arXiv Machine Learning

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

arXiv:2607. 17232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical rate-distortion (RD) theory has long established the fundamental limits of lossy compression by quantifying the minimum number of bits required to represent a source under a prescribed distortion constraint.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30

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

arXiv:2604. 14603v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The fundamental limit of natural signal compression has traditionally been characterized by classical rate-distortion (RD) theory through the tradeoff between coding rate and reconstruction distortion, while the rate-distortion-perception (RDP) framework introduces a divergence-based measure of perceptual quality as a modeling principle, leaving its theoretical origin unclear.

By Zijian Liang, Kai Niu, Changshuo Wang, Jin Xu, Ping Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

How Neural Losses Shape VAE Latents

arXiv:2606. 00635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern VAEs are rarely trained with the pointwise likelihood implied by the standard $\beta$-VAE objective.

By Giorgio Strano, Luca Cerovaz, Michele Mancusi, Tommaso Mencattini, Emanuele Rodol\`a