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Given a string $S$, the \emph{compressed indexing problem} is to preprocess $S$ into a compressed representation that supports fast \emph{substring queries}. The goal is to use little space relative to the compressed size of $S$ while…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Philip Bille , Mikko Berggren Ettienne , Inge Li Gørtz , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj

The ability to process ultra-long contexts is crucial for large language models (LLMs) to perform long-horizon tasks. While recent efforts have extended context windows to 1M and beyond, model performance degrades when sequence length…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Simin Huo

It is well known that lossless compression of a discrete memoryless source with near-uniform encoder output is possible at a rate above its entropy if and only if the encoder is randomized. This work focuses on deriving conditions for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Badri N Vellambi , Joerg Kliewer , Matthieu Bloch

Internal Pattern Matching (IPM) queries on a text $T$, given two fragments $X$ and $Y$ of $T$ such that $|Y|<2|X|$, ask to compute all exact occurrences of $X$ within $Y$. IPM queries have been introduced by Kociumaka, Radoszewski, Rytter,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Anouk Duyster , Tomasz Kociumaka

In this paper we compare the difference in performance of two of the Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) family of compressors (PPM$^*$ and the original Bounded PPM algorithm) and the Lempel-Ziv 78 (LZ) algorithm. We construct an infinite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Liam Jordon , Philippe Moser

The long-tailed distribution of sequence lengths in LLM serving and reinforcement learning (RL) sampling causes significant computational waste due to excessive padding in batched inference. Existing methods rely on auxiliary models for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Huanyi Xie , Yubin Chen , Liangyu Wang , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

Much research has been devoted to optimizing algorithms of the Lempel-Ziv (LZ) 77 family, both in terms of speed and memory requirements. Binary search trees and suffix trees (ST) are data structures that have been often used for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Artur Ferreira , Arlindo Oliveira , Mario Figueiredo

We study the approximate string matching and regular expression matching problem for the case when the text to be searched is compressed with the Ziv-Lempel adaptive dictionary compression schemes. We present a time-space trade-off that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Philip Bille , Rolf Fagerberg , Inge Li Goertz

Approximation of entropies of various types using machine learning (ML) regression methods are shown for the first time. The ML models presented in this study define the complexity of the short time series by approximating dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrei Velichko , Maksim Belyaev , Matthias P. Wagner , Alireza Taravat

Recent reasoning Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable problem-solving abilities but often generate long thinking traces whose utility is unclear. Our work aims to improve their efficiency, enabling them to reach high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiang Liu , Xuming Hu , Xiaowen Chu , Eunsol Choi

This paper proves that a wide class of local search algorithms extend as is to the fully dynamic setting with an adaptive adversary, achieving an amortized $\tilde{O}(1)$ number of local-search steps per update. A breakthrough by Moser…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Bernhard Haeupler , Slobodan Mitrović , Srikkanth Ramachandran , Wen-Horng Sheu , Robert Tarjan

We consider the Maximum-weight Matching (MWM) problem in the streaming sliding window model of computation. In this model, the input consists of a sequence of weighted edges on a given vertex set $V$ of size $n$. The objective is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Cezar-Mihail Alexandru , Pavel Dvořák , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu

We present a new on-line algorithm for computing the Lempel-Ziv factorization of a string that runs in $O(N\log N)$ time and uses only $O(N\log\sigma)$ bits of working space, where $N$ is the length of the string and $\sigma$ is the size of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-05-28 Jun'ichi Yamamoto , Tomohiro I , Hideo Bannai , Shunsuke Inenaga , Masayuki Takeda

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess a theoretical capability to model information density far beyond the limits of classical statistical methods (e.g., Lempel-Ziv). However, utilizing this capability for lossless compression involves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Marcus Armstrong , ZiWei Qiu , Huy Q. Vo , Arjun Mukherjee

Physics concepts have often been borrowed and independently developed by other fields of science. In this perspective a significant example is that of entropy in Information Theory. The aim of this paper is to provide a short and…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Baronchelli , Emanuele Caglioti , Vittorio Loreto

The LZ-End parsing [Kreft & Navarro, 2011] of an input string yields compression competitive with the popular Lempel-Ziv 77 scheme, but also allows for efficient random access. Kempa and Kosolobov showed that the parsing can be computed in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Patrick Dinklage

We study the problem of zero-delay coding for the transmission of a Markov source over a noisy channel with feedback and present a reinforcement learning solution which is guaranteed to achieve near-optimality. To this end, we formulate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Liam Cregg , Fady Alajaji , Serdar Yuksel

This paper investigates the problem of variable-length lossy source coding allowing a positive excess distortion probability and an overflow probability of codeword lengths. Novel one-shot achievability and converse bounds of the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Shota Saito , Hideki Yagi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

The weakly asymmetric exclusion process (WASEP) in one dimension is a paradigmatic system of interacting particles described by the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT) in the presence of driving. We consider an initial condition with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-20 Alexandre Krajenbrink , Pierre Le Doussal

In this paper, we use linear codes to study zero-error Slepian-Wolf coding of a set of sources with deviation symmetry, where the sources are generalization of the Hamming sources over an arbitrary field. We extend our previous codes,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-06 Rick Ma , Samuel Cheng