---
_id: '12011'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We characterize the capacity for the discrete-time arbitrarily varying channel
    with discrete inputs, outputs, and states when (a) the encoder and decoder do
    not share common randomness, (b) the input and state are subject to cost constraints,
    (c) the transition matrix of the channel is deterministic given the state, and
    (d) at each time step the adversary can only observe the current and past channel
    inputs when choosing the state at that time. The achievable strategy involves
    stochastic encoding together with list decoding and a disambiguation step. The
    converse uses a two-phase "babble-and-push" strategy where the adversary chooses
    the state randomly in the first phase, list decodes the output, and then chooses
    state inputs to symmetrize the channel in the second phase. These results generalize
    prior work on specific channels models (additive, erasure) to general discrete
    alphabets and models.
acknowledgement: The work of ADS and ML was supported in part by the US National Science
  Foundation under awards CCF-1909468 and CCF-1909451.
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Yihan
  full_name: Zhang, Yihan
  id: 2ce5da42-b2ea-11eb-bba5-9f264e9d002c
  last_name: Zhang
- first_name: Sidharth
  full_name: Jaggi, Sidharth
  last_name: Jaggi
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: Langberg, Michael
  last_name: Langberg
- first_name: Anand D.
  full_name: Sarwate, Anand D.
  last_name: Sarwate
citation:
  ama: 'Zhang Y, Jaggi S, Langberg M, Sarwate AD. The capacity of causal adversarial
    channels. In: <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>.
    Vol 2022. IEEE; 2022:2523-2528. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709</a>'
  apa: 'Zhang, Y., Jaggi, S., Langberg, M., &#38; Sarwate, A. D. (2022). The capacity
    of causal adversarial channels. In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i> (Vol. 2022, pp. 2523–2528). Espoo, Finland: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709</a>'
  chicago: Zhang, Yihan, Sidharth Jaggi, Michael Langberg, and Anand D. Sarwate. “The
    Capacity of Causal Adversarial Channels.” In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium
    on Information Theory</i>, 2022:2523–28. IEEE, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709</a>.
  ieee: Y. Zhang, S. Jaggi, M. Langberg, and A. D. Sarwate, “The capacity of causal
    adversarial channels,” in <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i>, Espoo, Finland, 2022, vol. 2022, pp. 2523–2528.
  ista: 'Zhang Y, Jaggi S, Langberg M, Sarwate AD. 2022. The capacity of causal adversarial
    channels. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. ISIT: Internation
    Symposium on Information Theory vol. 2022, 2523–2528.'
  mla: Zhang, Yihan, et al. “The Capacity of Causal Adversarial Channels.” <i>2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, vol. 2022, IEEE, 2022,
    pp. 2523–28, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709</a>.
  short: Y. Zhang, S. Jaggi, M. Langberg, A.D. Sarwate, in:, 2022 IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory, IEEE, 2022, pp. 2523–2528.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:03Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-09-05T09:09:15Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834709
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2205.06708'
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: ' https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.06708'
month: '08'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 2523-2528
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: The capacity of causal adversarial channels
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '12012'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This paper is eligible for the Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award. We
    generalize a previous framework for designing utility-optimal differentially private
    (DP) mechanisms via graphs, where datasets are vertices in the graph and edges
    represent dataset neighborhood. The boundary set contains datasets where an individual’s
    response changes the binary-valued query compared to its neighbors. Previous work
    was limited to the homogeneous case where the privacy parameter ε across all datasets
    was the same and the mechanism at boundary datasets was identical. In our work,
    the mechanism can take different distributions at the boundary and the privacy
    parameter ε is a function of neighboring datasets, which recovers an earlier definition
    of personalized DP as special case. The problem is how to extend the mechanism,
    which is only defined at the boundary set, to other datasets in the graph in a
    computationally efficient and utility optimal manner. Using the concept of strongest
    induced DP condition we solve this problem efficiently in polynomial time (in
    the size of the graph).
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Sahel
  full_name: Torkamani, Sahel
  id: 0503e7f8-2d05-11ed-aa17-db0640c720fc
  last_name: Torkamani
- first_name: Javad B.
  full_name: Ebrahimi, Javad B.
  last_name: Ebrahimi
- first_name: Parastoo
  full_name: Sadeghi, Parastoo
  last_name: Sadeghi
- first_name: Rafael G.L.
  full_name: D'Oliveira, Rafael G.L.
  last_name: D'Oliveira
- first_name: Muriel
  full_name: Médard, Muriel
  last_name: Médard
citation:
  ama: 'Torkamani S, Ebrahimi JB, Sadeghi P, D’Oliveira RGL, Médard M. Heterogeneous
    differential privacy via graphs. In: <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i>. Vol 2022. IEEE; 2022:1623-1628. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711</a>'
  apa: 'Torkamani, S., Ebrahimi, J. B., Sadeghi, P., D’Oliveira, R. G. L., &#38; Médard,
    M. (2022). Heterogeneous differential privacy via graphs. In <i>2022 IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory</i> (Vol. 2022, pp. 1623–1628). Espoo, Finland:
    IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711</a>'
  chicago: Torkamani, Sahel, Javad B. Ebrahimi, Parastoo Sadeghi, Rafael G.L. D’Oliveira,
    and Muriel Médard. “Heterogeneous Differential Privacy via Graphs.” In <i>2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, 2022:1623–28. IEEE, 2022.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711</a>.
  ieee: S. Torkamani, J. B. Ebrahimi, P. Sadeghi, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and M. Médard,
    “Heterogeneous differential privacy via graphs,” in <i>2022 IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory</i>, Espoo, Finland, 2022, vol. 2022, pp. 1623–1628.
  ista: 'Torkamani S, Ebrahimi JB, Sadeghi P, D’Oliveira RGL, Médard M. 2022. Heterogeneous
    differential privacy via graphs. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory. ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory vol. 2022, 1623–1628.'
  mla: Torkamani, Sahel, et al. “Heterogeneous Differential Privacy via Graphs.” <i>2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, vol. 2022, IEEE, 2022,
    pp. 1623–28, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711</a>.
  short: S. Torkamani, J.B. Ebrahimi, P. Sadeghi, R.G.L. D’Oliveira, M. Médard, in:,
    2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, IEEE, 2022, pp. 1623–1628.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:04Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-09-05T10:28:35Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834711
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2203.15429'
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.15429
month: '08'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 1623-1628
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Heterogeneous differential privacy via graphs
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '12013'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We consider the problem of communication over adversarial channels with feedback.
    Two parties comprising sender Alice and receiver Bob seek to communicate reliably.
    An adversary James observes Alice's channel transmission entirely and chooses,
    maliciously, its additive channel input or jamming state thereby corrupting Bob's
    observation. Bob can communicate over a one-way reverse link with Alice; we assume
    that transmissions over this feedback link cannot be corrupted by James. Our goal
    in this work is to study the optimum throughput or capacity over such channels
    with feedback. We first present results for the quadratically-constrained additive
    channel where communication is known to be impossible when the noise-to-signal
    (power) ratio (NSR) is at least 1. We present a novel achievability scheme to
    establish that positive rate communication is possible even when the NSR is as
    high as 8/9. We also present new converse upper bounds on the capacity of this
    channel under potentially stochastic encoders and decoders. We also study feedback
    communication over the more widely studied q-ary alphabet channel under additive
    noise. For the q -ary channel, where q > 2, it is well known that capacity is
    positive under full feedback if and only if the adversary can corrupt strictly
    less than half the transmitted symbols. We generalize this result and show that
    the same threshold holds for positive rate communication when the noiseless feedback
    may only be partial; our scheme employs a stochastic decoder. We extend this characterization,
    albeit partially, to fully deterministic schemes under partial noiseless feedback.
    We also present new converse upper bounds for q-ary channels under full feedback,
    where the encoder and/or decoder may privately randomize. Our converse results
    bring to the fore an interesting alternate expression for the well known converse
    bound for the q—ary channel under full feedback which, when specialized to the
    binary channel, also equals its known capacity.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Pranav
  full_name: Joshi, Pranav
  last_name: Joshi
- first_name: Amritakshya
  full_name: Purkayastha, Amritakshya
  last_name: Purkayastha
- first_name: Yihan
  full_name: Zhang, Yihan
  id: 2ce5da42-b2ea-11eb-bba5-9f264e9d002c
  last_name: Zhang
- first_name: Amitalok J.
  full_name: Budkuley, Amitalok J.
  last_name: Budkuley
- first_name: Sidharth
  full_name: Jaggi, Sidharth
  last_name: Jaggi
citation:
  ama: 'Joshi P, Purkayastha A, Zhang Y, Budkuley AJ, Jaggi S. On the capacity of
    additive AVCs with feedback. In: <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i>. Vol 2022. IEEE; 2022:504-509. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850</a>'
  apa: 'Joshi, P., Purkayastha, A., Zhang, Y., Budkuley, A. J., &#38; Jaggi, S. (2022).
    On the capacity of additive AVCs with feedback. In <i>2022 IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory</i> (Vol. 2022, pp. 504–509). Espoo, Finland:
    IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850</a>'
  chicago: Joshi, Pranav, Amritakshya Purkayastha, Yihan Zhang, Amitalok J. Budkuley,
    and Sidharth Jaggi. “On the Capacity of Additive AVCs with Feedback.” In <i>2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, 2022:504–9. IEEE, 2022.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850</a>.
  ieee: P. Joshi, A. Purkayastha, Y. Zhang, A. J. Budkuley, and S. Jaggi, “On the
    capacity of additive AVCs with feedback,” in <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium
    on Information Theory</i>, Espoo, Finland, 2022, vol. 2022, pp. 504–509.
  ista: 'Joshi P, Purkayastha A, Zhang Y, Budkuley AJ, Jaggi S. 2022. On the capacity
    of additive AVCs with feedback. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory. ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory vol. 2022, 504–509.'
  mla: Joshi, Pranav, et al. “On the Capacity of Additive AVCs with Feedback.” <i>2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, vol. 2022, IEEE, 2022,
    pp. 504–09, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850</a>.
  short: P. Joshi, A. Purkayastha, Y. Zhang, A.J. Budkuley, S. Jaggi, in:, 2022 IEEE
    International Symposium on Information Theory, IEEE, 2022, pp. 504–509.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:04Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-09-05T10:23:35Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834850
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '08'
oa_version: None
page: 504-509
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: On the capacity of additive AVCs with feedback
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '12014'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We study the problem of high-dimensional multiple packing in Euclidean space.
    Multiple packing is a natural generalization of sphere packing and is defined
    as follows. Let N > 0 and L∈Z≥2. A multiple packing is a set C of points in Rn
    such that any point in Rn lies in the intersection of at most L – 1 balls of radius
    nN−−−√ around points in C. Given a well-known connection with coding theory, multiple
    packings can be viewed as the Euclidean analog of list-decodable codes, which
    are well-studied for finite fields. In this paper, we exactly pin down the asymptotic
    density of (expurgated) Poisson Point Processes under a stronger notion called
    average-radius multiple packing. To this end, we apply tools from high-dimensional
    geometry and large deviation theory. This gives rise to the best known lower bound
    on the largest multiple packing density. Our result corrects a mistake in a previous
    paper by Blinovsky [Bli05].
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Yihan
  full_name: Zhang, Yihan
  id: 2ce5da42-b2ea-11eb-bba5-9f264e9d002c
  last_name: Zhang
- first_name: Shashank
  full_name: Vatedka, Shashank
  last_name: Vatedka
citation:
  ama: 'Zhang Y, Vatedka S. List-decodability of Poisson Point Processes. In: <i>2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>. Vol 2022. IEEE; 2022:2559-2564.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512</a>'
  apa: 'Zhang, Y., &#38; Vatedka, S. (2022). List-decodability of Poisson Point Processes.
    In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i> (Vol. 2022,
    pp. 2559–2564). Espoo, Finland: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512</a>'
  chicago: Zhang, Yihan, and Shashank Vatedka. “List-Decodability of Poisson Point
    Processes.” In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>,
    2022:2559–64. IEEE, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512</a>.
  ieee: Y. Zhang and S. Vatedka, “List-decodability of Poisson Point Processes,” in
    <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, Espoo, Finland,
    2022, vol. 2022, pp. 2559–2564.
  ista: 'Zhang Y, Vatedka S. 2022. List-decodability of Poisson Point Processes. 2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. ISIT: Internation Symposium
    on Information Theory vol. 2022, 2559–2564.'
  mla: Zhang, Yihan, and Shashank Vatedka. “List-Decodability of Poisson Point Processes.”
    <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, vol. 2022, IEEE,
    2022, pp. 2559–64, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512</a>.
  short: Y. Zhang, S. Vatedka, in:, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory, IEEE, 2022, pp. 2559–2564.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:04Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-09-05T09:23:04Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834512
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '08'
oa_version: None
page: 2559-2564
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: List-decodability of Poisson Point Processes
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '12015'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We study the problem of high-dimensional multiple packing in Euclidean space.
    Multiple packing is a natural generalization of sphere packing and is defined
    as follows. Let P, N > 0 and L∈Z≥2. A multiple packing is a set C of points in
    Bn(0–,nP−−−√) such that any point in ℝ n lies in the intersection of at most L
    – 1 balls of radius nN−−−√ around points in C. 1 In this paper, we derive two
    lower bounds on the largest possible density of a multiple packing. These bounds
    are obtained through a stronger notion called average-radius multiple packing.
    Specifically, we exactly pin down the asymptotics of (expurgated) Gaussian codes
    and (expurgated) spherical codes under average-radius multiple packing. To this
    end, we apply tools from high-dimensional geometry and large deviation theory.
    The bound for spherical codes matches the previous best known bound which was
    obtained for the standard (weaker) notion of multiple packing through a curious
    connection with error exponents [Bli99], [ZV21]. The bound for Gaussian codes
    suggests that they are strictly inferior to spherical codes.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Yihan
  full_name: Zhang, Yihan
  id: 2ce5da42-b2ea-11eb-bba5-9f264e9d002c
  last_name: Zhang
- first_name: Shashank
  full_name: Vatedka, Shashank
  last_name: Vatedka
citation:
  ama: 'Zhang Y, Vatedka S. Lower bounds for multiple packing. In: <i>2022 IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory</i>. Vol 2022. IEEE; 2022:3085-3090. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443</a>'
  apa: 'Zhang, Y., &#38; Vatedka, S. (2022). Lower bounds for multiple packing. In
    <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i> (Vol. 2022, pp.
    3085–3090). Espoo, Finland: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443</a>'
  chicago: Zhang, Yihan, and Shashank Vatedka. “Lower Bounds for Multiple Packing.”
    In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, 2022:3085–90.
    IEEE, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443</a>.
  ieee: Y. Zhang and S. Vatedka, “Lower bounds for multiple packing,” in <i>2022 IEEE
    International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, Espoo, Finland, 2022, vol.
    2022, pp. 3085–3090.
  ista: 'Zhang Y, Vatedka S. 2022. Lower bounds for multiple packing. 2022 IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory. ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory
    vol. 2022, 3085–3090.'
  mla: Zhang, Yihan, and Shashank Vatedka. “Lower Bounds for Multiple Packing.” <i>2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, vol. 2022, IEEE, 2022,
    pp. 3085–90, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443</a>.
  short: Y. Zhang, S. Vatedka, in:, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory, IEEE, 2022, pp. 3085–3090.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:05Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2022-09-05T10:39:04Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834443
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '08'
oa_version: None
page: 3085-3090
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Lower bounds for multiple packing
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '12016'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We consider the problem of coded distributed computing using polar codes.
    The average execution time of a coded computing system is related to the error
    probability for transmission over the binary erasure channel in recent work by
    Soleymani, Jamali and Mahdavifar, where the performance of binary linear codes
    is investigated. In this paper, we focus on polar codes and unveil a connection
    between the average execution time and the scaling exponent μ of the family of
    codes. In the finite-length characterization of polar codes, the scaling exponent
    is a key object capturing the speed of convergence to capacity. In particular,
    we show that (i) the gap between the normalized average execution time of polar
    codes and that of optimal MDS codes is O(n –1/μ ), and (ii) this upper bound can
    be improved to roughly O(n –1/2 ) by considering polar codes with large kernels.
    We conjecture that these bounds could be improved to O(n –2/μ ) and O(n –1 ),
    respectively, and provide a heuristic argument as well as numerical evidence supporting
    this view.
acknowledgement: D. Fathollahi and M. Mondelli were partially supported by the 2019
  Lopez-Loreta Prize. The authors thank Hamed Hassani and Hessam Mahdavifar for helpful
  discussions.
article_processing_charge: No
arxiv: 1
author:
- first_name: Dorsa
  full_name: Fathollahi, Dorsa
  last_name: Fathollahi
- first_name: Marco
  full_name: Mondelli, Marco
  id: 27EB676C-8706-11E9-9510-7717E6697425
  last_name: Mondelli
  orcid: 0000-0002-3242-7020
citation:
  ama: 'Fathollahi D, Mondelli M. Polar coded computing: The role of the scaling exponent.
    In: <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>. Vol 2022.
    IEEE; 2022:2154-2159. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712</a>'
  apa: 'Fathollahi, D., &#38; Mondelli, M. (2022). Polar coded computing: The role
    of the scaling exponent. In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i> (Vol. 2022, pp. 2154–2159). Espoo, Finland: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712</a>'
  chicago: 'Fathollahi, Dorsa, and Marco Mondelli. “Polar Coded Computing: The Role
    of the Scaling Exponent.” In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i>, 2022:2154–59. IEEE, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712</a>.'
  ieee: 'D. Fathollahi and M. Mondelli, “Polar coded computing: The role of the scaling
    exponent,” in <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>,
    Espoo, Finland, 2022, vol. 2022, pp. 2154–2159.'
  ista: 'Fathollahi D, Mondelli M. 2022. Polar coded computing: The role of the scaling
    exponent. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. ISIT: Internation
    Symposium on Information Theory vol. 2022, 2154–2159.'
  mla: 'Fathollahi, Dorsa, and Marco Mondelli. “Polar Coded Computing: The Role of
    the Scaling Exponent.” <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>,
    vol. 2022, IEEE, 2022, pp. 2154–59, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712</a>.'
  short: D. Fathollahi, M. Mondelli, in:, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory, IEEE, 2022, pp. 2154–2159.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:05Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2024-09-10T13:03:17Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834712
external_id:
  arxiv:
  - '2201.10082'
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
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  url: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2201.10082
month: '08'
oa: 1
oa_version: Preprint
page: 2154-2159
project:
- _id: 059876FA-7A3F-11EA-A408-12923DDC885E
  name: Prix Lopez-Loretta 2019 - Marco Mondelli
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: 'Polar coded computing: The role of the scaling exponent'
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '12017'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'In the classic adversarial communication problem, two parties communicate
    over a noisy channel in the presence of a malicious jamming adversary. The arbitrarily
    varying channels (AVCs) offer an elegant framework to study a wide range of interesting
    adversary models. The optimal throughput or capacity over such AVCs is intimately
    tied to the underlying adversary model; in some cases, capacity is unknown and
    the problem is known to be notoriously hard. The omniscient adversary, one which
    knows the sender’s entire channel transmission a priori, is one of such classic
    models of interest; the capacity under such an adversary remains an exciting open
    problem. The myopic adversary is a generalization of that model where the adversary’s
    observation may be corrupted over a noisy discrete memoryless channel. Through
    the adversary’s myopicity, one can unify the slew of different adversary models,
    ranging from the omniscient adversary to one that is completely blind to the transmission
    (the latter is the well known oblivious model where the capacity is fully characterized).In
    this work, we present new results on the capacity under both the omniscient and
    myopic adversary models. We completely characterize the positive capacity threshold
    over general AVCs with omniscient adversaries. The characterization is in terms
    of two key combinatorial objects: the set of completely positive distributions
    and the CP-confusability set. For omniscient AVCs with positive capacity, we present
    non-trivial lower and upper bounds on the capacity; unlike some of the previous
    bounds, our bounds hold under fairly general input and jamming constraints. Our
    lower bound improves upon the generalized Gilbert-Varshamov bound for general
    AVCs while the upper bound generalizes the well known Elias-Bassalygo bound (known
    for binary and q-ary alphabets). For the myopic AVCs, we build on prior results
    known for the so-called sufficiently myopic model, and present new results on
    the positive rate communication threshold over the so-called insufficiently myopic
    regime (a completely insufficient myopic adversary specializes to an omniscient
    adversary). We present interesting examples for the widely studied models of adversarial
    bit-flip and bit-erasure channels. In fact, for the bit-flip AVC with additive
    adversarial noise as well as random noise, we completely characterize the omniscient
    model capacity when the random noise is sufficiently large vis-a-vis the adversary’s
    budget.'
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Anuj Kumar
  full_name: Yadav, Anuj Kumar
  last_name: Yadav
- first_name: Mohammadreza
  full_name: Alimohammadi, Mohammadreza
  last_name: Alimohammadi
- first_name: Yihan
  full_name: Zhang, Yihan
  id: 2ce5da42-b2ea-11eb-bba5-9f264e9d002c
  last_name: Zhang
- first_name: Amitalok J.
  full_name: Budkuley, Amitalok J.
  last_name: Budkuley
- first_name: Sidharth
  full_name: Jaggi, Sidharth
  last_name: Jaggi
citation:
  ama: 'Yadav AK, Alimohammadi M, Zhang Y, Budkuley AJ, Jaggi S. New results on AVCs
    with omniscient and myopic adversaries. In: <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium
    on Information Theory</i>. Vol 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers;
    2022:2535-2540. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632</a>'
  apa: 'Yadav, A. K., Alimohammadi, M., Zhang, Y., Budkuley, A. J., &#38; Jaggi, S.
    (2022). New results on AVCs with omniscient and myopic adversaries. In <i>2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i> (Vol. 2022, pp. 2535–2540).
    Espoo, Finland: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632</a>'
  chicago: Yadav, Anuj Kumar, Mohammadreza Alimohammadi, Yihan Zhang, Amitalok J.
    Budkuley, and Sidharth Jaggi. “New Results on AVCs with Omniscient and Myopic
    Adversaries.” In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>,
    2022:2535–40. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632</a>.
  ieee: A. K. Yadav, M. Alimohammadi, Y. Zhang, A. J. Budkuley, and S. Jaggi, “New
    results on AVCs with omniscient and myopic adversaries,” in <i>2022 IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory</i>, Espoo, Finland, 2022, vol. 2022, pp. 2535–2540.
  ista: 'Yadav AK, Alimohammadi M, Zhang Y, Budkuley AJ, Jaggi S. 2022. New results
    on AVCs with omniscient and myopic adversaries. 2022 IEEE International Symposium
    on Information Theory. ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory vol.
    2022, 2535–2540.'
  mla: Yadav, Anuj Kumar, et al. “New Results on AVCs with Omniscient and Myopic Adversaries.”
    <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, vol. 2022, Institute
    of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022, pp. 2535–40, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632</a>.
  short: A.K. Yadav, M. Alimohammadi, Y. Zhang, A.J. Budkuley, S. Jaggi, in:, 2022
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Institute of Electrical and
    Electronics Engineers, 2022, pp. 2535–2540.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:06Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-13T09:00:14Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834632
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '08'
oa_version: None
page: 2535-2540
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: New results on AVCs with omniscient and myopic adversaries
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '12018'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We study the problem of characterizing the maximal rates of list decoding
    in Euclidean spaces for finite list sizes. For any positive integer L ≥ 2 and
    real N > 0, we say that a subset C⊂Rn is an (N,L – 1)-multiple packing or an (N,L–
    1)-list decodable code if every Euclidean ball of radius nN−−−√ in ℝ n contains
    no more than L − 1 points of C. We study this problem with and without ℓ 2 norm
    constraints on C, and derive the best-known lower bounds on the maximal rate for
    (N,L−1) multiple packing. Our bounds are obtained via error exponents for list
    decoding over Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channels. We establish a curious
    inequality which relates the error exponent, a quantity of average-case nature,
    to the list-decoding radius, a quantity of worst-case nature. We derive various
    bounds on the error exponent for list decoding in both bounded and unbounded settings
    which could be of independent interest beyond multiple packing.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Yihan
  full_name: Zhang, Yihan
  id: 2ce5da42-b2ea-11eb-bba5-9f264e9d002c
  last_name: Zhang
- first_name: Shashank
  full_name: Vatedka, Shashank
  last_name: Vatedka
citation:
  ama: 'Zhang Y, Vatedka S. Lower bounds on list decoding capacity using error exponents.
    In: <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>. Vol 2022.
    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; 2022:1324-1329. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815</a>'
  apa: 'Zhang, Y., &#38; Vatedka, S. (2022). Lower bounds on list decoding capacity
    using error exponents. In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i> (Vol. 2022, pp. 1324–1329). Espoo, Finland: Institute of Electrical
    and Electronics Engineers. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815</a>'
  chicago: Zhang, Yihan, and Shashank Vatedka. “Lower Bounds on List Decoding Capacity
    Using Error Exponents.” In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i>, 2022:1324–29. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815</a>.
  ieee: Y. Zhang and S. Vatedka, “Lower bounds on list decoding capacity using error
    exponents,” in <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>,
    Espoo, Finland, 2022, vol. 2022, pp. 1324–1329.
  ista: 'Zhang Y, Vatedka S. 2022. Lower bounds on list decoding capacity using error
    exponents. 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. ISIT: Internation
    Symposium on Information Theory vol. 2022, 1324–1329.'
  mla: Zhang, Yihan, and Shashank Vatedka. “Lower Bounds on List Decoding Capacity
    Using Error Exponents.” <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>,
    vol. 2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022, pp. 1324–29,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815</a>.
  short: Y. Zhang, S. Vatedka, in:, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022, pp. 1324–1329.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:06Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-13T09:02:06Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834815
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '08'
oa_version: None
page: 1324-1329
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: Lower bounds on list decoding capacity using error exponents
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
---
_id: '12019'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This paper studies combinatorial properties of codes for the Z-channel. A
    Z-channel with error fraction τ takes as input a length-n binary codeword and
    injects in an adversarial manner up to nτ asymmetric errors, i.e., errors that
    only zero out bits but do not flip 0’s to 1’s. It is known that the largest (L
    − 1)-list-decodable code for the Z-channel with error fraction τ has exponential
    (in n) size if τ is less than a critical value that we call the Plotkin point
    and has constant size if τ is larger than the threshold. The (L−1)-list-decoding
    Plotkin point is known to be L−1L−1−L−LL−1. In this paper, we show that the largest
    (L−1)-list-decodable code ε-above the Plotkin point has size Θ L (ε −3/2 ) for
    any L − 1 ≥ 1.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Nikita
  full_name: Polyanskii, Nikita
  last_name: Polyanskii
- first_name: Yihan
  full_name: Zhang, Yihan
  id: 2ce5da42-b2ea-11eb-bba5-9f264e9d002c
  last_name: Zhang
citation:
  ama: 'Polyanskii N, Zhang Y. List-decodable zero-rate codes for the Z-channel. In:
    <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>. Vol 2022. Institute
    of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; 2022:2553-2558. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829</a>'
  apa: 'Polyanskii, N., &#38; Zhang, Y. (2022). List-decodable zero-rate codes for
    the Z-channel. In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>
    (Vol. 2022, pp. 2553–2558). Espoo, Finland: Institute of Electrical and Electronics
    Engineers. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829</a>'
  chicago: Polyanskii, Nikita, and Yihan Zhang. “List-Decodable Zero-Rate Codes for
    the Z-Channel.” In <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>,
    2022:2553–58. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829</a>.
  ieee: N. Polyanskii and Y. Zhang, “List-decodable zero-rate codes for the Z-channel,”
    in <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, Espoo, Finland,
    2022, vol. 2022, pp. 2553–2558.
  ista: 'Polyanskii N, Zhang Y. 2022. List-decodable zero-rate codes for the Z-channel.
    2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. ISIT: Internation Symposium
    on Information Theory vol. 2022, 2553–2558.'
  mla: Polyanskii, Nikita, and Yihan Zhang. “List-Decodable Zero-Rate Codes for the
    Z-Channel.” <i>2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, vol.
    2022, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022, pp. 2553–58, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829">10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829</a>.
  short: N. Polyanskii, Y. Zhang, in:, 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022, pp. 2553–2558.
conference:
  end_date: 2022-07-01
  location: Espoo, Finland
  name: 'ISIT: Internation Symposium on Information Theory'
  start_date: 2022-06-26
date_created: 2022-09-04T22:02:07Z
date_published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-02-13T09:02:18Z
day: '03'
department:
- _id: MaMo
doi: 10.1109/ISIT50566.2022.9834829
intvolume: '      2022'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '08'
oa_version: None
page: 2553-2558
publication: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9781665421591'
  issn:
  - 2157-8095
publication_status: published
publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: List-decodable zero-rate codes for the Z-channel
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
volume: 2022
year: '2022'
...
