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We investigate lossy compression (source coding) of data in the form of permutations. This problem has direct applications in the storage of ordinal data or rankings, and in the analysis of sorting algorithms. We analyze the rate-distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Da Wang , Arya Mazumdar , Gregory Wornell

In this paper we consider the lossy compression of a binary symmetric source. We present a scheme that provides a low complexity lossy compressor with near optimal empirical performance. The proposed scheme is based on b-reduced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Alfredo Braunstein , Farbod Kayhan , Riccardo Zecchina

Using a mild variant of polar codes we design linear compression schemes compressing Hidden Markov sources (where the source is a Markov chain, but whose state is not necessarily observable from its output), and to decode from Hidden Markov…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Venkatesan Guruswami , Preetum Nakkiran , Madhu Sudan

It is well-known in the field of lossless data compression that probabilistic next-symbol prediction can be used to compress sequences of symbols. Deep neural networks are able to capture rich dependencies in data, offering a powerful means…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aviv Adler , Jennifer Tang

In this paper we discuss a novel data compression technique for binary symmetric sources based on the cavity method over a Galois Field of order q (GF(q)). We present a scheme of low complexity and near optimal empirical performance. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Alfredo Braunstein , Farbod Kayhan , Riccardo Zecchina

Dictionary learning methods continue to gain popularity for the solution of challenging inverse problems. In the dictionary learning approach, the computational forward model is replaced by a large dictionary of possible outcomes, and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-06 Alberto Bocchinfuso , Daniela Calvetti , Erkki Somersalo

A low-density parity-check (LDPC) code is a linear block code described by a sparse parity-check matrix, which can be efficiently represented by a bipartite Tanner graph. The standard iterative decoding algorithm, known as belief…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-17 Sachini Jayasooriya , Sarah J. Johnson , Lawrence Ong , Regina Berretta

This survey articles focuses on emerging connections between the fields of machine learning and data compression. While fundamental limits of classical (lossy) data compression are established using rate-distortion theory, the connections…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jun Chen , Yong Fang , Ashish Khisti , Ayfer Ozgur , Nir Shlezinger , Chao Tian

We consider the problem of optimally compressing and caching data across a communication network. Given the data generated at edge nodes and a routing path, our goal is to determine the optimal data compression ratios and caching decisions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Jian Li , Faheem Zafari , Don Towsley , Kin K. Leung , Ananthram Swami

In this paper, we take a unified approach for network information theory and prove a coding theorem, which can recover most of the achievability results in network information theory that are based on random coding. The final single-letter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Si-Hyeon Lee , Sae-Young Chung

Resource allocation is a fundamental problem in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems, in which devices work together under limited communication bandwidth to complete diverse tasks. This paper proposes a communication-efficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yuzhu Duan , Ziwen Yang , Xiaoming Duan , Shanying Zhu

Classical rate-distortion theory requires knowledge of an elusive source distribution. Instead, we analyze rate-distortion properties of individual objects using the recently developed algorithmic rate-distortion theory. The latter is based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Steven de Rooij , Paul Vitanyi

The high-fidelity storage of quantum information is crucial for quantum computation and communication. Many experimental platforms for these applications exhibit highly biased noise, with good resilience to spin depolarisation undermined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Yannick Seis , Benjamin J. Brown , Anders S. Sørensen , Joseph F. Goodwin

The statistical physics properties of low-density parity-check codes for the binary symmetric channel are investigated as a spin glass problem with multi-spin interactions and quenched random fields by the cavity method. By evaluating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-20 Haiping Huang

Perception-aware lossy source coding has attracted significant recent interest. It augments the classical distortion criterion with an explicit perception constraint, thereby enabling more refined control over fidelity and perceptual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ali Hussein , Jun Chen , Chao Tian , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We study a new encoding scheme for lossy source compression based on spatially coupled low-density generator-matrix codes. We develop a belief-propagation guided-decimation algorithm, and show that this algorithm allows to approach the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-23 Vahid Aref , Nicolas Macris , Rudiger Urbanke , Marc Vuffray

Graphs can be used to represent a wide variety of data belonging to different domains. Graphs can capture the relationship among data in an efficient way, and have been widely used. In recent times, with the advent of Big Data, there has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Rushabh Jitendrakumar Shah

Rate-distortion theory provides bounds for compressing data produced by an information source to a specified encoding rate that is strictly less than the source's entropy. This necessarily entails some loss, or distortion, between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Sina Salek , Daniela Cadamuro , Philipp Kammerlander , Karoline Wiesner

Quantum information theory studies the fundamental limits that physical laws impose on information processing tasks such as data compression and data transmission on noisy channels. This thesis presents general techniques that allow one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-13 Frédéric Dupuis

In this paper, designs and analyses of compressive recognition systems are discussed, and also a method of establishing a dual connection between designs of good communication codes and designs of recognition systems is presented. Pattern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-24 Po-Hsiang Lai , Joseph A. O'Sullivan