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We consider finite blocklength lossy compression of information sources whose components are independent but non-identically distributed. Crucially, Gaussian sources with memory and quadratic distortion can be cast in this form. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Eyyup Tasci , Victoria Kostina

The problem of variable-rate lossless data compression is considered, for codes with and without prefix constraints. Sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable compression rate of memoryless sources, when the excess-rate probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andreas Theocharous , Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Locally decodable channel codes form a special class of error-correcting codes with the property that the decoder is able to reconstruct any bit of the input message from querying only a few bits of a noisy codeword. It is well known that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Ali Makhdoumi , Shao-Lun Huang , Muriel Medard , Yury Polyanskiy

This paper shows the strong converse and the dispersion of memoryless channels with cost constraints and performs refined analysis of the third order term in the asymptotic expansion of the maximum achievable channel coding rate, showing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

We study lossy source coding under a distortion measure defined by the negative log-likelihood induced by a prescribed conditional distribution $P_{X|U}$. This \emph{log-likelihood distortion} models compression settings in which the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Anuj Kumar Yadav , Dan Song , Yanina Shkel , Ayfer Özgür

Consider a generalized multiterminal source coding system, where $\ell\choose m$ encoders, each observing a distinct size-$m$ subset of $\ell$ ($\ell\geq 2$) zero-mean unit-variance symmetrically correlated Gaussian sources with correlation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Jun Chen , Li Xie , Yameng Chang , Jia Wang , Yizhong Wang

A new converse bound is presented for the two-user multiple-access channel under the average probability of error constraint. This bound shows that for most channels of interest, the second-order coding rate -- that is, the difference…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Oliver Kosut

We draw a certain analogy between the classical information-theoretic problem of lossy data compression (source coding) of memoryless information sources and the statistical mechanical behavior of a certain model of a chain of connected…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Neri Merhav

This paper finds new tight finite-blocklength bounds for the best achievable lossy joint source-channel code rate, and demonstrates that joint source-channel code design brings considerable performance advantage over a separate one in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Victoria Kostina , Sergio Verdú

We consider universal variable-to-fixed length compression of memoryless sources with a fidelity criterion. We design a dictionary codebook over the reproduction alphabet which is used to parse the source stream. Once a source subsequence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Nematollah Iri

Optimal zero-delay coding (quantization) of $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued linearly generated Markov sources is studied under quadratic distortion. The structure and existence of deterministic and stationary coding policies that are optimal for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Meysam Ghomi , Tamas Linder , Serdar Yuksel

The problem of joint detection and lossless source coding is considered. We derive asymptotically optimal decision rules for deciding whether or not a sequence of observations has emerged from a desired information source, and to compress…

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

Many scientific codes and instruments generate large amounts of floating-point data at high rates that must be compressed before they can be stored. Typically, only lossy compression algorithms deliver high-enough compression ratios.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Alex Fallin , Nathaniel Gorski , Tripti Agarwal , Bei Wang , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan , Martin Burtscher

We consider the problem of joint universal variable-rate lossy coding and identification for parametric classes of stationary $\beta$-mixing sources with general (Polish) alphabets. Compression performance is measured in terms of…

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

A distributed lossy compression network with $L$ encoders and a decoder is considered. Each encoder observes a source and sends a compressed version to the decoder. The decoder produces a joint reconstruction of target signals with the mean…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Siyao Zhou , Sadaf Salehkalaibar , Jingjing Qian , Jun Chen , Wuxian Shi , Yiqun Ge , Wen Tong

An effective 'on-the-fly' mechanism for stochastic lossy coding of Markov sources using string matching techniques is proposed in this paper. Earlier work has shown that the rate-distortion bound can be asymptotically achieved by a 'natural…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ahmed Elshafiy , Kenneth Rose

The random access problem for compressed strings is to build a data structure that efficiently supports accessing the character in position $i$ of a string given in compressed form. Given a grammar of size $n$ compressing a string of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Patrick Hagge Cording

We study the problem of efficient compression of a stochastic source of probability distributions. It can be viewed as a generalization of Shannon's source coding problem. It has relation to the theory of common randomness, as well as to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Andreas Winter

Universal fixed-to-variable lossless source coding for memoryless sources is studied in the finite blocklength and higher-order asymptotics regimes. Optimal third-order coding rates are derived for general fixed-to-variable codes and for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Past works on remote lossy source coding studied the rate under average distortion and the error exponent of excess distortion probability. In this work, we look into how fast the excess distortion probability converges to 1 at small rates,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Han Wu , Hamdi Joudeh