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Variational image compression with a scale hyperprior

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We describe an end-to-end trainable model for image compression based on variational autoencoders. The model incorporates a hyperprior to effectively capture spatial dependencies in the latent representation. This hyperprior relates to side information, a concept universal to virtually all modern image codecs, but largely unexplored in image compression using artificial neural networks (ANNs). Unlike existing autoencoder compression methods, our model trains a complex prior jointly with the underlying autoencoder. We demonstrate that this model leads to state-of-the-art image compression when measuring visual quality using the popular MS-SSIM index, and yields rate-distortion performance surpassing published ANN-based methods when evaluated using a more traditional metric based on squared error (PSNR). Furthermore, we provide a qualitative comparison of models trained for different distortion metrics.

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Deep Convolutional Compression for Massive MIMO CSI Feedback

cs.IT · 2019-07-02 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

DeepCMC is a convolutional autoencoder architecture that compresses CSI matrices while jointly optimizing compression rate and reconstruction quality, outperforming prior schemes at equivalent bit rates.

Benchmarking Neural Speech Compression from a Rate-Distortion Perspective

eess.AS · 2026-06-10 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

ECC integrates hyperprior side information, channel-wise context, latent residual prediction, temporal modeling, and entropy skip into a learned entropy model, yielding 39.9% and 76.3% average BD-rate reductions on ViSQOL and PESQ over baselines.

Few-step Generative Models as Lossy Compression

cs.CV · 2026-06-09 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Few-step generative models can be reformulated as lossy codecs in the reverse channel coding framework without retraining, yielding faster encoding/decoding on low-resolution image benchmarks.

A Geometric Lens on Physics-Aligned Data Compression

cs.LG · 2026-06-02 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Develops a local tangent-space rate-distortion theory and eigenspace-overlap diagnostic showing when physics-aligned compression necessarily degrades standard fidelity due to misaligned sensitivity directions.

Motion-Compensated Weight Compression

cs.CV · 2026-05-23 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

MCWC aligns permutation-symmetric blocks across layers to enable sequential prediction and residual entropy coding, improving rate-accuracy tradeoffs versus quantization and prior codecs on language and vision models.

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