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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
May. 18, 2023
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lucas Theis, London, GB;
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of encoding data includes determining, by an encoder, a first data instance by corrupting the data with Gaussian noise. The method also includes determining, by the encoder, information representative of one or more conditional distributions. The method additionally includes determining, by the encoder, an index of a corrupted data instance of the sequence of progressively less corrupted data instances. The index corresponds with a conditional distribution of the one or more conditional distributions which causes the corrupted data instance to have a desired bit-rate. The method further includes transmitting, from the encoder to a decoder, the first data instance and the information representative of the one or more conditional distributions to enable the decoder to recover the corrupted data instance having the desired bit-rate and use the corrupted data instance to generate output data representative of the data.