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Statistical mechanics of lossy data compression using a nonmonotonic perceptron
Tadaaki Hosaka1, Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Hidetoshi Nishimori
1Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama 2268502, Japan. hosaka@sp.sis.titech.ac.jp
Abstract:
The performance of a lossy data compression scheme for uniformly biased Boolean messages is investigated via methods of statistical mechanics. Inspired by a formal similarity to the storage capacity problem in neural network research, we utilize a perceptron of which the transfer function is appropriately designed in order to compress and decode the messages. Employing the replica method, we analytically show that our scheme can achieve the optimal performance known in the framework of lossy compression in most cases when the code length becomes infinite. The validity of the obtained results is numerically confirmed.