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Deep learning has enabled significant advances in feedback-based channel coding, yet existing learned schemes remain fundamentally limited: they employ fixed block lengths, suffer degraded performance at high rates, and cannot fully exploit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu Ding , Yulin Shao

Sparse superimposed coding (SSC) has emerged as a promising technique for short-packet transmission in ultra-reliable low-latency communication scenarios. However, conventional SSC schemes often suffer from high encoding and decoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Yanfeng Zhang , Xi'an Fan , Xu Zhu , Jinkai Zheng , Hui Liang , Weiwei Yang , Tom H. Luan

While much research effort has been dedicated to scaling up sparse Gaussian process (GP) models based on inducing variables for big data, little attention is afforded to the other less explored class of low-rank GP approximations that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-21 Quang Minh Hoang , Trong Nghia Hoang , Kian Hsiang Low

For the additive Gaussian noise channel with average codeword power constraint, sparse superposition codes and adaptive successive decoding is developed. Codewords are linear combinations of subsets of vectors, with the message indexed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-22 Andrew R Barron , Antony Joseph

Amortized variational inference in latent-variable forecasters creates a deployment gap: the test-time encoder approximates a training-time optimization-refined latent, but without access to future targets. This gap introduces unnecessary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Abhijit Gupta

Adapting billion-parameter language models to a downstream task is still costly, even with parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). We re-cast task adaptation as output-distribution alignment: the objective is to steer the output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Senkang Hu , Xudong Han , Jinqi Jiang , Yihang Tao , Zihan Fang , Yong Dai , Sam Tak Wu Kwong , Yuguang Fang

We study the approximate message-passing decoder for sparse superposition coding on the additive white Gaussian noise channel and extend our preliminary work [1]. We use heuristic statistical-physics-based tools such as the cavity and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Jean Barbier , Florent Krzakala

We study a new class of codes for Gaussian multi-terminal source and channel coding. These codes are designed using the statistical framework of high-dimensional linear regression and are called Sparse Superposition or Sparse Regression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-12-11 Ramji Venkataramanan , Sekhar Tatikonda

For the additive white Gaussian noise channel with average codeword power constraint, new coding methods are devised in which the codewords are sparse superpositions, that is, linear combinations of subsets of vectors from a given design,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-21 Andrew R. Barron , Antony Joseph

This paper presents a new VLSI friendly framework for scalable video coding based on Compressed Sensing (CS). It achieves scalability through 3-Dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform (3-D DWT) and better compression ratio by exploiting the…

This paper introduces a framework for super-resolution of scalable video based on compressive sensing and sparse representation of residual frames in reconnaissance and surveillance applications. We exploit efficient compressive sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Mohammad Hossein Moghaddam , Mohammad Javad Azizipour , Saeed Vahidian , Besma Smida

We consider a variable-length source coding problem subject to local decodability constraints. In particular, we investigate the blocklength scaling behavior attainable by encodings of $r$-sparse binary sequences, under the constraint that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Ashwin Pananjady , Thomas A. Courtade

We propose a numerically efficient method for evaluating the random-coding union bound with parameter $s$ on the error probability achievable in the finite-blocklength regime by a pilot-assisted transmission scheme employing Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 A. Oguz Kislal , Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik Ström

This letter introduces a novel channel coding design framework for short-length codewords that permits balancing the tradeoff between the bit error rate floor and waterfall region by modifying a single real-valued parameter. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mikel Hernaez , Pedro M. crespo , Javier Del Ser

Recently, the sparse vector code (SVC) is emerging as a promising solution for short-packet transmission in massive machine type communication (mMTC) as well as ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). In the SVC process, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Linjie Yang , Pingzhi Fan

We present the framework of slowly varying regression under sparsity, allowing sparse regression models to exhibit slow and sparse variations. The problem of parameter estimation is formulated as a mixed-integer optimization problem. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Dimitris Bertsimas , Vassilis Digalakis , Michael Linghzi Li , Omar Skali Lami

We study variable-length feedback (VLF) codes with noiseless feedback for discrete memoryless channels. We present a novel non-asymptotic bound, which analyzes the average error probability and average decoding time of our modified…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Recep Can Yavas , Vincent Y. F. Tan

Feedback holds a pivotal role in practical communication schemes, even though it does not enhance channel capacity. Its main attribute includes adaptability in transmission that allows for a higher rate of convergence of the error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Ioannis Papoutsidakis , Robert J. Piechocki , Angela Doufexi

Sparse superposition codes were recently introduced by Barron and Joseph for reliable communication over the AWGN channel at rates approaching the channel capacity. The codebook is defined in terms of a Gaussian design matrix, and codewords…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Cynthia Rush , Adam Greig , Ramji Venkataramanan

Sparse coding algorithms are about finding a linear basis in which signals can be represented by a small number of active (non-zero) coefficients. Such coding has many applications in science and engineering and is believed to play an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-14 András Lőrincz , Zsolt Palotai , Gábor Szirtes