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A two-terminal distributed binary hypothesis testing problem over a noisy channel is studied. The two terminals, called the observer and the decision maker, each has access to $n$ independent and identically distributed samples, denoted by…

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We introduce the Random Subsequence Model, a spin glass model on pairs of random strings $(X,Y) \in \{0,1\}^N \times \{0,1\}^M$ whose partition function counts subsequence embeddings of $Y$ into $X$. We study two variants: the null model,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ryan Jeong , Francisco Pernice

We study a hypothesis testing problem with a privacy constraint over a noisy channel and derive the performance of optimal tests under the Neyman-Pearson criterion. The fundamental limit of interest is the privacy-utility tradeoff (PUT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Lin Zhou , Daming Cao

Error exponents characterize the exponential decay, when increasing message length, of the probability of error of many error-correcting codes. To tackle the long standing problem of computing them exactly, we introduce a general,…

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We consider a problem of simple hypothesis testing using a randomized test via a tunable loss function proposed by Liao \textit{et al}. In this problem, we derive results that correspond to the Neyman--Pearson lemma, the Chernoff--Stein…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Akira Kamatsuka

A central problem in Binary Hypothesis Testing (BHT) is to determine the optimal tradeoff between the Type I error (referred to as false alarm) and Type II (referred to as miss) error. In this context, the exponential rate of convergence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Sebastian Espinosa , Jorge F. Silva , Pablo Piantanida

This paper considers a Fluid Antenna (FA) system comprising a single-antenna transmitter that communicates with a receiver equipped with an FA array with $N$ ports. The transmitter is assumed to deploy any of the modulation schemes:…

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The problem of zero-rate multiterminal hypothesis testing is revisited from the perspective of information-spectrum approach and finite blocklength analysis. A Neyman-Pearson-like test is proposed and its non-asymptotic performance is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Shun Watanabe

The problem of robust hypothesis testing is studied, where under the null and the alternative hypotheses, the data-generating distributions are assumed to be in some uncertainty sets, and the goal is to design a test that performs well…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Zhongchang Sun , Shaofeng Zou

Consider the problem of binary hypothesis testing. Given $Z$ coming from either $\mathbb P^{\otimes m}$ or $\mathbb Q^{\otimes m}$, to decide between the two with small probability of error it is sufficient, and in many cases necessary, to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Patrik Róbert Gerber , Yury Polyanskiy

This paper addresses the detection of a stochastic process in noise from irregular samples. We consider two hypotheses. The \emph{noise only} hypothesis amounts to model the observations as a sample of a i.i.d. Gaussian random variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Walid Hachem , Eric Moulines , Francois Roueff

The matched filter (MF) is one of the most popular and reliable techniques to the detect signals of known structure and amplitude smaller than the level of the contaminating noise. Under the assumption of stationary Gaussian noise, MF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Roberto Vio , Clara Verges , Paola Andreani

Coding and testing schemes for binary hypothesis testing over noisy networks are proposed and their corresponding type-II error exponents are derived. When communication is over a discrete memoryless channel (DMC), our scheme combines…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Michele Wigger

Binary hypothesis testing under the Neyman-Pearson formalism is a statistical inference framework for distinguishing data generated by two different source distributions. Privacy restrictions may require the curator of the data or the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Flavio P. Calmon

We revisit the outlier hypothesis testing framework of Li \emph{et al.} (TIT 2014) and derive fundamental limits for the optimal test. In outlier hypothesis testing, one is given multiple observed sequences, where most sequences are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Lin Zhou , Yun Wei , Alfred Hero

Decoders that provide an estimate of the probability of a logical failure conditioned on the error syndrome ("soft-output decoders") can reduce the overhead cost of fault-tolerant quantum memory and computation. In this work, we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Nadine Meister , Christopher A. Pattison , John Preskill

We prove the strong converse for the $N$-source Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC). In particular, we show that any rate tuple that can be supported by a sequence of codes with asymptotic average error probability less than one must lie…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Silas L. Fong , Vincent Y. F. Tan

When information is to be transmitted over an unknown, possibly unreliable channel, an erasure option at the decoder is desirable. Using constant-composition random codes, we propose a generalization of Csiszar and Korner's Maximum Mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pierre Moulin

In this paper, we analyze the asymptotics of the normalized remaining uncertainty of a source when a compressed or hashed version of it and correlated side-information is observed. For this system, commonly known as Slepian-Wolf source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Vincent Y. F. Tan , Masahito Hayashi

We identify the critical deviation scale governing Bayesian evidence accumulation in regular parametric testing. Under integrated Bayes risk with zero-one loss, the risk-optimal rejection boundary lies in a moderate deviation regime, with a…

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