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Marlin is a Variable-to-Fixed (VF) codec optimized for high decoding speed through the use of small sized dictionaries that fit in the L1 cache of most CPUs. While the size of Marlin dictionaries is adequate for decoding, they are still too…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Manuel Martinez , Joan Serra-Sagristà

Large-alphabet strings are common in scenarios such as information retrieval and natural-language processing. The efficient storage and processing of such strings usually introduces several challenges that are not witnessed in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Diego Arroyuelo , Gabriel Carmona , Héctor Larrañaga , Francisco Riveros , Carlos Eugenio Rojas-Morales , Erick Sepúlveda

We introduce a simple and efficient lossless image compression algorithm. We store a low resolution version of an image as raw pixels, followed by several iterations of lossless super-resolution. For lossless super-resolution, we predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-07 Sheng Cao , Chao-Yuan Wu , Philipp Krähenbühl

Nowadays, with the rapid development of the Internet, the era of big data has come. The Internet generates huge amounts of data every day. However, extracting meaningful information from massive data is like looking for a needle in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Xinhong Chen , Wensheng Gan , Shicheng Wan , Tianlong Gu

We study the problem of compressing a source sequence in the presence of side-information that is related to the source via insertions, deletions and substitutions. We propose a simple algorithm to compress the source sequence when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Nan Ma , Kannan Ramchandran , David Tse

A maximal repetition, or run, in a string, is a maximal periodic substring whose smallest period is at most half the length of the substring. In this paper, we consider runs that correspond to a path on a trie, or in other words, on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Ryo Sugahara , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

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

This paper performs the analysis necessary to bound the running time of known, efficient algorithms for generating all longest common subsequences. That is, we bound the running time as a function of input size for algorithms with time…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ronald I. Greenberg

Relative entropy coding (REC) algorithms encode a random sample following a target distribution $Q$, using a coding distribution $P$ shared between the sender and receiver. Sadly, general REC algorithms suffer from prohibitive encoding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jiajun He , Gergely Flamich , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

We present CREST (Compact Retrieval-Based Speculative Decoding), a redesign of REST that allows it to be effectively "compacted". REST is a drafting technique for speculative decoding based on retrieving exact n-gram matches of the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Sophia Ho , Jinsol Park , Patrick Wang

In this paper we consider the problem of encoding data into \textit{repeat-free} sequences in which sequences are imposed to contain any $k$-tuple at most once (for predefined $k$). First, the capacity of the repeat-free constraint are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Ohad Elishco , Ryan Gabrys , Eitan Yaakobi , Muriel Médard

Enumerating characteristic substrings (e.g., maximal repeats, minimal unique substrings, and minimal absent words) in a given string has been an important research topic because there are a wide variety of applications in various areas such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Takaaki Nishimoto , Yasuo Tabei

Longest Run Subsequence is a problem introduced recently in the context of the scaffolding phase of genome assembly (Schrinner et al., WABI 2020). The problem asks for a maximum length subsequence of a given string that contains at most one…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Riccardo Dondi , Florian Sikora

Segmentation of a text-document into lines, words and characters, which is considered to be the crucial pre-processing stage in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is traditionally carried out on uncompressed documents, although most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Mohammed Javed , P. Nagabhushan , B. B. Chaudhuri

While achieving a compression ratio of 2.0 bits/base, the new algorithm codes non-N bases in fixed length. It dramatically reduces the time of coding and decoding than previous DNA compression algorithms and some universal compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Jie Liu , Sheng Bao , Zhiqiang Jing , Shi Chen

The widespread use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering has intensified the need for improved model and resource efficiency. In particular, for neural code generation, LLMs are used to translate function/method signature…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Guang Yang , Yu Zhou , Wei Cheng , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiang Chen , Terry Yue Zhuo , Ke Liu , Xin Zhou , David Lo , Taolue Chen

Computing problems that handle large amounts of data necessitate the use of lossless data compression for efficient storage and transmission. We present a novel lossless universal data compression algorithm that uses parallel computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nikhil Krishnan , Dror Baron

The past few years have witnessed increasing interests in applying deep learning to video compression. However, the existing approaches compress a video frame with only a few number of reference frames, which limits their ability to fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Ren Yang , Fabian Mentzer , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

A range of recent works addresses the problem of compression of sequence of tokens into a shorter sequence of real-valued vectors to be used as inputs instead of token embeddings or key-value cache. These approaches are focused on reduction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yuri Kuratov , Mikhail Arkhipov , Aydar Bulatov , Mikhail Burtsev

Consider the case where consecutive blocks of N letters of a semi-infinite individual sequence X over a finite-alphabet are being compressed into binary sequences by some one-to-one mapping. No a-priori information about X is available at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Jacob Ziv