Universal A Posteriori Metrics Game

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2010-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/1004.4815v1

Computer Science

Information Theory

5 pages, 1 figure, submitted to ITW 2010

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Over binary input channels, uniform distribution is a universal prior, in the sense that it allows to maximize the worst case mutual information over all binary input channels, ensuring at least 94.2% of the capacity. In this paper, we address a similar question, but with respect to a universal generalized linear decoder. We look for the best collection of finitely many a posteriori metrics, to maximize the worst case mismatched mutual information achieved by decoding with these metrics (instead of an optimal decoder such as the Maximum Likelihood (ML) tuned to the true channel). It is shown that for binary input and output channels, two metrics suffice to actually achieve the same performance as an optimal decoder. In particular, this implies that there exist a decoder which is generalized linear and achieves at least 94.2% of the compound capacity on any compound set, without the knowledge of the underlying set.

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