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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…

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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Rossano Venturini

Learning-based probabilistic models can be combined with an entropy coder for data compression. However, due to the high complexity of learning-based models, their practical application as text compressors has been largely overlooked. To…

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Retrieving documents and prepending them in-context at inference time improves performance of language model (LMs) on a wide range of tasks. However, these documents, often spanning hundreds of words, make inference substantially more…

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The definition of $k^{th}$-order empirical entropy of strings is extended to node labelled binary trees. A suitable binary encoding of tree straight-line programs (that have been used for grammar-based tree compression before) is shown to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Danny Hucke , Markus Lohrey , Louisa Seelbach Benkner

We extend Ziv and Lempel's model of finite-state encoders to the realm of lossy compression of individual sequences. In particular, the model of the encoder includes a finite-state reconstruction codebook followed by an information lossless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Neri Merhav

We consider string matching with variable length gaps. Given a string $T$ and a pattern $P$ consisting of strings separated by variable length gaps (arbitrary strings of length in a specified range), the problem is to find all ending…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-14 Philip Bille , Inge Li Goertz , Hjalte Wedel Vildhøj , David Kofoed Wind

The compression-complexity trade-off of lossy compression algorithms that are based on a random codebook or a random database is examined. Motivated, in part, by recent results of Gupta-Verd\'{u}-Weissman (GVW) and their underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-23 Chris Gioran , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Text generation tasks, including translation, summarization, language models, and etc. see rapid growth during recent years. Despite the remarkable achievements, the repetition problem has been observed in nearly all text generation models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zihao Fu , Wai Lam , Anthony Man-Cho So , Bei Shi

We consider the problem of optimally compressing and caching data across a communication network. Given the data generated at edge nodes and a routing path, our goal is to determine the optimal data compression ratios and caching decisions…

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We revisit classic string problems considered in the area of parameterized complexity, and study them through the lens of dynamic data structures. That is, instead of asking for a static algorithm that solves the given instance efficiently,…

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The unrestricted LZ78 universal data-compression algorithm (as well as the LZ77 and LZW versions) achieves asymptotically, as the block-length tends to infinity, the FS compressibility, namely the best compression-ratio that may be achieved…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Jacob Ziv

Today's probabilistic language generators fall short when it comes to producing coherent and fluent text despite the fact that the underlying models perform well under standard metrics, e.g., perplexity. This discrepancy has puzzled the…

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Many string processing problems can be phrased in the streaming setting, where the input arrives symbol by symbol and we have sublinear working space. The area of streaming algorithms for string processing has flourished since the seminal…

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Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional capabilities in various scenarios. However, they suffer from much redundant information and are sensitive to the position of key information in long context scenarios. To address these…

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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

In this paper, we compare various methods to compress a text using a neural model. We find that extracting tokens as latent variables significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art discrete latent variable models such as VQ-VAE.…

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Min-entropy sampling gives a bound on the min-entropy of a randomly chosen subset of a string, given a bound on the min-entropy of the whole string. K\"onig and Renner showed a min-entropy sampling theorem that holds relative to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-18 Jürg Wullschleger

In this paper, a fully compressed pattern matching problem is studied. The compression is represented by straight-line programs (SLPs), i.e. a context-free grammars generating exactly one string; the term fully means that both the pattern…

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