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In this work, we explore the interplay between information and computation in non-linear transform-based compression for broad classes of modern information-processing tasks. We first investigate two emerging nonlinear data transformation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Connor Ding , Abhiram Rao Gorle , Jiwon Jeong , Naomi Sagan , Tsachy Weissman

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

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

This paper investigates the size in bits of the LZ77 encoding, which is the most popular and efficient variant of the Lempel-Ziv encodings used in data compression. We prove that, for a wide natural class of variable-length encoders for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Dmitry Kosolobov

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

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

The rapid growth of digital data has heightened the demand for efficient lossless compression methods. However, existing algorithms exhibit trade-offs: some achieve high compression ratios, others excel in encoding or decoding speed, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Md. Atiqur Rahman , MM Fazle Rabbi

The deployment of modern network applications is increasing the network size and traffic volumes at an unprecedented pace. Storing network-related information (e.g., traffic traces) is key to enable efficient network management. However,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Paul Almasan , Krzysztof Rusek , Shihan Xiao , Xiang Shi , Xiangle Cheng , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Pere Barlet-Ros

Data used for analytics and machine learning often take the form of tables with categorical entries. We introduce a family of lossless compression algorithms for such data that proceed in four steps: $(i)$ Estimate latent variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Andrea Montanari , Eric Weiner

Graph compression is a data analysis technique that consists in the replacement of parts of a graph by more general structural patterns in order to reduce its description length. It notably provides interesting exploration tools for the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Robin Lamarche-Perrin

Compression refers to encoding data using bits, so that the representation uses as few bits as possible. Compression could be lossless: i.e. encoded data can be recovered exactly from its representation) or lossy where the data is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Narayana Santhanam , Dharmendra Modha

Many services today massively and continuously produce log files of different and varying formats. These logs are important since they contain information about the application activities, which is necessary for improvements by analyzing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Igor Cherepanov , Jonathan Geraldi Joewono , Arjan Kuijper , Jörn Kohlhammer

Suppose there is a large file which should be transmitted (or stored) and there are several (say, m) admissible data-compressors. It seems natural to try all the compressors and then choose the best, i.e. the one that gives the shortest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Boris Ryabko

We introduce the first self-index based on the Lempel-Ziv 1977 compression format (LZ77). It is particularly competitive for highly repetitive text collections such as sequence databases of genomes of related species, software repositories,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-24 Sebastian Kreft , Gonzalo Navarro

In the modern era, large volumes of data are being produced continuously, especially in domain-specific fields such as medical records and clinical files, defence logs and HTML-based web traffic. Data with such volume and complexity needs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Anurag Kumar Ojha

Research techniques in the last decade have improved lossless compression ratios by significantly increasing processing time. These techniques have remained obscure because production systems require high throughput and low resource…

LLM-powered agents often use prompt compression to reduce inference costs, but this introduces a new security risk. Compression modules, which are optimized for efficiency rather than safety, can be manipulated by adversarial inputs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zesen Liu , Zhixiang Zhang , Yuchong Xie , Dongdong She

Traditional lossless text compression preserves every byte, but its gains on natural language are often modest in realistic operating regimes. We study \emph{lossy semantic text compression}, where the encoder strategically deletes parts of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuchun Zou , Junhong Tong , Jun Li

This paper investigates, from information theoretic grounds, a learning problem based on the principle that any regularity in a given dataset can be exploited to extract compact features from data, i.e., using fewer bits than needed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-14 Matías Vera , Leonardo Rey Vega , Pablo Piantanida

Modern in-memory databases are typically used for high-performance workloads, therefore they have to be optimized for small memory footprint and high query speed at the same time. Data compression has the potential to reduce memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Marcell Fehér , Daniel E. Lucani , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou