A nearly tight memory-redundancy trade-off for one-pass compression
Information Theory
2007-08-15 v1 math.IT
Abstract
Let be a string of length over an alphabet of constant size and let and be constants with (1 \geq c \geq 0) and (\epsilon > 0). Using (O (n)) time, (O (n^c)) bits of memory and one pass we can always encode in (n H_k (s) + O (\sigma^k n^{1 - c + \epsilon})) bits for all integers (k \geq 0) simultaneously. On the other hand, even with unlimited time, using (O (n^c)) bits of memory and one pass we cannot always encode in (O (n H_k (s) + \sigma^k n^{1 - c - \epsilon})) bits for, e.g., (k = \lceil (c + \epsilon / 2) \log_\sigma n \rceil).
Cite
@article{arxiv.0708.1877,
title = {A nearly tight memory-redundancy trade-off for one-pass compression},
author = {Travis Gagie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1877},
year = {2007}
}