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We study how the Shannon entropy of sequences produced by an information source converges to the source's entropy rate. We synthesize several phenomenological approaches to applying information theoretic measures of randomness and memory to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 James P. Crutchfield , David P. Feldman

In lossy compression, Blau and Michaeli [5] introduced the information rate-distortion-perception (RDP) function, extending traditional rate-distortion theory by incorporating perceptual quality. More recently, this framework was expanded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

We prove the existence of codebooks for d-semifaithful lossy compression that are simultaneously universal with respect to both the class of finite-alphabet memoryless sources and the class of all bounded additive distortion measures. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Neri Merhav

In some rate-distortion-type problems, the required fidelity of information is affected by past actions. As a result, the distortion function depends not only on the instantaneous distortion between a source symbol and its representation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Hamidreza Abin , Amin Gohari , Andrew W. Eckford

Semantic communication stands out as a highly promising avenue for future developments in communications. Theoretically, source compression coding based on semantics can achieve lower rates than Shannon entropy. This paper introduces a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jin Xu , Kai Niu , Zijian Liang , Ping Zhang

We prove achievability of the recently characterized quadratic Gaussian rate-distortion function (RDF) subject to the constraint that the distortion is uncorrelated to the source. This result is based on shaped dithered lattice quantization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-07-24 Milan S. Derpich , Jan Ostergaard , Daniel E. Quevedo

Motivated by questions in lossy data compression and by theoretical considerations, we examine the problem of estimating the rate-distortion function of an unknown (not necessarily discrete-valued) source from empirical data. Our focus is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-18 M. T. Harrison , I. Kontoyiannis

It is well known that separation between lossy source coding and channel coding is asymptotically optimal under classical additive distortion measures. Recently, coding under a new class of quality considerations, often referred to as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Chao Tian , Jun Chen , Krishna Narayanan

The formalism of partial information decomposition provides independent or non-overlapping components constituting total information content provided by a set of source variables about the target variable. These components are recognised as…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-09 Ayan Biswas , Suman K Banik

The rate-distortion saddle-point problem considered by Lapidoth (1997) consists in finding the minimum rate to compress an arbitrary ergodic source when one is constrained to use a random Gaussian codebook and minimum (Euclidean) distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Lin Zhou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Mehul Motani

The generalization of Shannon's theory to include messages with given autocorrelations is presented. The analytical calculation of the channel capacity is based on the transfer matrix method of the effective 1D Hamiltonian. This bridge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ido Kanter , Hanan Rosemarin

We provide a novel upper-bound on Witsenhausen's rate, the rate required in the zero-error analogue of the Slepian-Wolf problem; our bound is given in terms of a new information-theoretic functional defined on a certain graph. We then use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-25 Benjamin G. Kelly , Aaron B. Wagner

This paper studies a variant of the rate-distortion problem motivated by task-oriented semantic communication and distributed learning systems, where $M$ correlated sources are independently encoded for a central decoder. The decoder has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang

We consider transmission of discrete memoryless sources (DMSes) across discrete memoryless channels (DMCs) using variable-length lossy source-channel codes with feedback. The reliability function (optimum error exponent) is shown to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Lan V. Truong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Consider a discrete memoryless multiple source with $m$ components of which $k \leq m$ possibly different sources are sampled at each time instant and jointly compressed in order to reconstruct all the $m$ sources under a given distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Vinay Praneeth Boda , Prakash Narayan

This paper investigates a joint source-channel secrecy problem for the Shannon cipher broadcast system. We suppose list secrecy is applied, i.e., a wiretapper is allowed to produce a list of reconstruction sequences and the secrecy is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Lei Yu , Houqiang Li , Weiping Li

The Shannon lower bound has been the subject of several important contributions by Berger. This paper surveys Shannon bounds on rate-distortion problems under mean-squared error distortion with a particular emphasis on Berger's techniques.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Michael Gastpar , Erixhen Sula

In this paper we discuss the processes in the Shannon cipher system with discrete memoryless source and a guessing wiretapper. The wiretapper observes a cryptogram of $N$-vector of ciphered messages in the public channel and tries to guess…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Evgueni Haroutunian

We consider the lossy quantum source coding problem where the task is to compress a given quantum source below its von Neumann entropy. Inspired by the duality connections between the rate-distortion and channel coding problems in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-02 Touheed Anwar Atif , Mohammad Aamir Sohail , S. Sandeep Pradhan

To render a sequence testable, namely capable of identifying and detecting errors, it is necessary to apply a transformation that increases its length by introducing statistical dependence among symbols, as commonly exemplified by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Aida Koch , Alix Petit