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Based on the concept of many-letter theory, an observable is defined measuring the raw quantum information content of single messages. A general characterization of quantum codes using the Kraus representation is given. Compression codes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kim J. Bostroem

Semantic communication stands out as a highly promising avenue for future developments in communications. Theoretically, source compression coding based on semantics can achieve lower rates than Shannon entropy. This paper introduces a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jin Xu , Kai Niu , Zijian Liang , Ping Zhang

The Run Length Encoding (RLE) compression method is a long standing simple lossless compression scheme which is easy to implement and achieves a good compression on input data which contains repeating consecutive symbols. In its pure form…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Sven Fiergolla , Petra Wolf

This paper proposes a novel entropy encoding technique for lossless data compression. Representing a message string by its lexicographic index in the permutations of its symbols results in a compressed version matching Shannon entropy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Abu Bakar Siddique

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

In this paper, we introduce OBHS (Optimized Block Huffman Scheme), a novel lossless audio compression algorithm tailored for real-time streaming applications. OBHS leverages block-wise Huffman coding with canonical code representation and…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Muntahi Safwan Mahfi , Md. Manzurul Hasan , Gahangir Hossain

We study the following one-way asymmetric transmission problem, also a variant of model-based compressed sensing: a resource-limited encoder has to report a small set $S$ from a universe of $N$ items to a more powerful decoder (server). The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Alexandr Andoni , Javad Ghaderi , Daniel Hsu , Dan Rubenstein , Omri Weinstein

The modern data compression is mainly based on two approaches to entropy coding: Huffman (HC) and arithmetic/range coding (AC). The former is much faster, but approximates probabilities with powers of 2, usually leading to relatively low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Jarek Duda

In this paper, we revisit the classical data compression problem for domain specific texts. It is well-known that classical Huffman algorithm is optimal with respect to prefix encoding and the compression is done at character level. Since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-04 K. Ilambharathi , G. S. N. V. Venkata Manik , N. Sadagopan , B. Sivaselvan

Given a probability distribution over a set of n words to be transmitted, the Huffman Coding problem is to find a minimal-cost prefix free code for transmitting those words. The basic Huffman coding problem can be solved in O(n log n) time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-09-29 Mordecai Golin , Xiaoming Xu , Jiajin Yu

We introduce a new variant of variable-length source coding for sending a source over two parallel channels, one of which is costly and the other free. We give a complete solution to this problem. Next, we relate the problem to the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Niloufar Ahmadypour , Amin Gohari

In order to compress quantum messages without loss of information it is necessary to allow the length of the encoded messages to vary. We develop a general framework for variable-length quantum messages in close analogy to the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kim Bostroem , Timo Felbinger

We present a systematic study of quantum system compression for the evolution of generic many-body problems. The necessary numerical simulations of such systems are seriously hindered by the exponential growth of the Hilbert space dimension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Robert L. Kosut , Tak-San Ho , Herschel Rabitz

A quantum computer directly manipulates information stored in the state of quantum mechanical systems. The available operations have many attractive features but also underly severe restrictions, which complicate the design of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Sos S. Agaian , Andreas Klappenecker

There is a class of entropy-coding methods which do not substitute symbols by code words (such as Huffman coding), but operate on intervals or ranges. This class includes three prominent members: conventional arithmetic coding, range…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Tilo Strutz , Nico Schreiber

We give a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the generalization of Huffman Coding in which codeword letters have non-uniform costs (as in Morse code, where the dash is twice as long as the dot). The algorithm computes a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Mordecai Golin , Claire Mathieu , Neal E. Young

Adaptive variable-length codes associate a variable-length codeword to the symbol being encoded depending on the previous symbols in the input string. This class of codes has been recently presented in [Dragos Trinca, arXiv:cs.DS/0505007]…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dragos Trinca

Graphs have been extensively used to represent data from various domains. In the era of Big Data, information is being generated at a fast pace, and analyzing the same is a challenge. Various methods have been proposed to speed up the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Rushabh Jitendrakumar Shah

We introduce a high-dimensional quantum encoding based on coherent mode-dependent single-photon subtraction from multimode squeezed states. This encoding can be seen as a generalization to the case of non-zero squeezing of the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Francesco Arzani , Alessandro Ferraro , Valentina Parigi

Quantum convolutional coding is a technique for encoding a stream of quantum information before transmitting it over a noisy quantum channel. Two important goals in the design of quantum convolutional encoders are to minimize the memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-21 Monireh Houshmand , Saied Hosseini-Khayat , Mark M. Wilde