Achieving the Fundamental Limit of Lossless Analog Compression via Polarization

Abstract

In this paper, we study the lossless analog compression for i.i.d. discrete-continuous mixed signals via the polarization-based framework. We prove that for discrete-continuous mixed source, the error probability of maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation polarizes under the Hadamard transform, which extends the polarization phenomenon to analog domain. Building on this insight, we propose the partial Hadamard compression and develop the corresponding analog successive cancellation (SC) decoder. The proposed scheme consists of deterministic measurement matrices and non-iterative reconstruction algorithm, providing benefits in both space and computational complexity. Using the polarization of error probability, we prove that our approach achieves the information-theoretical limit for lossless analog compression developed by Wu and Verdú.