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Main Authors: Massicot, Olivier, Cervia, Giulia, Treust, Maël Le
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11810
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author Massicot, Olivier
Cervia, Giulia
Treust, Maël Le
author_facet Massicot, Olivier
Cervia, Giulia
Treust, Maël Le
contents Empirical coordination offers a way to understand how agents can coordinate actions under communication constraints. This paper investigates the finite blocklength regime of this problem, where the encoder and decoder aim to produce a sequence of action pairs that is jointly typical with respect to a target distribution. Adopting Shannon's random coding argument and leveraging the method of types, we analyze the average performance of a random codebook to establish an achievability result. The resulting bound on the optimal rate is presented both in exact form and as an asymptotic expansion, aligning with the prevailing characterizations in the finite blocklength literature. This work extends finite blocklength analysis to the empirical coordination setting, complementing existing results on strong coordination.
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spellingShingle Empirical coordination in the finite blocklength regime: an achievability result---Extended version
Massicot, Olivier
Cervia, Giulia
Treust, Maël Le
Information Theory
94A15
H.1.1
Empirical coordination offers a way to understand how agents can coordinate actions under communication constraints. This paper investigates the finite blocklength regime of this problem, where the encoder and decoder aim to produce a sequence of action pairs that is jointly typical with respect to a target distribution. Adopting Shannon's random coding argument and leveraging the method of types, we analyze the average performance of a random codebook to establish an achievability result. The resulting bound on the optimal rate is presented both in exact form and as an asymptotic expansion, aligning with the prevailing characterizations in the finite blocklength literature. This work extends finite blocklength analysis to the empirical coordination setting, complementing existing results on strong coordination.
title Empirical coordination in the finite blocklength regime: an achievability result---Extended version
topic Information Theory
94A15
H.1.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11810