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The single-letter characterisation of the entanglement-assisted capacity of a quantum channel is one of the seminal results of quantum information theory. In this paper, we consider a modified communication scenario in which the receiver is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Kaiyuan Ji , Bartosz Regula , Mark M. Wilde

We study the maximum likelihood problem for the blind estimation of massive mmWave MIMO channels while taking into account their underlying sparse structure, the temporal shifts across antennas in the broadband regime, and ultimately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst

We provide a maximum likelihood formulation for the blind estimation of massive mmWave MIMO channels while taking into account their underlying sparse structure. The main advantage of this approach is the fact that the overhead due to pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-02 Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Maximum likelihood estimation is effective for identifying dynamical systems, but applying it to large networks becomes computationally prohibitive. This paper introduces a maximum likelihood estimation method that enables identification of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 João Victor Galvão da Mata , Anders Hansson , Martin S. Andersen

Multivariate pattern analyses approaches in neuroimaging are fundamentally concerned with investigating the quantity and type of information processed by various regions of the human brain; typically, estimates of classification accuracy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-11 Charles Y. Zheng , Yuval Benjamini

Motivated by a greedy approach for generating {\it{information stable}} processes, we prove a universal maximum likelihood (ML) upper bound on the capacities of discrete information stable channels, including the binary erasure channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Tongxin Li

The rate-distortion (RD) theory is one of the key concepts in information theory, providing theoretical limits for compression performance and guiding the source coding design, with both theoretical and practical significance. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Shitong Wu , Sicheng Xu , Lingyi Chen , Huihui Wu , Wenyi Zhang

Estimating mutual information (MI) from samples is a fundamental problem in statistics, machine learning, and data analysis. Recently it was shown that a popular class of non-parametric MI estimators perform very poorly for strongly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Shuyang Gao , Greg Ver Steeg , Aram Galstyan

The memoryless noncoherent single-input single-output (SISO) Rayleigh-fading channel is considered. Closed-form expressions for the mutual information between the output and the input of this channel when the input magnitude distribution is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Sebastien de la Kethulle de Ryhove , Ninoslav Marina , Geir E. Oien

The existence and consistency of a maximum likelihood estimator for the joint probability distribution of random parameters in discrete-time abstract parabolic systems are established by taking a nonparametric approach in the context of a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-04-26 Lernik Asserian , Susan E. Luczak , I. G. Rosen

We consider the scenario of classical communication over a finite-dimensional quantum channel with memory using a separable-state input ensemble and local output measurements. We propose algorithms for estimating the information rate of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Michael X. Cao , Pascal O. Vontobel

The problem of distributed estimation of a parametric physical field is stated as a maximum likelihood estimation problem. Sensor observations are distorted by additive white Gaussian noise. Prior to data transmission, each sensor quantizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-21 Natalia A. Schmid , Marwan Alkhweldi , Matthew C. Valenti

This study considers multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) through the information gain of the Pareto-frontier. To calculate the information gain, a predictive distribution conditioned on the Pareto-frontier plays a key role, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Masanori Ishikura , Masayuki Karasuyama

We propose a gradient-based framework for optimizing parametric nonlinear Gaussian channels via mutual information maximization. Leveraging the score-to-Fisher bridge (SFB) methodology, we derive a computationally tractable formula for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tadashi Wadayama

Several recent works in communication systems have proposed to leverage the power of neural networks in the design of encoders and decoders. In this approach, these blocks can be tailored to maximize the transmission rate based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Sina Molavipour , Germán Bassi , Mikael Skoglund

The problem of transmitting a parameter value over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel is considered, where, in addition to the transmitter and the receiver, there is a helper that observes the noise non-causally and provides a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anatoly Khina , Neri Merhav

In fiber-optic communications, evaluation of mutual information (MI) is still an open issue due to the unavailability of an exact and mathematically tractable channel model. Traditionally, lower bounds on MI are computed by approximating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Naga V. Irukulapati , Marco Secondini , Erik Agrell , Pontus Johannisson , Henk Wymeersch

The posterior matching scheme, for feedback encoding of a message point lying on the unit interval over memoryless channels, maximizes mutual information for an arbitrary number of channel uses. However, it in general does not always…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Diego A. Mesa , Rui Ma , Siva K. Gorantla , Todd P. Coleman

We consider the problem of jointly optimum modulation and estimation of a real-valued random parameter, conveyed over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel, where the performance metric is the large deviations behavior of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Neri Merhav

As a class of state-dependent channels, Markov channels have been long studied in information theory for characterizing the feedback capacity and error exponent. This paper studies a more general variant of such channels where the state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohsen Heidari , Achilleas Anastasopoulos , S. Sandeep Pradhan