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We consider channel coding for discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) with a novel cost constraint that constrains both the mean and the variance of the cost of the codewords. We show that the maximum (asymptotically) achievable rate under the…

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Optical networks are vulnerable to physical layer attacks; wiretappers can improperly receive messages intended for legitimate recipients. Our work considers an aspect of this security problem within the domain of multimode fiber (MMF)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Eva C. Song , Emina Soljanin , Paul Cuff , H. Vincent Poor , Kyle Guan

In task-oriented communications, most existing work designed the physical-layer communication modules and learning based codecs with distinct objectives: learning is targeted at accurate execution of specific tasks, while communication aims…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-29 Chang Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Necessary conditions for asymptotically optimal sliding-block or stationary codes for source coding and rate-constrained simulation of memoryless sources are presented and used to motivate a design technique for trellis-encoded source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-24 Mark Z. Mao , Robert M. Gray , Tamas Linder

Tokens are becoming the basic units through which foundation models represent and process information for understanding and inference. However, traditional wireless communication, centered on bit-level fidelity, faces a mismatch between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sige Liu , Kezhi Wang

Despite a short history, neural image codecs have been shown to surpass classical image codecs in terms of rate-distortion performance. However, most of them suffer from significantly longer decoding times, which hinders the practical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Yixin Gao , Runsen Feng , Zongyu Guo , Zhibo Chen

Artificial intelligence (AI) provides an alternative way to design channel coding with affordable complexity. However, most existing studies can only learn codes for a given size and rate, typically defined by a fixed network architecture…

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Let (S1,i, S2,i), distributed according to i.i.d p(s1, s2), i = 1, 2, . . . be a memoryless, correlated partial side information sequence. In this work we study channel coding and source coding problems where the partial side information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Avihay Shirazi , Uria Basher , Haim Permuter

We consider a popular family of constrained optimization problems arising in machine learning that involve optimizing a non-decomposable evaluation metric with a certain thresholded form, while constraining another metric of interest.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Abhishek Kumar , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Andrew Cotter

We study lossy compression of a finite statement source generated in a fixed deductive environment. The source symbols are statements in a knowledge base endowed with a shared proof system, and reconstruction fidelity is measured by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jianfeng Xu

This paper considers lossy source coding of $n$-dimensional memoryless sources and shows an explicit approximation to the minimum source coding rate required to sustain the probability of exceeding distortion $d$ no greater than $\epsilon$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Victoria Kostina

New bounds on classification error rates for the error-correcting output code (ECOC) approach in machine learning are presented. These bounds have exponential decay complexity with respect to codeword length and theoretically validate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Hieu D. Nguyen , Mohammed Sarosh Khan , Nicholas Kaegi , Shen-Shyang Ho , Jonathan Moore , Logan Borys , Lucas Lavalva

Discriminative translation models utilizing source context have been shown to help statistical machine translation performance. We propose a novel extension of this work using target context information. Surprisingly, we show that this…

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This paper studies a class of source coding problems that combines elements of the CEO problem with the multiple description problem. In this setting, noisy versions of one remote source are observed by two nodes with encoders (which is…

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We consider the problem of communication over a three user discrete memoryless interference channel ($3-$IC). The current known coding techniques for communicating over an arbitrary $3-$IC are based on message splitting, superposition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Arun Padakandla , Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

In this paper, we study the asymptotic performance of Abelian group codes for the lossy source coding problem for arbitrary discrete (finite alphabet) memoryless sources as well as the channel coding problem for arbitrary discrete (finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

Rate-compatible error-correcting codes (ECCs), which consist of a set of extended codes, are of practical interest in both wireless communications and data storage. In this work, we first study the lower bounds for rate-compatible ECCs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Pengfei Huang , Yi Liu , Xiaojie Zhang , Paul H. Siegel , Erich F. Haratsch

An encoder wishes to minimize the bit rate necessary to guarantee that a decoder is able to calculate a symbol-wise function of a sequence available only at the encoder and a sequence that can be measured only at the decoder. This classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-04-17 Behzad Ahmadi , Osvaldo Simeone

In the field of video processing, advancements in video compression at various temporal and spatial resolutions which are needed in our research to quantify estimation of video quality whereabouts within spatial and temporal domain itself.…

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