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This paper investigates the problem of source-channel coding for secure transmission with arbitrarily correlated side informations at both receivers. This scenario consists of an encoder (referred to as Alice) that wishes to compress a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Joffrey Villard , Pablo Piantanida , Shlomo Shamai

Entropy quantifies the number of bits required to store objects under certain given assumptions. While this is a well established concept for strings, in the context of tries the state-of-the-art regarding entropies is less developed. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Lorenzo Carfagna , Carlo Tosoni

Our capacity to process information depends on the computational power at our disposal. Information theory captures our ability to distinguish states or communicate messages when it is unconstrained with unrivaled beauty and elegance. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Johannes Jakob Meyer , Asad Raza , Jacopo Rizzo , Lorenzo Leone , Sofiene Jerbi , Jens Eisert

We show that linear codes combined with rejection sampling can yield a capacity-achieving scheme for simulating additive exchangeable noise channels. Specifically, our scheme achieves an amount of communication within $\log e + 1$ bits from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianguo Zhao , Cheuk Ting Li

B. Schumacher and M. Westmoreland have established a quantum analog of a well-known classical information theory result on a role of relative entropy as a measure of non-optimality in (classical) data compression. In this paper, we provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-08 Alexei Kaltchenko

The integration of quantum communication functions often requires dedicated opto-electronic components that do not bode well with the technology roadmaps of telecom systems. We investigate the capability of commercial coherent transceiver…

We introduce a novel generalization of entropy and conditional entropy from which most definitions from the literature can be derived as particular cases. Within this general framework, we investigate the problem of designing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 MHR Khouzani , Pasquale Malacaria

Entropy coding is widely used in typical learned image compression (LIC) that converts latents into a compact bitstream. However, entropy coding is typically sequential and becomes the coding latency bottleneck. To overcome it, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Hao Cao , Wenqi Guo , Zhijin Qin , Jungong Han

This letter considers a network comprising a transmitter, which employs random linear network coding to encode a message, a legitimate receiver, which can recover the message if it gathers a sufficient number of linearly independent coded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Amjad Saeed Khan , Andrea Tassi , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

It is known that given the real sum of two independent uniformly distributed lattice points from the same nested lattice codebook, the eavesdropper can obtain at most 1 bit of information per channel regarding the value of one of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-15 Xiang He , Aylin Yener

The minimum average number of bits need to describe a random variable is its entropy, assuming knowledge of the underlying statistics On the other hand, universal compression supposes that the distribution of the random variable, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Maryam Hosseini , Narayana Santhanam

Rejection sampling is a popular method used to generate numbers that follow some given distribution. We study the use of this method to generate random numbers in the unit interval from increasing probability density functions. We focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Louis-Roy Langevin , Alex Waese-Perlman

We give a short proof that the coherent information is an achievable rate for the transmission of quantum information through a noisy quantum channel. Our method is to produce random codes by performing a unitarily covariant projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Patrick Hayden , Michal Horodecki , Andreas Winter , Jon Yard

This paper considers the joint compression of a pair of correlated sources, where the encoder is allowed to access only one of the sources. The objective is to recover both sources under separate distortion constraints for each source while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Huiyuan Yang , Yuxuan Shi , Shuo Shao , Xiaojun Yuan

We introduce a novel notion of invariance feedback entropy to quantify the state information that is required by any controller that enforces a given subset of the state space to be invariant. We establish a number of elementary properties,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Mahendra Singh Tomar , Matthias Rungger , Majid Zamani

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

Entropy rate of sequential data-streams naturally quantifies the complexity of the generative process. Thus entropy rate fluctuations could be used as a tool to recognize dynamical perturbations in signal sources, and could potentially be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Ishanu Chattopadhyay , Hod Lipson

Integer-forcing source coding has been proposed as a low-complexity method for compression of distributed correlated Gaussian sources. In this scheme, each encoder quantizes its observation using the same fine lattice and reduces the result…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Elad Domanovitz , Uri Erez

We leverage the Gibbs inequality and its natural generalization to R\'enyi entropies to derive closed-form parametric expressions of the optimal lower bounds of $\rho$th-order guessing entropy (guessing moment) of a secret taking values on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Julien Béguinot , Olivier Rioul

The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their $n$-bit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti