, it is assumed that the mismatched decoder has an incorrect assumption on the impulse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Wasim Huleihel , Salman Salamatian , Neri Merhav , Muriel Médard

In lossy compression, Wang et al. [1] recently introduced the rate-distortion-perception-classification function, which supports multi-task learning by jointly optimizing perceptual quality, classification accuracy, and reconstruction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Nam Nguyen , Thuan Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

Coded source compression, also known as source compression with helpers, has been a major variant of distributed source compression, but has hitherto received little attention in the quantum regime. This work treats and solves the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Shun Watanabe

Recent work has shown how denoising and contractive autoencoders implicitly capture the structure of the data-generating density, in the case where the corruption noise is Gaussian, the reconstruction error is the squared error, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Yoshua Bengio , Li Yao , Guillaume Alain , Pascal Vincent

Communication is a key bottleneck in distributed training. Recently, an \emph{error-compensated} compression technology was particularly designed for the \emph{centralized} learning and receives huge successes, by showing significant…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Hanlin Tang , Xiangru Lian , Shuang Qiu , Lei Yuan , Ce Zhang , Tong Zhang , Ji Liu

We study a new encoding scheme for lossy source compression based on spatially coupled low-density generator-matrix codes. We develop a belief-propagation guided-decimation algorithm, and show that this algorithm allows to approach the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-23 Vahid Aref , Nicolas Macris , Rudiger Urbanke , Marc Vuffray

We consider the problem of distributed lossy linear function computation in a tree network. We examine two cases: (i) data aggregation (only one sink node computes) and (ii) consensus (all nodes compute the same function). By quantifying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-16 Yaoqing Yang , Pulkit Grover , Soummya Kar

We propose a novel sparse spectrum approximation of Gaussian process (GP) tailored for Bayesian optimization. Whilst the current sparse spectrum methods provide desired approximations for regression problems, it is observed that this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Ang Yang , Cheng Li , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

Gradient compression (GC) is a promising approach to addressing the communication bottleneck in distributed deep learning (DDL). However, it is challenging to find the optimal compression strategy for applying GC to DDL because of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Zhuang Wang , Haibin Lin , Yibo Zhu , T. S. Eugene Ng