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Today there are many universal compression algorithms, but in most cases is for specific data better using specific algorithm - JPEG for images, MPEG for movies, etc. For textual documents there are special methods based on PPM algorithm or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Jan Platos , Jiri Dvorsky

This paper studies the use of a traffic optimization technique named TCM (Tunneling, Compressing and Multiplexing) to reduce the bandwidth of MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games), which employ TCP to provide a soft…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Jose Saldana , Luis Sequeira , Julian Fernandez-Navajas , Jose Ruiz-Mas

Tokenization efficiency plays a critical role in the performance and cost of large language models (LLMs), yet most models rely on static tokenizers optimized on general-purpose corpora. These tokenizers' fixed vocabularies often fail to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Saibo Geng , Nathan Ranchin , Yunzhen yao , Maxime Peyrard , Chris Wendler , Michael Gastpar , Robert West

Huffman compression is a statistical, lossless, data compression algorithm that compresses data by assigning variable length codes to symbols, with the more frequently appearing symbols given shorter codes than the less. This work is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-11 R. L. Cloud , M. L. Curry , H. L. Ward , A. Skjellum , P. Bangalore

Data compression has become a necessity not only the in the field of communication but also in various scientific experiments. The data that is being received is more and the processing time required has also become more. A significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Gautam R , S Murali

Compression algorithms reduce the redundancy in data representation to decrease the storage required for that data. Data compression offers an attractive approach to reducing communication costs by using available bandwidth effectively.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 B. S. Shajee Mohan , V. K. Govindan

The paper proposes an improved error-resilient Lempel-Ziv'77 (LZ'77) algorithm employing an adaptive amount of parity bits for error protection. It is a modified version of error resilient algorithm LZRS'77, proposed recently, which uses a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-04-21 Tomaz Korosec , Saso Tomazic

Learning, prediction, and compression are intimately connected: a model that accurately predicts the next symbol in a sequence can be coupled with a source coder to compress that sequence near its information-theoretic limit. When tokenized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Vishnu Teja Kunde , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jamison Ebert

Today, with the growing demands of information storage and data transfer, data compression is becoming increasingly important. Data Compression is a technique which is used to decrease the size of data. This is very useful when some huge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Mohammad Hosseini

In data storage and transmission, file compression is a common technique for reducing the volume of data, reducing data storage space and transmission time and bandwidth. However, there are significant differences in the compression…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Han Yang , Guangjun Qin , Yongqing Hu

We present a framework facilitating the implementation and comparison of text compression algorithms. We evaluate its features by a case study on two novel compression algorithms based on the Lempel-Ziv compression schemes that perform well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Patrick Dinklage , Johannes Fischer , Dominik Köppl , Marvin Löbel , Kunihiko Sadakane

Neural networks are both computationally intensive and memory intensive, making them difficult to deploy on embedded systems with limited hardware resources. To address this limitation, we introduce "deep compression", a three stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Song Han , Huizi Mao , William J. Dally

Data compression continues to evolve, with traditional information theory methods being widely used for compressing text, images, and videos. Recently, there has been growing interest in leveraging Generative AI for predictive compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Swathi Shree Narashiman , Nitin Chandrachoodan

We raise the question of approximating the compressibility of a string with respect to a fixed compression scheme, in sublinear time. We study this question in detail for two popular lossless compression schemes: run-length encoding (RLE)…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-06-11 Sofya Raskhodnikova , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Adam Smith

At the present scenario of the internet, there exist many optimization techniques to improve the Web speed but almost expensive in terms of bandwidth. So after a long investigation on different techniques to compress the data without any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Hemant Kumar Saini , Satpal Singh Kushwaha , C. Rama Krishna

In the paper, we proposed a novel algorithm dedicated to adaptive video streaming based on HTTP. The algorithm employs a hybrid play-out strategy which combines two popular approaches: an estimation of network bandwidth and a control of a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Arkadiusz Biernacki

The majority of online content is written in languages other than English, and is most commonly encoded in UTF-8, the world's dominant Unicode character encoding. Traditional compression algorithms typically operate on individual bytes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-17 Adam Gleave , Christian Steinruecken

We consider the enciphering of a data stream while being compressed by a LZ algorithm. This has to be compared to the classical encryption after compression methods used in security protocols. Actually, most cryptanalysis techniques exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-07-22 Bruno Martin

Network appliances continue to offer novel opportunities to offload processing from computing nodes directly into the data plane. One popular concern of network operators and their customers is to move data increasingly faster. A common…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Sébastien Vaucher , Niloofar Yazdani , Pascal Felber , Daniel E. Lucani , Valerio Schiavoni

In this report, we investigate the potential use of large language models (LLM's) in the task of data compression. Previous works have demonstrated promising results in applying LLM's towards compressing not only text, but also a wide range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Chen-Han Tsai
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