Aaron D. Wyner and Jacob Ziv (1976), IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 22(1):1–10 — DOI-10.1109/TIT.1976.1055508
Key takeaways
Filed, not read: no lawful full text was reached (see the history note). Crossref deposits no abstract. Known here by what it is standardly cited for: the Wyner–Ziv theorem, a single-letter formula for the minimum rate of lossy coding of a source when correlated side information is available at the decoder only, using an auxiliary variable and binning; in general this rate exceeds the conditional rate-distortion function, in which the encoder also sees the side information, with equality for jointly Gaussian sources under squared error. Cover & Thomas, LIT-765, treat it as §15.9, “Rate Distortion with Side Information” (p. 580 of the second edition, after §15.8 on lossless source coding with side information), as its publicly posted table of contents shows; that book is not read either.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 at the owner’s request, as one of the works in the reference list of the owner’s working manuscript (October 2026) that the record did not yet hold. See the curation entry of that day.