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6 papers

cs.IT2026

Lossy Compression, Realism, and Coordination

Yassine Hamdi, Deniz Gündüz

Classical rate-distortion theory characterizes the fundamental limits of lossy compression under fidelity constraints, but minimizing distortion often yields perceptually unsatisfy…

cs.IT2026

Tighter Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds via a Novel Class of Change of Measure Inequalities

Yanxiao Liu, Yijun Fan, Deniz Gündüz

Change of measure inequalities translate divergences between probability measures into explicit bounds on event probabilities, and play an important role in deriving probabilistic…

cs.IT2025

The Rate-Distortion-Perception Trade-Off with Algorithmic Realism

Yassine Hamdi, Aaron B. Wagner, Deniz Gündüz

Realism constraints (or constraints on perceptual quality) have received considerable recent attention within the context of lossy compression, particularly of images. Theoretical…

cs.AI2025

Test-time Verification via Optimal Transport: Coverage, ROC, & Sub-optimality

Arpan Mukherjee, Marcello Bullo, Debabrota Basu +1

While test-time scaling with verification has shown promise in improving the performance of large language models (LLMs), the role of the verifier and its imperfections remain unde…

cs.LG2025

SharedRep-RLHF: A Shared Representation Approach to RLHF with Diverse Preferences

Arpan Mukherjee, Marcello Bullo, Deniz Gündüz

Uniform-reward reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which trains a single reward model to represent the preferences of all annotators, fails to capture the diversity…

cs.IT2025

Rate-Distortion-Perception Trade-off with Strong Realism Constraints: Role of Side Information and Common Randomness

Yassine Hamdi, Aaron B. Wagner, Deniz Gündüz

In image compression, with recent advances in generative modeling, existence of a trade-off between the rate and perceptual quality has been brought to light, where the perceptual…