Variable-length compression allowing errors
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Kostina, Victoria
Polyanskiy, Yury
Verdu, Sergio
Date Issued
June 2014
Journal
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Kostina, Victoria, Yury Polyanskiy, and Sergio Verdu. “Variable-Length Compression Allowing Errors.” 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (June 2014).
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Abstract
This paper studies the fundamental limits of the minimum average length of variable-length compression when a nonzero error probability ε is tolerated. We give non-asymptotic bounds on the minimum average length in terms of Erokhin's rate-distortion function and we use those bounds to obtain a Gaussian approximation on the speed of approach to the limit which is quite accurate for all but small blocklengths: equation where Q[superscript -1] (·) is the functional inverse of the Q-function and V (S) is the source dispersion. A nonzero error probability thus not only reduces the asymptotically achievable rate by a factor of 1-ε, but also this asymptotic limit is approached from below, i.e. a larger source dispersion and shorter blocklengths are beneficial. Further, we show that variable-length lossy compression under excess distortion constraint also exhibits similar properties.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875320
