Coding on Countably Infinite Alphabets

DOI10.1109/TIT.2008.2008150zbMATH Open1367.94151DBLPjournals/tit/BoucheronGG09arXiv0801.2456WikidataQ58374460 ScholiaQ58374460MaRDI QIDQ4975701FDOQ4975701

Authors: Stéphane Boucheron, Elisabeth Gassiat, Aurélien Garivier 

Publication date: 8 August 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper describes universal lossless coding strategies for compressing sources on countably infinite alphabets. Classes of memoryless sources defined by an envelope condition on the marginal distribution provide benchmarks for coding techniques originating from the theory of universal coding over finite alphabets. We prove general upper-bounds on minimax regret and lower-bounds on minimax redundancy for such source classes. The general upper bounds emphasize the role of the Normalized Maximum Likelihood codes with respect to minimax regret in the infinite alphabet context. Lower bounds are derived by tailoring sharp bounds on the redundancy of Krichevsky-Trofimov coders for sources over finite alphabets. Up to logarithmic (resp. constant) factors the bounds are matching for source classes defined by algebraically declining (resp. exponentially vanishing) envelopes. Effective and (almost) adaptive coding techniques are described for the collection of source classes defined by algebraically vanishing envelopes. Those results extend ourknowledge concerning universal coding to contexts where the key tools from parametric inference

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2456

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24) Coding and information theory (compaction, compression, models of communication, encoding schemes, etc.) (aspects in computer science) (68P30) Bounds on codes (94B65)

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