Presentation 2021-03-05
Improvement of Cicalese-Gargano-Vaccaro Algorithm for the Minimum-Entropy Couplings Problem
Kohei Sakatani, Ken-ichi Iwata, Hiroshi Fujisaki,
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Abstract(in English) Minimum-Entropy coupling is a problem of finding a joint probability distribution of minimum entropy from the set of joint probability distributions with probability distributions PX and PY as marginals when P_X and P_Y are given. Minimum-Entropy coupling is also a problem finding a joint probability distribution of maximum mutual information I(X;Y) between X and Y. The optimization is an NP-hard problem, and Cicalese, Gargano, Vaccaro proposed an efficient approximation algorithm. This paper describes to evaluate and improve their algorithm.
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Keyword(in English) Minimum-Entropy Couplings / approximation algorithm / performance evaluation
Paper # IT2020-151,ISEC2020-81,WBS2020-70
Date of Issue 2021-02-25 (IT, ISEC, WBS)

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Committee WBS / IT / ISEC
Conference Date 2021/3/4(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Joint Meeting of WBS, IT, and ISEC
Chair Masanori Hamamura(Kochi Univ. of Tech.) / Tadashi Wadayama(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Shoichi Hirose(Univ. of Fukui)
Vice Chair Takashi Shono(INTEL) / Masahiro Fujii(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Tetsuya Kojima(Tokyo Kosen) / Tetsuya Izu(Fujitsu Labs.) / Noboru Kunihiro(Tsukuba Univ.)
Secretary Takashi Shono(Okayama Univ. of Science) / Masahiro Fujii(National Defence Academy) / Tetsuya Kojima(Yamaguchi Univ.) / Tetsuya Izu(Saga Univ.) / Noboru Kunihiro(Tsukuba Univ.)
Assistant Duong Quang Thang(NAIST) / Masafumi Moriyama(NICT) / Masayuki Kinoshita(Chiba Univ. of Tech.) / Takahiro Ohta(Senshu Univ.) / Kazuki Yoneyama(Ibaraki Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Wideband System / Technical Committee on Information Theory / Technical Committee on Information Security
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Improvement of Cicalese-Gargano-Vaccaro Algorithm for the Minimum-Entropy Couplings Problem
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Minimum-Entropy Couplings
Keyword(2) approximation algorithm
Keyword(3) performance evaluation
1st Author's Name Kohei Sakatani
1st Author's Affiliation University of Fkui(Univ. of Fukui)
2nd Author's Name Ken-ichi Iwata
2nd Author's Affiliation University of Fkui(Univ. of Fukui)
3rd Author's Name Hiroshi Fujisaki
3rd Author's Affiliation Kanazwa University(Kanazawa Univ.)
Date 2021-03-05
Paper # IT2020-151,ISEC2020-81,WBS2020-70
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) IT-410,ISEC-411,WBS-412
Page pp.pp.239-244(IT), pp.239-244(ISEC), pp.239-244(WBS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-02-25 (IT, ISEC, WBS)