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  1. Lossy Compression of PDE Training Inputs: Field Reconstruction Error Does Not Order the Cost to a Trained Operator

    Oct 5, 2026Huy Hoang LeRate-Distortion TheoryReconstruction Error

    Powermore Ltd., Da Nang, Vietnam

  2. Transform-Aligned Learned Features for Lossy Point Cloud Attribute Compression

    Sep 28, 2026Yueru Chen, Pengpeng Yu, Dingquan Li +3Point CloudsRate-Distortion Theory

    Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China · Peking University, Shenzhen, China +1

  3. Rate-Distortion Adaptive Primitive Selection for Omnidirectional Gaussian Splatting

    Sep 28, 2026Yulong Cheng, Youneng Bao, Junfeng Zhou +2Rate-Distortion TheoryGaussian Splatting

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

  4. SemRD-V2X: Closure-Guided Communication with Bounded Inference for Cooperative Perception

    Sep 28, 2026Hu Xu, Chun Li, Siyuan Qiu +2V2XCollaborative Perception

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  5. Gaussian Splatting-based Volumetric Video Compression with Sparse 4D Anchors

    Sep 27, 2026Ge Gao, Siyue Teng, Chanqgi Wang +5Volumetric VideoSparse-View

    Visual Information Lab, University of Bristol, UK · National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

  6. ENet-GP: Unified Document Image Restoration

    Sep 27, 2026Sujal Burad, Aakanksha, A. N. Rajagopalan +1Image RestorationVisual Degradation

    Indian Institute of Technology, Madras · Adobe, India

  7. Transformer-based Neural Beamforming for Real-Time Speech Enhancement on Smart Low-Power Hearable Devices

    Sep 27, 2026Luca Bompani, Marco Fariselli, Giovanni Oltrecolli +1Speech EnhancementBeamforming

    Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering (DEI), University of Bologna, Italy

  8. Perceptual Refinement of an End-to-End Video Streaming Pipeline via Generative AI Layers

    Sep 16, 2026Emanuele Artioli, Farzad Tashtarian, Christian TimmererRate-Distortion TheoryVideo Restoration

    Christian Doppler Laboratory ATHENA, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria

  9. tcnerv:dual-domain temporal context modeling for implicit neural video compression

    Sep 15, 2026Xuezhi Xiang, Yixin Zhao, Heqi Xiang +2Video CompressionDual-Branch Temporal Modeling

    Information and Communication Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China · Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada · The Department of Computer Science, Kanagawa University, Kanagawa, 221-8686, Japan

  10. The Cost of Compression: A Rate-Distortion Limit on Factual Hallucination

    Sep 14, 2026Xi Wang, Shijia Xu, Rongfeng GuoFactual RecallVisual Hallucinations

    Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China · University of Science and Technology of China, China · Chongqing University, China +1

  11. A Peer-Relative Representation Learning Framework for Energy Inefficiency Identification in Mobile Network Sites

    Sep 3, 2026Eliud Nyakweba Koto, Jaco du Toit, Adham Stoltz +1Energy-EfficientMobile Networks

    African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Cape Town, South Africa · Technology Strategy Planning Architecture & Assurance. Vodacom Group Limited, South Africa · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, South Africa +3

  12. Tree-Structured Vector Quantization For Efficient And Progressive Image Compression

    Sep 3, 2026Xinkun Wang, Tianyi Xu, Qingyu Luo +4Residual Vector QuantizationData Compression Methods

    School of Artificial Intelligence Xidian University

  13. Neural Video Compression Based on Deformable Temporal Alignment and Difference-aware Fusion

    Sep 3, 2026Chuyue Shan, Songlin Sun, Wang Chenwei +1Video CompressionData Compression Methods

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China · Google · Nanjing University

  14. HAMP-LIC: Hessian-Aware Mixed-Precision Post-Training Quantization for Learned Image Compression

    Aug 12, 2026Yuefeng ZhangLearned Image CompressionGenerative Image Compression

    Beijing Institute of Computer Technology and Application, Beijing, China · School of Elite Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi, China

  15. Every Packet Counts: Dispersing Information for Loss-Resilient Learned Image Compression

    Aug 11, 2026Yuhang Wei, Chuqin Zhou, Yibo Shi +2Learned Image CompressionRate-Distortion Theory

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China · Huawei Technologies Ltd +1

  16. Hardware-Aware Deployment of Joint SAR Compression and Despeckling on FPGA

    Aug 11, 2026Cédric Léonard, Francescopaolo Sica, Martin SchulzSynthetic Aperture RadarResource-Constrained Edge Devices

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Remote Sensing Technology Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Weßling, Germany · Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Neubiberg, Germany

  17. Transfer Learning-Enabled Distortion Compensation for Amplitude-Phase-Time Block Modulation-Based Nonlinear Single-Carrier Wireless Communications

    Aug 9, 2026Guoxing Duan, Min Fan, Cheng Yi +4Rate-Distortion TheoryDistortion

    School of Information Science and Engineering and the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China · Pervasive Communication Research Center, Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing 211111, China · College of Telecommunications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China +1

  18. Wavefront Parallelization for Efficient Learned Image Compression

    Jul 21, 2026Shimon Murai, Fangzheng Lin, Kasidis Arunruangsirilert +1Learned Image CompressionAutoregressive Image Generation

    School of Fundamental Science and Engineering Waseda University Tokyo, Japan · School of Engineering Institute of Science Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

  19. Rate-Distortion-Perception Theory: Redefining the Fundamental Limits of Information Representation

    Jul 19, 2026Photios A. Stavrou, Giuseppe Serra, Marios KountourisRate-Distortion TheorySource-Channel Coding

  20. Differentiable Proxy Learning for Adaptive Quantization Control in H.264 Video Coding

    Jul 11, 2026Qihan Xu, Ivan V. BajićRate-Distortion TheoryPerceptual Quality

    School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, Canada

  21. CoSAG: Compact Semantic Anchor Gaussians via Training-Free Rate-Distortion Coding

    Jul 11, 2026Yuang Jia, Jinlong Wang, Junhong Lin +23D Scene UnderstandingGaussian Primitives

    SECE, Peking University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  22. Clustered Codebook Quantization for 2D Gaussian-based Image Compression

    Jul 6, 2026Runze Cheng, Yicheng Zhan, Josef Spjut +1Residual Vector QuantizationRate-Distortion Theory

    University College London · London, UK · NVIDIA +1

  23. Rethinking Forgery Attacks on Semantic Watermarks in Black-Box Settings: A Geometric Distortion Perspective

    Jun 29, 2026Cheng-Yi Lee, Yichi Zhang, Yuchen Yang +2WatermarksWatermarking

    Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC · The Pennsylvania State University, PA, US

  24. Joint Learning of Covariance Estimation and White Noise Gain for Robust MVDR Beamforming

    Jun 23, 2026Yongyi Deng, Hanchen Pei, Jianbo Ma +3BeamformingSpeech Enhancement

    School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China · Dolby Laboratories · CIAIC, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China +1

  25. STAR-VAE: Structured Topology-Aware Regularization for Audio Reconstruction and Generation

    Jun 22, 2026Huadai Liu, Wen Wang, Kaicheng Luo +3Star-VaeModern Generative Audio Models

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Tongyi Fun Team, Alibaba Group.

  26. PaaF: Raising the perceived quality of INR-Based Image Compression

    Jun 19, 2026Lorenzo Catania, Dario AllegraLearned Image CompressionUltra-Low Bitrates

    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

  27. Dual-Constrained Diffusion Image Compression for Operational Rate-Distortion-Perception Optimization

    Jun 11, 2026Sanxin Jiang, Jiro Katto, Heming SunRate-Distortion TheoryDistortion

    Department of Information Engineering Shanghai University of Electric Power Shanghai, China · Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering Waseda University Tokyo, Japan · Faculty of Engineering Institute of Science Tokyo Tokyo, Japan

  28. JSCGC: Joint Source-Channel-Generation Coding for Wireless Generative Communications

    Jun 11, 2026Tong Wu, Zhiyong Chen, Guo Lu +4Source-Channel CodingRate-Distortion Theory

    Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center, the School of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  29. Benchmarking Neural Speech Compression from a Rate-Distortion Perspective

    Jun 10, 2026Jun Xu, Zhengxue Cheng, Fengxi Zhang +3Neural Speech CodecsRate-Distortion Theory

    School of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  30. Minimum Distortion Quantization with Specified Output Distribution

    Jun 9, 2026Aolin XuRate-Distortion TheoryQuantizer

  31. Adaptive state-action abstractions via rate-distortion

    Jun 4, 2026Fernando E. RosasRate-Distortion TheorySimilarity and Metrics

    Department of Informatics, University of Sussex · Department of Brain Science, Imperial College London · Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford

  32. A Geometric Lens on Physics-Aligned Data Compression

    Jun 2, 2026Aleix Segui, Wesley ArmourRate-Distortion TheoryAnisotropic

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

  33. How Neural Losses Shape VAE Latents

    May 30, 2026Giorgio Strano, Luca Cerovaz, Michele Mancusi +2Conditional Variational AutoencoderRate-Distortion Theory

    1Sapienza University of Rome · 2Paradigma, Inc. · 3Moises Systems, Inc. +1

  34. Matching Rates and Optimal Allocation for Federated Probe-Logit Distillation under Heterogeneous Bandwidth Budgets

    May 28, 2026Prasanjit Dubey, Xiaoming HuoBandwidth ExtensionKullback-Leibler Divergence

    H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A.

  35. Polynomial Context-Truncation Sensitivity in Autoregressive Language Models: Sequential Wyner-Ziv Bounds for KV Cache Compression

    May 24, 2026Munsik KimKey-Value Cache CompressionAutoregressive Language Models

    Independent Researcher.

  36. The Rate-Distortion-Polysemanticity Tradeoff in SAEs

    May 14, 2026Tommaso Mencattini, Francesco Montagna, Francesco LocatelloSemantic RepresentationsMechanistic Interpretability

    EPFL · Institute of Science and Technology Austria

  37. SPHERICAL KV: Angle-Domain Attention and Rate-Distortion Retention for Efficient Long-Context Inference

    May 13, 2026Anay Chauhan, Gurucharan Marthi Krishna Kumar, Arion Das +4Key-Value CacheKeys And Value

    1Synopsys, India · 2McGill University, Canada · 3IIIT Ranchi, India +4

  38. Every Bit, Everywhere, All at Once: A Binomial Multibit LLM Watermark

    May 12, 2026Thibaud Gloaguen, Robin Staab, Mark Vero +1Large Language Model WatermarksWatermarks

    ETH Zurich

  39. Remember the Decision, Not the Description: A Rate-Distortion Framework for Agent Memory

    May 11, 2026Mingxi Zou, Zhihan Guo, Langzhang Liang +6Long-Term Agent MemoryDecisions

    Fudan University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Meta AI +3

  40. Network-Efficient World Model Token Streaming

    May 11, 2026Shatadal Mishra, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Nejib AmmarWorld ModelsRate-Distortion Theory

    InfoTech Labs, Toyota Motor North America R&D, Mountain View, CA, USA

  41. Kelvin v1.0: A Neural Pre-Encoder for H.264: A standards-compliant learned preprocessor with -27.62% BD-VMAF on UVG

    May 10, 2026Marco GrazianoAffectcodecEncoders

    Graziano Labs Corp., Palo Alto, CA, USA.

  42. Control Your View: High-Resolution Global Semantic Manipulation in Learned Image Compression

    May 9, 2026Jiaming Liang, Chi-Man Pun, Weisi Lin +1Learned Image CompressionLow-Resolution

    University of Macau Macau, China · Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  43. RDKV: Rate-Distortion Bit Allocation for Joint Eviction and Quantization of the KV Cache

    May 8, 2026Junkai Zhang, Hang Guo, Luca Benini +1Key-Value Cache CompressionKey-Value Cache

    ETH Zurich · Tsinghua University

  44. LiVeAction: a Lightweight, Versatile, and Asymmetric Neural Codec Design for Real-time Operation

    May 7, 2026Dan Jacobellis, Neeraja J. YadwadkarNeural CodecsRate-Distortion Theory

    University of Texas at Austin

  45. Adaptive Transform Coding for Semantic Compression

    Apr 29, 2026Andriy Enttsel, Vincent CorlaySelf-Supervised Vision TransformersRate-Distortion Theory

    Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, Rennes, 35700, France

  46. Statistical Inference and Quality Measures of KV Cache Quantisations Inspired by TurboQuant

    Apr 27, 2026Paolo D'AlbertoKey-Value Cache QuantizationRate-Distortion Theory

    AMD

  47. Directional Confusions Reveal Divergent Inductive Biases Through Rate-Distortion Geometry in Human and Machine Vision

    Apr 23, 2026Leyla Roksan Caglar, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Baihan LinInductive BiasVisual Perception

    Windreich Department of AI and Human Health Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY, USA · Department of Computing Imperial College London London, UK · Windreich Department of AI and Human Health Department of Psychiatry Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY, USA

  48. Secure Rate-Distortion-Perception: A Randomized Distributed Function Computation Approach for Realism

    Apr 22, 2026Gustaf Åhlgren, Onur GünlüRate-Distortion TheorySource-Channel Coding

    Information Theory and Security Laboratory (ITSL), Linköping University, Sweden · Lehrstuhl für Nachrichtentechnik, Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany

  49. RateQuant: Optimal Mixed-Precision KV Cache Quantization via Rate-Distortion Theory

    Apr 22, 2026Fei Zuo, Zikang Zhou, Hao Cong +2Key-Value Cache QuantizationKey-Value Cache

    1BA TechWorks (BMW Group) · 2National University of Singapore · 3Tsinghua University

  50. A Synonymous Variational Perspective on the Rate-Distortion-Perception Tradeoff

    Apr 16, 2026Zijian Liang, Kai Niu, Changshuo Wang +2Rate-Distortion TheoryTask-Aware Compression

    Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China · State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

  51. Same Compression Principle, Different Geometry: Rate-Distortion Signatures Dissociate Biological and Artificial Visual Systems

    Mar 2, 2026Leyla Roksan Caglar, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Baihan LinRate-Distortion TheoryDistributional Signatures

    Windreich Department of AI and Human Health Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY, USA · Department of Computing Imperial College London London, UK · Windreich Department of AI and Human Health Department of Psychiatry Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY, USA

  52. Advances in Diffusion-Based Generative Compression

    Jan 26, 2026Yibo Yang, Stephan MandtRate-Distortion TheoryMulti-Reference Image Generation

    Chan Zuckerberg Biohub · University of California Irvine

  53. Single-step Diffusion-based Video Coding with Semantic-Temporal Guidance

    Dec 8, 2025Naifu Xue, Zhaoyang Jia, Jiahao Li +4Video CompressionVideo Coding

    Communication University of China · University of Science and Technology of China · Microsoft Research Asia

  54. LVQAC: Lattice Vector Quantization Coupled with Spatially Adaptive Companding for Efficient Learned Image Compression

    Mar 25, 2023Xi Zhang, Xiaolin WuLearned Image CompressionGenerative Image Compression

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · McMaster University

  55. Cyclic MPDR Beamforming for Suppression of Almost-Cyclostationary Acoustic Interference

    Date pendingGiovanni Bologni, Martin Bo M\oller, Richard Heusdens +1Absolute Noise-To-Clean MappingBeamforming

    Signal Processing Systems Group, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · Bang & Olufsen, Struer, 7600, Denmark · Netherlands Defence Academy, 1781 AC Den Helder, The Netherlands