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We study the rate-distortion problem for both scalar and vector memoryless heavy-tailed $\alpha$-stable sources ($0 < \alpha < 2$). Using a recently defined notion of ``strength" as a power measure, we derive the rate-distortion function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Karim Ezzeddine , Jihad Fahs , Ibrahim Abou-Faycal

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

The rate-distortion curve captures the fundamental tradeoff between compression length and resolution in lossy data compression. However, it conceals the underlying dynamics of optimal source encodings or test channels. We argue that these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Shlomi Agmon

We study task-oriented lossy compression through the lens of rate-distortion-classification (RDC) representations. The source is Bernoulli, the distortion measure is Hamming, and the binary classification variable is coupled to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nam Nguyen , Thinh Nguyen , Bella Bose

We consider a remote source coding problem subject to a {distortion function}. Contrary to the use of the classical separable distortion criterion, herein we consider the more general, $f$-separable distortion measure and study its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Photios A. Stavrou , Yanina Shkel , Marios Kountouris

I introduce rate-distortion theory for quantum coding, and derive a lower bound, involving the coherent information, on the rate at which qubits must be used to encode a quantum source with a given maximum level of distortion per source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard Barnum

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

New bounds on the rate distortion function of certain non-Gaussian sources, with a proportional-weighted mean-square error (MSE) distortion measure, are given. The growth, g, of the rate distortion function, as a result of changing from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Jacob Binia

We propose leave-out estimators of quadratic forms designed for the study of linear models with unrestricted heteroscedasticity. Applications include analysis of variance and tests of linear restrictions in models with many regressors. An…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-08-28 Patrick Kline , Raffaele Saggio , Mikkel Sølvsten

A great deal of effort has been devoted to reducing the risk of spurious scientific discoveries, from the use of sophisticated validation techniques, to deep statistical methods for controlling the false discovery rate in multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Cynthia Dwork , Vitaly Feldman , Moritz Hardt , Toniann Pitassi , Omer Reingold , Aaron Roth

Many current applications in data science need rich model classes to adequately represent the statistics that may be driving the observations. But rich model classes may be too complex to admit estimators that converge to the truth with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 N. Santhanam , V. Anantharam , W. Szpankowski

This paper studies a variant of the rate-distortion problem motivated by task-oriented semantic communication and distributed learning systems, where $M$ correlated sources are independently encoded for a central decoder. The decoder has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiancheng Tang , Qianqian Yang

Social choice theory offers a wealth of approaches for selecting a candidate on behalf of voters based on their reported preference rankings over options. When voters have underlying utilities for these options, however, using preference…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Luise Ge , Gregory Kehne , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

The distortion-rate function of output-constrained lossy source coding with limited common randomness is analyzed for the special case of squared error distortion measure. An explicit expression is obtained when both source and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Li Xie , Liangyan Li , Jun Chen , Zhongshan Zhang

We consider a rate-distortion version of the quantum state redistribution task, where the error of the decoded state is judged via an additive distortion measure; it thus constitutes a quantum generalisation of the classical Wyner-Ziv…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Zahra Baghali Khanian , Andreas Winter

A receiver wants to compute a function of two correlated sources separately observed by two transmitters. One of the transmitters may send a possibly private message to the other transmitter in a cooperation phase before both transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-08 Milad Sefidgaran , Aslan Tchamkerten

The problem of statistical learning is to construct a predictor of a random variable $Y$ as a function of a related random variable $X$ on the basis of an i.i.d. training sample from the joint distribution of $(X,Y)$. Allowable predictors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Maxim Raginsky

In this work we investigate the behavior of the minimal rate needed in order to guarantee a given probability that the distortion exceeds a prescribed threshold, at some fixed finite quantization block length. We show that the excess coding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-15 Amir Ingber , Yuval Kochman

Quantum random variable, distortion operator are introduced based on canonical operators. As the lower bound of rate distortion, the entanglement information rate distortion is achieved by Gaussian map for Gaussian source. General Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-yu Chen

This paper investigates applications of nonanticipative Rate Distortion Function (RDF) in a) zero-delay Joint Source-Channel Coding (JSCC) design based on average and excess distortion probability, b) in bounding the Optimal Performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Photios A. Stavrou , Christos K. Kourtellaris , C. D. Charalambous