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Given a set of discrete probability distributions, the minimum entropy coupling is the minimum entropy joint distribution that has the input distributions as its marginals. This has immediate relevance to tasks such as entropic causal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Spencer Compton , Dmitriy Katz , Benjamin Qi , Kristjan Greenewald , Murat Kocaoglu

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

The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) provides a powerful and flexible means of encoding and exchanging data. As it turns out, its main advantage as an encoding format (namely, its requirement that all open and close markup tags are present…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Gregory Leighton , Denilson Barbosa

We consider the number of occurrences of subwords (non-consecutive sub-sequences) in a given word. We first define the notion of subword entropy of a given word that measures the maximal number of occurrences among all possible subwords. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Wenjie Fang

Wordle presents an algorithmically rich testbed for constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) solving. While existing solvers rely on information-theoretic entropy maximization or frequency-based heuristics without formal constraint treatment,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jahidul Arafat , Fariha Tasmin , Sanjaya Poudel

We propose a new iterative greedy algorithm for reconstructions of sparse signals with or without noisy perturbations in compressed sensing. The proposed algorithm, called \emph{subspace thresholding pursuit} (STP) in this paper, is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Chao-Bing Song , Shu-Tao Xia , Xin-Ji Liu

We investigate how to measure and define the entropy of a simple chaotic system, three hard spheres on a ring. A novel approach is presented, which does not assume the ergodic hypothesis. It consists of transforming the particles collision…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Matej Vedak , Graeme J Ackland

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

Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary word reflects both algorithmic structure and the empirical distribution of symbols appearing in the word. Words with symbol frequencies far from one half have smaller combinatorial richness and…

Computation · Statistics 2025-12-25 Brani Vidakovic

In this work, we study two types of constraints on two-dimensional binary arrays. In particular, given $p,\epsilon>0$, we study (i) The $p$-bounded constraint: a binary vector of size $m$ is said to be $p$-bounded if its weight is at most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Han Mao Kiah , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink , Yeow Meng Chee

Non-uniquely decodable codes can be defined as the codes that cannot be uniquely decoded without additional disambiguation information. These are mainly the class of non-prefix-free codes, where a codeword can be a prefix of other(s), and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-14 M. Oğuzhan Külekci , Yasin Öztürk , Elif Altunok , Can Altıniğne

Entropy Estimation is an important problem with many applications in cryptography, statistic,machine learning. Although the estimators optimal with respect to the sample complexity have beenrecently developed, there are still some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Maciej Skorski

Classification is a machine learning method used in many practical applications: text mining, handwritten character recognition, face recognition, pattern classification, scene labeling, computer vision, natural langage processing. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Doulaye Dembélé

Encoding data structures store enough information to answer the queries they are meant to support but not enough to recover their underlying datasets. In this paper we give the first encoding data structure for the challenging problem of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Travis Gagie , Giovanni Manzini , Rossano Venturini

Maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding can be used to obtain the optimal performance of error correction codes. However, the size of the search space and consequently the decoding complexity grows exponentially, making it impractical to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Mohammad Rowshan , Jinhong Yuan

Despite strong performance on a variety of tasks, neural sequence models trained with maximum likelihood have been shown to exhibit issues such as length bias and degenerate repetition. We study the related issue of receiving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Sean Welleck , Ilia Kulikov , Jaedeok Kim , Richard Yuanzhe Pang , Kyunghyun Cho

Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) is a popular algorithm used for tokenizing data in NLP, despite being devised initially as a compression method. BPE appears to be a greedy algorithm at face value, but the underlying optimization problem that BPE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Vilém Zouhar , Clara Meister , Juan Luis Gastaldi , Li Du , Tim Vieira , Mrinmaya Sachan , Ryan Cotterell

In-context learning has established itself as an important learning paradigm for Large Language Models (LLMs). In this paper, we demonstrate that LLMs can learn encoding keys in-context and perform analysis directly on encoded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Andresa Rodrigues de Campos , David Lee , Imry Kissos , Piyush Paritosh

The sparse matrix compression problem asks for a one-dimensional representation of a binary $n \times \ell$ matrix, formed by an integer array of row indices and a shift function for each row, such that accessing a matrix entry is possible…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Vincent Jugé , Dominik Köppl , Vincent Limouzy , Andrea Marino , Jannik Olblich , Giulia Punzi , Takeaki Uno

We discuss algorithms for estimating the Shannon entropy h of finite symbol sequences with long range correlations. In particular, we consider algorithms which estimate h from the code lengths produced by some compression algorithm. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-24 Thomas Schürmann , Peter Grassberger