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PhD position at IMT Atlantique : Information Theory for Machine

Learning over Compressed Data


PhD position at IMT Atlantique, Brest, France. Expected starting date: fall 2024.
Advisors:
- Elsa Dupraz, IMT Atlantique (elsa.dupraz@imt-atlantique.fr),
- Philippe Mary, INSA Rennes (philippe.mary@insa-rennes.fr)

Context
Joint a dynamic research team focused on exploring the interplay between Machine Learning and
Information Theory. Our research lab is situated within IMT Atlantique, one of French’s top
engineering schools, nestled in the vibrant city of Brest - a hub of academia, culture, and maritime
heritage, often referred to as the 'end of the earth' and a land of storms.
This opportunity arises from a collaborative effort between IMT Atlantique and INSA Rennes. As a
PhD student based in Brest, you will have the advantage of being part of a stimulating and
interdisciplinary academic environment, with regular visits to our partner institution in Rennes.

Motivation of the PhD


In the emerging field of "goal-oriented communications" [1], the aim of the receiver is no longer to
reconstruct data, but instead to perform a specific learning task (classification, decision-making,
semantic analysis, etc.) on the received data. To significantly improve transmission efficiency, it is
essential to address this task and its specific performance criteria when designing the
communication system.
Such an approach is even more critical today as the amount of data available online is huge: every
minute, 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, and 240,000 images are sent on Facebook.
Therefore, it is essential to resort to advanced learning methods to process the data, sort it, or
recommend it to users.
In this PhD, we will aim to consider the common case of a storage server containing a large amount
of compressed multimedia data (images, video, etc.), issued, for example, from a social network.
The goal of the PhD will be to design compression systems dedicated to learning tasks to be
applied on the coded data. We will focus particularly on unsupervised learning tasks, i.e., those for
which no labels are available for learning. These labels can indeed be difficult to obtain in such a
context.
Challenges to be addressed during the PhD
A strategy that would involve decompressing all the data before performing the learning task
would be extremely costly in terms of computational resources. Therefore, during the PhD, we will
first aim to address the following question:
Question 1 (no prior decoding): Is it possible to encode the data in such a way as to be able to
perform the learning task without any prior decoding operation?
Furthermore, most of the time, the learning task that will be performed later is not known at the
time of data compression. Therefore, we also target to study a second question:
Question 2 (universality): Is it possible to design a universal coding scheme, i.e., one that would
enable the application of different learning tasks (regression, classification, etc.) on the same
compressed data?
A coding scheme that meets the constraints of the two previous questions might result in a loss of
performance compared to learning after decompression. To characterize this loss, which we hope
will be limited, a first step will involve an information theory analysis [2], [3], [4], to determine the
achievable performance limits of coding systems dedicated to a particular learning task. This
analysis will take into account the aforementioned constraints and should allow for a comparison
with learning after decompression. Furthermore, the information theory analysis should provide
useful insights and design tools for a second step, which will involve the development of practical
coding schemes for the identified problems.

Candidates Profile
The candidate should have earned an MSc degree, or equivalent, in one of the following fields:
Telecommunications, Signal Processing, Applied Mathematics. Some knowledge about Information
Theory and/or Machine Learning would also be appreciated.

How to apply
Application should contain: a full CV, complete academic records (from Bachelor to Msc), as well as
contact details of one or two referees (former internship advisor, etc.). No need to include a
motivation letter, but please explain in a few words in the e-mail why you apply for the position,
and why you think your background is relevant. Please send your application to Elsa Dupraz
(elsa.dupraz@imt-atlantique.fr) and Philippe Mary (philippe.mary@insa-rennes.fr).

References
[1] E. C. Strinati and S. Barbarossa, “6g networks: Beyond shannon towards semantic and goal-oriented
communications,”Computer Networks, vol. 190, p. 107930, 2021.
[2] Y. Blau and T. Michaeli, “The perception-distortion tradeoff,” in Proceedings of the IEEE conference on
computer vision and pattern recognition, 2018, pp. 6228–6237.
[3] P. A. Stavrou and M. Kountouris, “A rate distortion approach to goal-oriented communication,” in IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)., 2022, pp. 590–595
[4] Jiahui Wei, Philippe Mary, Elsa Dupraz, Rate-Loss Regions for Polynomial Regression with Side
Information, in International Zurich Seminar (IZS) 2024.

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