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Compression techniques that support fast random access are a core component of any information system. Current state-of-the-art methods group documents into fixed-sized blocks and compress each block with a general-purpose adaptive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Christopher Hoobin , Simon J. Puglisi , Justin Zobel

In-context learning has established itself as an important learning paradigm for Large Language Models (LLMs). In this paper, we demonstrate that LLMs can learn encoding keys in-context and perform analysis directly on encoded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Andresa Rodrigues de Campos , David Lee , Imry Kissos , Piyush Paritosh

We consider the problem of decompressing the Lempel--Ziv 77 representation of a string $S$ of length $n$ using a working space as close as possible to the size $z$ of the input. The folklore solution for the problem runs in $O(n)$ time but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Philip Bille , Mikko Berggren Ettienne , Travis Gagie , Inge Li Gørtz , Nicola Prezza

Lossless data compression has been widely studied in computer science. One of the most widely used lossless data compressions is Lempel-Zip(LZ) 77 parsing, which achieves a high compression ratio. Bidirectional (a.k.a. macro) parsing is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Takaaki Nishimoto , Yasuo Tabei

Domains like bioinformatics, version control systems, collaborative editing systems (wiki), and others, are producing huge data collections that are very repetitive. That is, there are few differences between the elements of the collection.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-12-21 Sebastian Kreft , Gonzalo Navarro

We propose a novel, lightweight supervised dictionary learning framework for text classification based on data compression and representation. This two-phase algorithm initially employs the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) algorithm to construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Li Wan , Tansu Alpcan , Margreta Kuijper , Emanuele Viterbo

The Lempel-Ziv universal coding scheme is asymptotically optimal for the class of all stationary ergodic sources. A problem of robustness of this property under small violations of ergodicity is studied. A notion of deficiency of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-30 V. V. V'yugin

This article gives a self-contained analysis of the performance of the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm on (hidden) Markovian sources. Specifically we include a full proof of the assertion that the compression rate approaches the entropy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Madhu Sudan , David Xiang

Random sequences attain the highest entropy rate. The estimation of entropy rate for an ergodic source can be done using the Lempel Ziv complexity measure yet, the exact entropy rate value is only reached in the infinite limit. We prove…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-05 E. Estevez-Rams , R. Lora Serrano , B. Aragón Fernández , I. Brito Reyes

The problem of determining the best achievable performance of arbitrary lossless compression algorithms is examined, when correlated side information is available at both the encoder and decoder. For arbitrary source-side information pairs,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

We propose algorithms computing the semi-greedy Lempel-Ziv 78 (LZ78), the Lempel-Ziv Double (LZD), and the Lempel-Ziv-Miller-Wegman (LZMW) factorizations in linear time for integer alphabets. For LZD and LZMW, we additionally propose data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Dominik Köppl

Data compression algorithms are generally perceived as being of interest for data communication and storage purposes only. However, their use in the field of data classification and analysis is also of equal importance. Automatic data…

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

We propose a universal ensemble for random selection of rate-distortion codes, which is asymptotically optimal in a sample-wise sense. According to this ensemble, each reproduction vector, $\hbx$, is selected independently at random under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Neri Merhav

Variable-length compression without prefix-free constraints and with side-information available at both encoder and decoder is considered. Instead of requiring the code to be error-free, we allow for it to have a non-vanishing error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Yuta Sakai , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We propose a new representation of the offsets of the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) factorization based on the co-lexicographic order of the processed prefixes. The selected offsets tend to approach the k-th order empirical entropy. Our evaluations show…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Dominik Köppl , Gonzalo Navarro , Nicola Prezza

The pressing need for eficient compression schemes for XML documents has recently been focused on stack computation [6, 9], and in particular calls for a formulation of information-lossless stack or pushdown compressors that allows a formal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-09-17 Pilar Albert , Elvira Mayordomo , Philippe Moser , Sylvain Perifel

We extend the study by Ornstein and Weiss on the asymptotic behavior of the normalized version of recurrence times and establish the large deviation property for a certain class of mixing processes. Further, an estimator for entropy based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Siddharth Jain , Rakesh Kumar Bansal

We define an algorithm that parses multidimensional arrays sequentially into mainly unrepeated but nested multidimensional sub-arrays of increasing size, and show that the resulting sub-block pointer encoder compresses almost every…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Tyll Krueger , Guido Montufar , Ruedi Seiler , Rainer Siegmund-Schultze

We derive upper and lower bounds on the overall compression ratio of the 1978 Lempel-Ziv (LZ78) algorithm, applied independently to $k$-blocks of a finite individual sequence. Both bounds are given in terms of normalized empirical entropies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Neri Merhav