Neural Distributed Source Coding

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Autori principali: Whang, Jay, Nagle, Alliot, Acharya, Anish, Kim, Hyeji, Dimakis, Alexandros G.
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Pubblicazione: 2021
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author Whang, Jay
Nagle, Alliot
Acharya, Anish
Kim, Hyeji
Dimakis, Alexandros G.
author_facet Whang, Jay
Nagle, Alliot
Acharya, Anish
Kim, Hyeji
Dimakis, Alexandros G.
contents Distributed source coding (DSC) is the task of encoding an input in the absence of correlated side information that is only available to the decoder. Remarkably, Slepian and Wolf showed in 1973 that an encoder without access to the side information can asymptotically achieve the same compression rate as when the side information is available to it. While there is vast prior work on this topic, practical DSC has been limited to synthetic datasets and specific correlation structures. Here we present a framework for lossy DSC that is agnostic to the correlation structure and can scale to high dimensions. Rather than relying on hand-crafted source modeling, our method utilizes a conditional Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) to learn the distributed encoder and decoder. We evaluate our method on multiple datasets and show that our method can handle complex correlations and achieves state-of-the-art PSNR. Our code is made available at https://github.com/acnagle/neural-dsc.
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spellingShingle Neural Distributed Source Coding
Whang, Jay
Nagle, Alliot
Acharya, Anish
Kim, Hyeji
Dimakis, Alexandros G.
Information Theory
Machine Learning
Distributed source coding (DSC) is the task of encoding an input in the absence of correlated side information that is only available to the decoder. Remarkably, Slepian and Wolf showed in 1973 that an encoder without access to the side information can asymptotically achieve the same compression rate as when the side information is available to it. While there is vast prior work on this topic, practical DSC has been limited to synthetic datasets and specific correlation structures. Here we present a framework for lossy DSC that is agnostic to the correlation structure and can scale to high dimensions. Rather than relying on hand-crafted source modeling, our method utilizes a conditional Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoder (VQ-VAE) to learn the distributed encoder and decoder. We evaluate our method on multiple datasets and show that our method can handle complex correlations and achieves state-of-the-art PSNR. Our code is made available at https://github.com/acnagle/neural-dsc.
title Neural Distributed Source Coding
topic Information Theory
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.02797