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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

Batched network coding is a low-complexity network coding solution to feedbackless multi-hop wireless packet network transmission with packet loss. The data to be transmitted is encoded into batches where each of which consists of a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jie Wang , Zhiyuan Jia , Hoover H. F. Yin , Shenghao Yang

Due to the fundamental connection between next-symbol prediction and compression, modern predictive models, such as large language models (LLMs), can be combined with entropy coding to achieve compression rates that surpass those of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Cordelia Hu , Jennifer Tang

Optimal control synthesis in stochastic systems with respect to quantitative temporal logic constraints can be formulated as linear programming problems. However, centralized synthesis algorithms do not scale to many practical systems. To…

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Lossy gradient compression, with either unbiased or biased compressors, has become a key tool to avoid the communication bottleneck in centrally coordinated distributed training of machine learning models. We analyze the performance of two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Sebastian U. Stich

We consider a backhaul-constrained coordinated cellular network. That is, a single-frequency network with $N+1$ multi-antenna base stations (BSs) that cooperate in order to decode the users' data, and that are linked by means of a common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-07 Aitor del Coso , Sebastien Simoens

The problem of sequentially maximizing the expectation of a function seeks to maximize the expected value of a function of interest without having direct control on its features. Instead, the distribution of such features depends on a given…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-26 Diego Martinez-Taboada , Dino Sejdinovic

Lossy transmission over a relay channel in which the relay has access to correlated side information is considered. First, a joint source-channel decode-and-forward scheme is proposed for general discrete memoryless sources and channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Deniz Gunduz , Elza Erkip , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Recent research has shown a strong theoretical connection between variational autoencoders (VAEs) and the rate-distortion theory. Motivated by this, we consider the problem of lossy image compression from the perspective of generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-28 Zhihao Duan , Ming Lu , Zhan Ma , Fengqing Zhu

Distributed optimization is pivotal for large-scale signal processing and machine learning, yet communication overhead remains a major bottleneck. Low-rank gradient compression, in which the transmitted gradients are approximated by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chuyan Chen , Yutong He , Pengrui Li , Weichen Jia , Kun Yuan

There has been a growing interest in statistical inference from data satisfying the so-called manifold hypothesis, assuming data points in the high-dimensional ambient space to lie in close vicinity of a submanifold of much lower dimension.…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-04 Rong Tang , Yun Yang

We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements from an underlying random process, code and transmit those…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Nan Liu , Sennur Ulukus

Deconvolution is a statistical inverse problem to estimate the distribution of a random variable based on its noisy observations. Despite the extensive studies on the topic, deconvolution with unknown noise distribution remains as a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Devavrat Shah , Dogyoon Song

We examine the problem of creating an encoded distributed storage representation of a data object for a network of mobile storage nodes so as to achieve the optimal recovery delay. A source node creates a single data object and disseminates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Derek Leong , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Tracey Ho

Many common types of data can be represented as functions that map coordinates to signal values, such as pixel locations to RGB values in the case of an image. Based on this view, data can be compressed by overfitting a compact neural…

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A new framework of compressive sensing (CS), namely statistical compressive sensing (SCS), that aims at efficiently sampling a collection of signals that follow a statistical distribution and achieving accurate reconstruction on average, is…

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We propose a new approach to the problem of optimizing autoencoders for lossy image compression. New media formats, changing hardware technology, as well as diverse requirements and content types create a need for compression algorithms…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-02 Lucas Theis , Wenzhe Shi , Andrew Cunningham , Ferenc Huszár

Variational inequalities as an effective tool for solving applied problems, including machine learning tasks, have been attracting more and more attention from researchers in recent years. The use of variational inequalities covers a wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Daniil Medyakov , Gleb Molodtsov , Aleksandr Beznosikov

Existing denoising generative models rely on solving discretized reverse-time SDEs or ODEs. In this paper, we identify a long-overlooked yet pervasive issue in this family of models: a misalignment between the pre-defined noise level and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jincheng Zhong , Boyuan Jiang , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Kun Gai , Mingsheng Long

We introduce a universal quantization scheme based on random coding, and we analyze its performance. This scheme consists of a source-independent random codebook (typically_mismatched_ to the source distribution), followed by optimal…

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