Universal Randomized Guessing Subject to Distortion

Asaf Cohen, Neri Merhav

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Abstract

Consider the problem of guessing a sequence subject to a distortion constraint. Specifically, assume the following game between Alice and Bob: Alice has a sequence x of length n. Bob wishes to guess x, yet he is satisfied with finding any sequence x which is within a given distortion D from x. Thus, he successively submits queries to Alice, until receiving an affirmative answer, stating that his guess was within the required distortion. Finding guessing strategies which minimize the number of guesses and analyzing its properties has applications in information security, source and channel coding. Guessing subject to a distortion constraint is especially useful when considering biometrically-secured systems, where the "password"which protects the data is not a single, fixed vector but rather a ball of feature vectors centered at some x, and any feature vector within the ball results in acceptance. We formally define the guessing problem under distortion in four different setups: memoryless sources, guessing through a noisy channel, sources with memory, and individual sequences. We suggest a randomized guessing strategy which is asymptotically optimal for all setups and is five-fold universal, as it is independent of the source statistics, the channel, the moment to be optimized, the distortion measure and the distortion level.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages3345-3350
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665421591
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2022
Event2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022 - Espoo, Finland
Duration: 26 Jun 20221 Jul 2022

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
Volume2022-June
ISSN (Print)2157-8095

Conference

Conference2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2022
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityEspoo
Period26/06/221/07/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Information Systems
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • Applied Mathematics

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