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An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Deduplication
Deduplication finds and removes long-range data duplicates. It is commonly
used in cloud and enterprise server settings and has been successfully applied
to primary, backup, and archival storage. Despite its practical importance as a
source-coding technique, its analysis from the point of view of information
theory is missing. This paper provides such an information-theoretic analysis
of data deduplication. It introduces a new source model adapted to the
deduplication setting. It formalizes the two standard fixed-length and
variable-length deduplication schemes, and it introduces a novel multi-chunk
deduplication scheme. It then provides an analysis of these three deduplication
variants, emphasizing the importance of boundary synchronization between source
blocks and deduplication chunks. In particular, under fairly mild assumptions,
the proposed multi-chunk deduplication scheme is shown to be order optimal.Comment: 27 page
A tensor network study of the complete ground state phase diagram of the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the square lattice
Using infinite projected entangled pair states, we study the ground state
phase diagram of the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the square
lattice directly in the thermodynamic limit. We find an unexpected partially
nematic partially magnetic phase in between the antiferroquadrupolar and
ferromagnetic regions. Furthermore, we describe all observed phases and discuss
the nature of the phase transitions involved.Comment: 27 pages, 15 figures; v3: adjusted sections 1 and 3, and added a
paragraph to section 5.2.
Emergent Haldane phase in the bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the square lattice
Infinite projected entangled pair states simulations of the
bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the square lattice reveal an emergent
Haldane phase in between the previously predicted antiferromagnetic and
3-sublattice 120 magnetically ordered phases. This intermediate phase
preserves SU(2) spin and translational symmetry but breaks lattice rotational
symmetry, and it can be adiabatically connected to the Haldane phase of
decoupled chains. Our results contradict previous studies which found a
direct transition between the two magnetically ordered states.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, plus supplemental materia
The Approximate Capacity of the Gaussian N-Relay Diamond Network
We consider the Gaussian "diamond" or parallel relay network, in which a
source node transmits a message to a destination node with the help of N
relays. Even for the symmetric setting, in which the channel gains to the
relays are identical and the channel gains from the relays are identical, the
capacity of this channel is unknown in general. The best known capacity
approximation is up to an additive gap of order N bits and up to a
multiplicative gap of order N^2, with both gaps independent of the channel
gains.
In this paper, we approximate the capacity of the symmetric Gaussian N-relay
diamond network up to an additive gap of 1.8 bits and up to a multiplicative
gap of a factor 14. Both gaps are independent of the channel gains and, unlike
the best previously known result, are also independent of the number of relays
N in the network. Achievability is based on bursty amplify-and-forward, showing
that this simple scheme is uniformly approximately optimal, both in the
low-rate as well as in the high-rate regimes. The upper bound on capacity is
based on a careful evaluation of the cut-set bound. We also present
approximation results for the asymmetric Gaussian N-relay diamond network. In
particular, we show that bursty amplify-and-forward combined with optimal relay
selection achieves a rate within a factor O(log^4(N)) of capacity with
pre-constant in the order notation independent of the channel gains.Comment: 23 pages, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theor
A ground state study of the spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice using tensor networks
Making use of infinite projected entangled pair states, we investigate the
ground state phase diagram of the nearest-neighbor spin-1 bilinear-biquadratic
Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice. In agreement with previous studies,
we find the ferromagnetic, 120 degree magnetically ordered, ferroquadrupolar
and antiferroquadrupolar phases, and confirm that all corresponding phase
transitions are first order. Moreover, we provide an accurate estimate of the
location of the ferroquadrupolar to 120 degree magnetically ordered phase
transition, thereby fully establishing the phase diagram. Also, we do not
encounter any signs of the existence of a quantum paramagnetic phase. In
particular, contrary to the equivalent square lattice model, we demonstrate
that on the triangular lattice the one-dimensional Haldane phase does not reach
all the way up to the two-dimensional limit. Finally, we investigate the
possibility of an intermediate partially-magnetic partially-quadrupolar phase
close to , and we show that, also contrary to the square
lattice case, this phase is not present on the triangular lattice.Comment: 14 pages, 15 figures; v2: shortened section II.B and added a
paragraph to section IV.
Tracking Stopping Times Through Noisy Observations
A novel quickest detection setting is proposed which is a generalization of
the well-known Bayesian change-point detection model. Suppose
\{(X_i,Y_i)\}_{i\geq 1} is a sequence of pairs of random variables, and that S
is a stopping time with respect to \{X_i\}_{i\geq 1}. The problem is to find a
stopping time T with respect to \{Y_i\}_{i\geq 1} that optimally tracks S, in
the sense that T minimizes the expected reaction delay E(T-S)^+, while keeping
the false-alarm probability P(T<S) below a given threshold \alpha \in [0,1].
This problem formulation applies in several areas, such as in communication,
detection, forecasting, and quality control.
Our results relate to the situation where the X_i's and Y_i's take values in
finite alphabets and where S is bounded by some positive integer \kappa. By
using elementary methods based on the analysis of the tree structure of
stopping times, we exhibit an algorithm that computes the optimal average
reaction delays for all \alpha \in [0,1], and constructs the associated optimal
stopping times T. Under certain conditions on \{(X_i,Y_i)\}_{i\geq 1} and S,
the algorithm running time is polynomial in \kappa.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figures, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Information
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