An Implementable Scheme for Universal Lossy Compression of Discrete Markov Sources

dc.creatorJalali, Shirin
dc.creatorMontanari, Andrea
dc.creatorWeissman, Tsachy
dc.date2009-01-15
dc.date2009-01-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:30:57Z
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dc.descriptionWe present a new lossy compressor for discrete sources. For coding a source sequence $x^n$, the encoder starts by assigning a certain cost to each reconstruction sequence. It then finds the reconstruction that minimizes this cost and describes it losslessly to the decoder via a universal lossless compressor. The cost of a sequence is given by a linear combination of its empirical probabilities of some order $k+1$ and its distortion relative to the source sequence. The linear structure of the cost in the empirical count matrix allows the encoder to employ a Viterbi-like algorithm for obtaining the minimizing reconstruction sequence simply. We identify a choice of coefficients for the linear combination in the cost function which ensures that the algorithm universally achieves the optimum rate-distortion performance of any Markov source in the limit of large $n$, provided $k$ is increased as $o(\log n)$.
dc.description10 pages, 2 figures, Data Compression Conference (DCC) 2009
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2367
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2367
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/216295
dc.subjectInformation Theory
dc.titleAn Implementable Scheme for Universal Lossy Compression of Discrete Markov Sources
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