{"title":"Age-of-Information Revisited: Two-way Delay and Distribution-oblivious Online Algorithm","authors":"Cho-Hsin Tsai, Chih-Chun Wang","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174306","url":null,"abstract":"The ever-increasing needs of supporting real-time applications have spurred a considerable number of studies on minimizing Age-of-Information (AoI), a new metric characterizing the data freshness of the system. This work revisits and significantly strengthens the seminal results of Sun et al. on the following fronts: (i) The optimal waiting policy is generalized from the 1-way delay to the 2-way delay setting; (ii) A new way of computing the optimal policy with quadratic convergence rate, an order-of-magnitude improvement over the state-of-the-art bisection methods; and (iii) A new low-complexity adaptive online algorithm that provably converges to the optimal policy without knowing the exact delay distribution, a sharp departure from the existing AoI algorithms. Contribution (iii) is especially important in practice since the delay distribution can sometimes be hard to know in advance and may change over time. Simulation results in various settings are consistent with the theoretic findings.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115228328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterizing the Bethe Partition Function of Double-Edge Factor Graphs via Graph Covers","authors":"Yuwen Huang, P. Vontobel","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174508","url":null,"abstract":"For standard factor graphs (S-FGs), i.e., factor graphs with local functions taking on non-negative real values, Vontobel gave a characterization of the Bethe approximation to the partition function in terms of the partition function of finite graph covers. The proof of that statement heavily relied on the method of types.In this paper we give a similar characterization for so-called double-edge factor graphs (DE-FGs), which are a class of factor graphs where local functions take on complex values and have to satisfy some positive semi-definiteness constraints. Such factor graphs are of interest in quantum information processing.In general, approximating the partition function of DE-FGs is more challenging than for S-FGs because the partition function is a sum of complex values and not just a sum of non-negative real values. In particular, for proving the above-mentioned characterization of the Bethe approximation in terms of finite graph covers, one cannot use the method of types anymore. We overcome this challenge by applying the loop-calculus transform by Chertkov and Chernyak, along with using the symmetricsubspace transform, a novel technique for factor graphs that should be of interest beyond proving the main result of this paper. Currently, the characterization of the Bethe approximation of the partition function of DE-FGs is for DE-FGs satisfying an (easily checkable) condition. However, based on numerical results, we suspect that the characterization holds more broadly.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115358765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resolvability of the Multiple Access Channel with Two-Sided Cooperation","authors":"Noha Helal, M. Bloch, Aria Nosratinia","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174302","url":null,"abstract":"We study the randomness required at the inputs of a multiple access channel in order to produce a desired, approximately i.i.d., output distribution, subject to cooperation in one of the following forms: (i) a common message, (ii) conferencing, (iii) feedback and (iv) generalized feedback. For the cases (i)-(iii), we characterize the channel resolvability via matching inner and outer bounds, and for generalized feedback we provide two inner bounds representing the role of decoding and randomness extraction, which can also be combined. One of the main contributions of this work is to show that resolvability rates of the multiple access channel are not improved with feedback, unlike the multiple access channel capacity which is improved by feedback.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124137445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maximum Likelihood Decoding for Channels with Uniform Noise and Signal Dependent Offset","authors":"R. Bu, J. Weber, Kees A. Schouhamer Immink","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174270","url":null,"abstract":"Maximum likelihood (ML) decision criteria have been developed for channels suffering from signal independent offset mismatch. Here, such criteria are considered for signal dependent offset, which means that the value of the offset may differ for distinct signal levels rather than being the same for all levels. An ML decision criterion is derived, assuming uniform distributions for both the noise and the offset. In particular, for the proposed ML decoder, bounds are determined on the standard deviations of the noise and the offset which lead to a word error rate equal to zero. Simulation results are presented confirming the findings.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124403255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Achievable Rates for Strategic Communication","authors":"Anuj S. Vora, Ankur A. Kulkarni","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174307","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce the problem of strategic communication and find achievable rates for this problem. The problem consists of a sender that observes a source and a receiver that would like to recover the source. The sender can send messages to the receiver over a noiseless medium whose input space is as large as the space of source signals. However, unlike standard communication, the sender is strategic. Depending on the source signal it receives, the sender may have an incentive, measured by a utility function, to misreport the signal, whereby, not all signals are necessarily recoverable at the receiver. The dilemma for the receiver lies in selecting the right signals to recover so that recovery happens with high probability. We establish achievable rates associated with these settings.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124437540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Binary Statistical Classification from Mismatched Empirically Observed Statistics","authors":"H. Hsu, I-Hsiang Wang","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174520","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we analyze the fundamental limit of statistical classification with mismatched empirically observed statistics. Unlike classical hypothesis testing where we have access to the distributions of data, now we only have two training sequences sampled i.i.d. from two unknown distributions P0 and P1 respectively. The goal is to classify a testing sequence sampled i.i.d. from one of the two candidate distributions, each of which is deviated slightly from P0 and P1 respectively. In other words, there is mismatch between how the training and testing sequences are generated. The amount of mismatch is measured by the norm of the deviation in the Euclidean space. Assuming the norm of deviation is not greater than δ, we derive an asymptotically optimal test in Chernoff’s regime, and analyze its error exponents in both Stein’s regime and Chernoff’s regime. We also give both upper and lower bounds on the decrease of error exponents due to (i) unknown distributions (ii) mismatch in training and testing distributions. When δ is small, we show that the decrease in error exponents is linear in δ and characterize its first-order term.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"37 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124518817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Charalambous, Themistoklis Charalambous, C. Kourtellaris, J. van Schuppen
{"title":"Structural Properties of Nonanticipatory Epsilon Entropy of Multivariate Gaussian Sources","authors":"C. Charalambous, Themistoklis Charalambous, C. Kourtellaris, J. van Schuppen","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174319","url":null,"abstract":"The complete characterization of the Gorbunov and Pinsker [1], [2] nonanticipatory epsilon entropy of multivariate Gauss-Markov sources with square-error fidelity is derived, which remained an open problem since 1974. Specifically, it is shown that the optimal matrices of the stochastic realization of the optimal test channel or reproduction distribution, admit spectral representations with respect to the same unitary matrices, and that the optimal reproduction process is generated, subject to pre-processing and post-processing by memoryless parallel additive Gaussian noise channels. The derivations and analyses are new and bring out several properties of such optimization problems over the space of conditional distributions and their realizations.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114664766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Alphabet-Size Bound for the Information Bottleneck Function","authors":"C. Hirche, A. Winter","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174416","url":null,"abstract":"The information bottleneck function gives a measure of optimal preservation of correlation between some random variable X and some side information Y while compressing X into a new random variable W with bounded remaining correlation to X. As such, the information bottleneck has found many natural applications in machine learning, coding and video compression. The main objective in order to calculate the information bottleneck is to find the optimal representation on W. This could in principle be arbitrarily complicated, but fortunately it is known that the cardinality of W can be restricted as $|mathcal{W}| leq |mathcal{X}| + 1$ which makes the calculation possible for finite $|mathcal{X}|$. Now, for many practical applications, e.g. in machine learning, X represents a potentially very large data space, while Y is from a comparably small set of labels. This raises the question whether the known cardinality bound can be improved in such situations. We show that the information bottleneck function can always be approximated up to an error $delta (varepsilon,;|mathcal{Y}|)$ with a cardinality $|mathcal{W}| leq f( in,;|mathcal{Y}|)$, for explicitly given functions δ and f of an approximation parameter ϵ > 0 and the cardinality of $mathcal{Y}$.Finally, we generalize the known cardinality boundsY to the case were some of the random variables represent quantum information.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114712101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On MIMO Gaussian Wiretap Channels with Optimal Energy Harvesting","authors":"Nima Tavangaran, M. Vaezi, H. Poor","doi":"10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT44484.2020.9174147","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we consider the problem of energy harvesting maximization in a wiretap channel model while keeping the secrecy rate higher than a given threshold and the transmit power lower than a given constant. In this model, the transmitted radio signal that conveys information is also considered as an energy carrier. The energy receiver (Eve) is a legitimate user who may benefit from the energy of the received signal that is sent to the information receiver (Bob) but she should not be able to decode the message itself. Energy harvesting maximization at Eve’s side is a non-convex optimization problem and therefore intractable. To tackle this problem, we use rotation matrices to represent the covariance matrix of the transmitted signal and then apply the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions. We derive an analytical solution for the case in which the number of transmit antennas is two whereas the numbers of receive antennas at Bob’s and Eve’s sides are arbitrary and finite. Finally, we verify the results by simulations.","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114920427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ISIT 2020 Organizing Committee","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/isit44484.2020.9174530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/isit44484.2020.9174530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":159311,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)","volume":"424 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116989438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}