A Framework for Robust Lossy Compression of Heavy-Tailed Sources

Karim Ezzeddine, Jihad Fahs, Ibrahim Abou-Faycal

We study the rate-distortion problem for both scalar and vector memoryless heavy-tailed $\hat{I}\pm$-stable sources ($0<\hat{I}\pm <2$). Using a recently defined notion of ``strength" as a power…