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most citedCompressing Images by Encoding Their Latent Representations with Relative Entropy Coding

18 citations · 45 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CR2026

Scalable Differentially Private Data Compression via Diffusion and Stochastic Codes

Gergely Flamich, Oykü Sıla Güner, Yanxiao Liu +1

The ever-increasing collection of personal data has created mounting pressure to develop technologies that protect sensitive aspects of individual identity. Differential privacy (D…

stat.CO2026

Multi-Marginal Couplings for Metropolis-Hastings

Buu Phan, Gergely Flamich, Ashish Khisti +1

Convergence diagnosis for Markov chain Monte Carlo is a matter of fundamental importance in computational statistics: it determines the resources allocated to a particular sampling…

cs.IT2026

Singular Relative Entropy Coding with Bits-Back Rejection Sampling

Gergely Flamich, Spencer Hill

A relative entropy code for a source is a stochastic code that encodes random samples from a prescribed using as few bits as possible. A generalisation…

cs.IT2026

Rejection Sampling is Optimal for Relative Entropy Coding

Spencer Hill, Fady Alajaji, Tamás Linder +1

In relative entropy coding, a sender aims to design a stochastic code such that, on input , the receiver can generate a sample . It is a standard r…

cs.IT2026

Data Compression with Stochastic Codes

Gergely Flamich, Deniz Gündüz

Machine learning has had a major impact on data compression over the last decade and opened up many new theoretical and applied fields of inquiry. This paper describes one such dir…

cs.IT2025

Data Compression with Relative Entropy Coding

Gergely Flamich

Over the last few years, machine learning unlocked previously infeasible features for compression, such as providing guarantees for users' privacy or tailoring compression to speci…

cs.CL2025

You Cannot Feed Two Birds with One Score: the Accuracy-Naturalness Tradeoff in Translation

Gergely Flamich, David Vilar, Jan-Thorsten Peter +1

The goal of translation, be it by human or by machine, is, given some text in a source language, to produce text in a target language that simultaneously 1) preserves the meaning o…

cs.IT2025

The Redundancy of Non-Singular Channel Simulation

Gergely Flamich, Sharang M. Sriramu, Aaron B. Wagner

Channel simulation is an alternative to quantization and entropy coding for performing lossy source coding. Recently, channel simulation has gained significant traction in both the…

cs.IT2024

Getting Free Bits Back from Rotational Symmetries in LLMs

Jiajun He, Gergely Flamich, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Current methods for compressing neural network weights, such as decomposition, pruning, quantization, and channel simulation, often overlook the inherent symmetries within these ne…

cs.IT2024

Some Notes on the Sample Complexity of Approximate Channel Simulation

Gergely Flamich, Lennie Wells

Channel simulation algorithms can efficiently encode random samples from a prescribed target distribution and find applications in machine learning-based lossy data compression…

cs.IT2024

Accelerating Relative Entropy Coding with Space Partitioning

Jiajun He, Gergely Flamich, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Relative entropy coding (REC) algorithms encode a random sample following a target distribution , using a coding distribution shared between the sender and receiver. Sadly,…

cs.IT2024

On Channel Simulation with Causal Rejection Samplers

Daniel Goc, Gergely Flamich

One-shot channel simulation has recently emerged as a promising alternative to quantization and entropy coding in machine-learning-based lossy data compression schemes. However, wh…

stat.ML2023

Estimating optimal PAC-Bayes bounds with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Szilvia Ujváry, Gergely Flamich, Vincent Fortuin +1

An important yet underexplored question in the PAC-Bayes literature is how much tightness we lose by restricting the posterior family to factorized Gaussian distributions when opti…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Faster Relative Entropy Coding with Greedy Rejection Coding

Gergely Flamich, Stratis Markou, Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato

Relative entropy coding (REC) algorithms encode a sample from a target distribution using a proposal distribution using as few bits as possible. Unlike entropy coding, REC…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

RECOMBINER: Robust and Enhanced Compression with Bayesian Implicit Neural Representations

Jiajun He, Gergely Flamich, Zongyu Guo +1

COMpression with Bayesian Implicit NEural Representations (COMBINER) is a recent data compression method that addresses a key inefficiency of previous Implicit Neural Representatio…

cs.LG2023

Minimal Random Code Learning with Mean-KL Parameterization

Jihao Andreas Lin, Gergely Flamich, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

This paper studies the qualitative behavior and robustness of two variants of Minimal Random Code Learning (MIRACLE) used to compress variational Bayesian neural networks. MIRACLE…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

Compression with Bayesian Implicit Neural Representations

Zongyu Guo, Gergely Flamich, Jiajun He +2

Many common types of data can be represented as functions that map coordinates to signal values, such as pixel locations to RGB values in the case of an image. Based on this view,…

cs.IT2023★ 2 cited

Greedy Poisson Rejection Sampling

Gergely Flamich

One-shot channel simulation is a fundamental data compression problem concerned with encoding a single sample from a target distribution using a coding distribution using a…

cs.IT2023★ 10 cited

Adaptive Greedy Rejection Sampling

Gergely Flamich, Lucas Theis

We consider channel simulation protocols between two communicating parties, Alice and Bob. First, Alice receives a target distribution , unknown to Bob. Then, she employs a shar…

cs.IT2022★ 6 cited

Fast Relative Entropy Coding with A* coding

Gergely Flamich, Stratis Markou, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Relative entropy coding (REC) algorithms encode a sample from a target distribution using a proposal distribution , such that the expected codelength is $\mathcal{O}(D_{KL}[…

cs.IT2020★ 18 cited

Compressing Images by Encoding Their Latent Representations with Relative Entropy Coding

Gergely Flamich, Marton Havasi, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have seen widespread use in learned image compression. They are used to learn expressive latent representations on which downstream compression meth…