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Robert Underwood

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Preprint Aug 2026

TOPIQ: Statistical Error Propagation for Quantity-of-Interest Prediction under Lossy Compression

Lossy compression is essential for managing massive scientific data, but per-element error bounds do not translate into bounds on downstream quantities of interest (QoIs) such as regional averages, neural network predictions, or multi-field derived quantities. We present TOPIQ, a statistical error-propagation framework that predicts QoI-level bias and uncertainty from compact compression metadata (less than 0.1% of original data). TOPIQ decomposes QoIs into primitive operators with closed-form propagation rules accounting for spatial error correlation and data-error coupling; new QoIs are supported by composition at runtime with no per-QoI derivation or retraining. Across 552 evaluations spanning 4 datasets, 3 compressors, 4 QoI families, and 8 error bounds, 93.1% of configurations achieve well-calibrated predictions. Pre-computed metadata enables post-hoc uncertainty quantification for arbitrary query regions at 56x-402x speedup over direct computation. A case study demonstrates integration into an AI-driven analysis pipeline with end-to-end confidence intervals for dynamically composed queries.

You-Yuan Liu, Bo Jiang, Taolue Yang et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Jul 2026

TZ: Achieving High-Ratio Scientific Data Compression on GPUs with Global Data Decomposition

Evaluation on production-scale scientific datasets demonstrates that TZ achieves approximately 10 × higher compression ratios than state-of-the-art GPU compressors under the same error bound, while maintaining competitive, high-throughput performance.

Zhuoxun Yang, Ruoyu Li, A. Subrahmanya et al. · 0 citations
Book Jul 2026

Bridging Information Theory and Practice for Scientific Lossy Compression

This paper develops a novel framework that characterizes compressibility limits for scientific datasets under realistic tiling constraints, and is the first framework to rigorously characterize lossy compressibility limits for scientific datasets and compressor, moving beyond classical asymptotic 1D source models.

Sujata Sinha, Sheng Di, Vishwas Rao et al. · 0 citations
Book Open access Jul 2026

OPAL: On-demand Progressive Accelerated Scientific Lossy Compression

The OPAL universal framework is the OPAL universal framework, an adaptive architecture that endows generic lossy compressors with on-demand retrieval capabilities, enabling flexible and progressive access across multiple spatial regions, resolutions, and precisions.

Longtao Zhang, Ruoyu Li, Zhuoxun Yang et al. · 2 citations

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