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Rate-Distortion Analysis of Distributed Indirect Source Coding
Jiancheng Tang1, Qianqian Yang1
1College of information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310007, China.
Abstract:
Motivated by task-oriented semantic communication and distributed learning systems, this paper studies a distributed indirect source coding problem where M correlated sources are independently encoded for a central decoder. The decoder has access to correlated side information in addition to the messages received from the encoders and aims to recover a latent random variable under a given distortion constraint rather than recovering the sources themselves. We characterize the exact rate-distortion function for the case where the sources are conditionally independent given the side information. Furthermore, we develop a distributed Blahut-Arimoto (BA) algorithm to numerically compute the rate-distortion function. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in calculating the rate-distortion region.
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