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Blau and Michaeli recently introduced a novel concept for inverse problems of signal processing, that is, the perception-distortion tradeoff. We introduce their tradeoff into the rate distortion theory of variable-length lossy source coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Ryutaroh Matsumoto

By extracting task-relevant information while maximally compressing the input, the information bottleneck (IB) principle has provided a guideline for learning effective and robust representations of the target inference. However, extending…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Yuhan Wang , Youlong Wu , Shuai Ma , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Lossy compression algorithms are typically designed and analyzed through the lens of Shannon's rate-distortion theory, where the goal is to achieve the lowest possible distortion (e.g., low MSE or high SSIM) at any given bit rate. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Yochai Blau , Tomer Michaeli

A new source model, which consists of an intrinsic state part and an extrinsic observation part, is proposed and its information-theoretic characterization, namely its rate-distortion function, is defined and analyzed. Such a source model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Jiakun Liu , Shuo Shao , Wenyi Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

It is known that modeling an information source via a symbolic dynamical system evolving over the unit interval, leads to a natural lossless compression scheme attaining the entropy rate of the source, under general conditions. We extend…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-21 Ofer Shayevitz

A rate-distortion problem motivated by the consideration of semantic information is formulated and solved. The starting point is to model an information source as a pair consisting of an intrinsic state which is not observable,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jiakun Liu , Wenyi Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

A new Lossy Causal Temporal Convolutional Neural Network Autoencoder for anomaly detection is proposed in this work. Our framework uses a rate-distortion loss and an entropy bottleneck to learn a compressed latent representation for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Christopher P. Ley , Jorge F. Silva

Lossy image coding is the art of computing that is principally bounded by the image's rate-distortion function. This bound, though never accurately characterized, has been approached practically via deep learning technologies in recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Haotian Zhang , Dong Liu

We propose computationally efficient encoders and decoders for lossy compression using a Sparse Regression Code. The codebook is defined by a design matrix and codewords are structured linear combinations of columns of this matrix. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Ramji Venkataramanan , Tuhin Sarkar , Sekhar Tatikonda

This work is devoted to practical joint source channel coding. Although the proposed approach has more general scope, for the sake of clarity we focus on a specific application example, namely, the transmission of digital images over noisy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maria Fresia , Giuseppe Caire

Joint source-channel coding is a compelling paradigm when low-latency and low-complexity communication is required. This work proposes a theoretical framework that integrates classification and anomaly detection within the conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Andriy Enttsel , Weichen Wang , Mauro Mangia , Riccardo Rovatti , Deniz Gündüz

In this letter, we formulate a compositional distributed learning framework for multi-view perception by leveraging the maximal coding rate reduction principle combined with subspace basis fusion. In the proposed algorithm, each agent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Zhuojun Tian , Mehdi Bennis

Organisms have to keep track of the information in the environment that is relevant for adaptive behaviour. Transmitting information in an economical and efficient way becomes crucial for limited-resourced agents living in high-dimensional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Miguel de Llanza Varona , Christopher L. Buckley , Beren Millidge

We consider a problem of coding for computing, where the decoder wishes to estimate a function of its local message and the source message at the encoder within a given distortion. We show that the rate-distortion function can be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Deheng Yuan , Tao Guo , Bo Bai , Wei Han

Perceptual losses have emerged as powerful tools for training networks to enhance Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT) images, offering an alternative to traditional pixel-wise losses such as Mean Squared Error, which often lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Gabriel A. Viana , Luis F. Alves Pereira , Tsang Ing Ren , George D. C. Cavalcanti , Jan Sijbers

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

In image compression, with recent advances in generative modeling, the existence of a trade-off between the rate and the perceptual quality has been brought to light, where the perception is measured by the closeness of the output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yassine Hamdi , Deniz Gündüz

We consider lossy source coding when side information affecting the distortion measure may be available at the encoder, decoder, both, or neither. For example, such distortion side information can model reliabilities for noisy measurements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Emin Martinian , Gregory W. Wornell , Ram Zamir

We revisit the Gray-Wyner lossy source coding problem and derive the first-order asymptotic optimal rate-distortion-perception region when additional perception constraints are imposed on reproduced source sequences. The optimal trade-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yu Yang , Yingxin Zhang , Weijie Yuan , Lin Zhou

In the classical source coding problem, the compressed source is reconstructed at the decoder with respect to some distortion metric. Motivated by settings in which we are interested in more than simply reconstructing the compressed source,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Oğuzhan Kubilay Ülger , Elza Erkip