arXiv:2602.03505cs.ITcs.AI2026-02

面对编码器与真实分布不匹配时,解码器通过生成式修正实现更优重建。

Generative Decompression: Optimal Lossy Decoding Against Distribution Mismatch

  • 解码端采用条件期望的生成式修正,适应固定编码器约束
  • 在高斯源和语义分类任务中接近联合优化基准性能
  • 适合通信系统中无法修改编码器的场景

本文研究了压缩编码器设计假设分布与实际源分布不匹配时的最优解码策略。在标准化通信系统中,解码器可获取编码器不可见的真实分布侧信息。我们形式化定义了不匹配量化问题,证明最优重建规则——生成式解压,即在真实分布下对量化索引进行条件期望,并适配固定编码器约束。该策略在解码端实现生成式贝叶斯校正,严格优于传统质心规则。扩展至噪声信道传输,推导出鲁棒软解码规则,量化了标准源-信道分离架构在不匹配下的效率损失。进一步推广至任务导向解码,发现最优策略从条件均值估计转为最大后验检测。高斯源与深度学习语义分类实验表明,生成式解压能关闭绝大部分与理想联合优化基准的性能差距,实现无需修改编码器的自适应高保真重建。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper addresses optimal decoding strategies in lossy compression where the assumed distribution for compressor design mismatches the actual (true) distribution of the source. This problem has immediate relevance in standardized communication systems where the decoder acquires side information or priors about the true distribution that are unavailable to the fixed encoder. We formally define the mismatched quantization problem, demonstrating that the optimal reconstruction rule, termed generative decompression, aligns with classical Bayesian estimation by taking the conditional expectation under the true distribution given the quantization indices and adapting it to fixed-encoder constraints. This strategy effectively performs a generative Bayesian correction on the decoder side, strictly outperforming the conventional centroid rule. We extend this framework to transmission over noisy channels, deriving a robust soft-decoding rule that quantifies the inefficiency of standard modular source--channel separation architectures under mismatch. Furthermore, we generalize the approach to task-oriented decoding, showing that the optimal strategy shifts from conditional mean estimation to maximum a posteriori (MAP) detection. Experimental results on Gaussian sources and deep-learning-based semantic classification demonstrate that generative decompression closes a vast majority of the performance gap to the ideal joint-optimization benchmark, enabling adaptive, high-fidelity reconstruction without modifying the encoder.

压缩解码生成模型分布不匹配贝叶斯推理

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