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We propose two extensions to existing importance sampling based methods for lossy compression. First, we introduce an importance sampling based compression scheme that is a variant of ordered random coding (Theis and Ahmed, 2022) and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Buu Phan , Ashish Khisti , Christos Louizos

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

Lempel-Ziv-Double (LZD) is a variation of the LZ78 compression scheme that achieves better compression on repetitive datasets. Nevertheless, prior research has identified computational inefficiencies and a weakness in its compressibility…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Linus Götz , Dominik Köppl

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

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

We present a simple adaptation of the Lempel Ziv 78' (LZ78) compression scheme ({\em IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1978}) that supports efficient random access to the input string. Namely, given query access to the compressed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Akashnil Dutta , Reut Levi , Dana Ron , Ronitt Rubinfeld

At the present scenario of the internet, there exist many optimization techniques to improve the Web speed but almost expensive in terms of bandwidth. So after a long investigation on different techniques to compress the data without any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Hemant Kumar Saini , Satpal Singh Kushwaha , C. Rama Krishna

Lempel-Ziv (LZ77 or, briefly, LZ) is one of the most effective and widely-used compressors for repetitive texts. However, the existing efficient methods computing the exact LZ parsing have to use linear or close to linear space to index the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Dmitry Kosolobov , Daniel Valenzuela , Gonzalo Navarro , Simon J. Puglisi

Simple and fast decoding is one of the main advantages of LZ77-type text encoding used in many popular file compressors such as gzip and 7zip. With the recent introduction of external memory algorithms for Lempel-Ziv factorization there is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Djamal Belazzougui , Juha Kärkkäinen , Dominik Kempa , Simon J. Puglisi

This paper investigates the benefits of the side information on the universal compression of sequences from a mixture of $K$ parametric sources. The output sequence of the mixture source is chosen from the source $i \in \{1,\ldots ,K\}$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Ahmad Beirami , Liling Huang , Mohsen Sardari , Faramarz Fekri

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

Data compression continues to evolve, with traditional information theory methods being widely used for compressing text, images, and videos. Recently, there has been growing interest in leveraging Generative AI for predictive compression…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Swathi Shree Narashiman , Nitin Chandrachoodan

The Lempel-Ziv parsing of a string (LZ77 for short) is one of the most important and widely-used algorithmic tools in data compression and string processing. We show that the Lempel-Ziv parsing of a string of length $n$ on an alphabet of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Djamal Belazzougui , Simon J. Puglisi

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

Mauer et al. [A Lempel-Ziv-style Compression Method for Repetitive Texts, PSC 2017] proposed a hybrid text compression method called LZ-LFS which has both features of Lempel-Ziv 77 factorization and longest first substitution. They showed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Akihiro Nishi , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

Compression algorithms reduce the redundancy in data representation to decrease the storage required for that data. Data compression offers an attractive approach to reducing communication costs by using available bandwidth effectively.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 B. S. Shajee Mohan , V. K. Govindan

We propose and study a family of universal sequential probability assignments on individual sequences, based on the incremental parsing procedure of the Lempel-Ziv (LZ78) compression algorithm. We show that the normalized log loss under any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Naomi Sagan , Tsachy Weissman

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 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 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