Exact Redundancy for Symmetric Rate-Distortion

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Main Authors: Sriramu, Sharang M., Wagner, Aaron B.
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Published: 2026
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author Sriramu, Sharang M.
Wagner, Aaron B.
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Wagner, Aaron B.
contents For variable-length coding with an almost-sure distortion constraint, Zhang et al. show that for discrete sources the redundancy is upper bounded by $\log n/n$ and lower bounded (in most cases) by $\log n/(2n)$, ignoring lower order terms. For a uniform source with a distortion measure satisfying certain symmetry conditions, we show that $\log n/(2n)$ is achievable and that this cannot be improved even if one relaxes the distortion constraint to be in expectation rather than with probability one.
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spellingShingle Exact Redundancy for Symmetric Rate-Distortion
Sriramu, Sharang M.
Wagner, Aaron B.
Information Theory
For variable-length coding with an almost-sure distortion constraint, Zhang et al. show that for discrete sources the redundancy is upper bounded by $\log n/n$ and lower bounded (in most cases) by $\log n/(2n)$, ignoring lower order terms. For a uniform source with a distortion measure satisfying certain symmetry conditions, we show that $\log n/(2n)$ is achievable and that this cannot be improved even if one relaxes the distortion constraint to be in expectation rather than with probability one.
title Exact Redundancy for Symmetric Rate-Distortion
topic Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11927