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Pattern matching is the most central task for text indices. Most recent indices leverage compression techniques to make pattern matching feasible for massive but highly-compressible datasets. Within this kind of indices, we propose a new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Tooru Akagi , Dominik Köppl , Yuto Nakashima , Shunsuke Inenaga , Hideo Bannai , Masayuki Takeda

We study entropy-bounded computational geometry, that is, geometric algorithms whose running times depend on a given measure of the input entropy. Specifically, we introduce a measure that we call range-partition entropy, which unifies and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-29 David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Abraham M. Illickan , Claire A. To

String matching is the problem of deciding whether a given $n$-bit string contains a given $k$-bit pattern. We study the complexity of this problem in three settings. Communication complexity. For small $k$, we provide near-optimal upper…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Alexander Golovnev , Mika Göös , Daniel Reichman , Igor Shinkar

State-of-the-art language generation models can degenerate when applied to open-ended generation problems such as text completion, story generation, or dialog modeling. This degeneration usually shows up in the form of incoherence, lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Kushal Arora , Timothy J. O'Donnell , Doina Precup , Jason Weston , Jackie C. K. Cheung

We present new lower and upper bounds for the compression rate of binary prefix codes optimized over memoryless sources according to two related exponential codeword length objectives. The objectives explored here are exponential-average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Michael B. Baer

In this work we introduce a new linear time compression algorithm, called "Re-pair for Trees", which compresses ranked ordered trees using linear straight-line context-free tree grammars. Such grammars generalize straight-line context-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Markus Lohrey , Sebastian Maneth , Roy Mennicke

We describe a grammar for DNA sequencing reads from which we can compute the BWT directly. Our motivation is to perform in succinct space genomic analyses that require complex string queries not yet supported by repetition-based…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Diego Díaz-Domínguez , Gonzalo Navarro

How can we compress language models without sacrificing accuracy? The number of compression algorithms for language models is rapidly growing to benefit from remarkable advances of recent language models without side effects due to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Seungcheol Park , Jaehyeon Choi , Sojin Lee , U Kang

Maximization of an expensive, unimodal function under random observations has been an important problem in hyperparameter tuning. It features expensive function evaluations (which means small budgets) and a high level of noise. We develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-23 Xiaohe Luo , Warren B. Powell

Strategic term rewriting and attribute grammars are two powerful programming techniques widely used in language engineering. The former, relies on strategies to apply term rewrite rules in defining language transformations, while the latter…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-22 José Nuno Macedo , Marcos Viera , João Saraiva

Hypergraphs provide a natural representation for many-to-many relationships in data-intensive applications, yet their scalability is often hindered by high memory consumption. While prior work has improved computational efficiency, reducing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tianyu Zhao , Dongfang Zhao , Luanzheng Guo , Nathan Tallent

This paper describes a new method of data encoding which may be used in various modern digital, computer and telecommunication systems and devices. The method permits the compression of data for storage or transmission, allowing the exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-01-27 Igor Nesiolovskiy , Artem Nesiolovskiy

The current state-of-the-art task-oriented semantic parsing models use BERT or RoBERTa as pretrained encoders; these models have huge memory footprints. This poses a challenge to their deployment for voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Prafull Prakash , Saurabh Kumar Shashidhar , Wenlong Zhao , Subendhu Rongali , Haidar Khan , Michael Kayser

We propose a general framework for neural network compression that is motivated by the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle. For that we first derive an expression for the entropy of a neural network, which measures its complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Simon Wiedemann , Arturo Marban , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

This paper focuses on the ultimate limit theory of image compression. It proves that for an image source, there exists a coding method with shapes that can achieve the entropy rate under a certain condition where the shape-pixel ratio in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Gangtao Xin , Pingyi Fan , Khaled B. Letaief

We revisit tree compression with top trees (Bille et al, ICALP'13) and present several improvements to the compressor and its analysis. By significantly reducing the amount of information stored and guiding the compression step using a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Lorenz Hübschle-Schneider , Rajeev Raman

Setcover greedy algorithm is a natural approximation algorithm for test set problem. This paper gives a precise and tighter analysis of performance guarantee of this algorithm. The author improves the performance guarantee $2\ln n$ which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Peng Cui

Can we use machine learning to compress graph data? The absence of ordering in graphs poses a significant challenge to conventional compression algorithms, limiting their attainable gains as well as their ability to discover relevant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Giorgos Bouritsas , Andreas Loukas , Nikolaos Karalias , Michael M. Bronstein

Compressed sensing (CS) is a technique which uses fewer measurements than dictated by the Nyquist sampling theorem. The traditional CS with linear measurements achieves efficient recovery performances, but it suffers from the large bit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Ching-Lun Tai , Sung-Hsien Hsieh , Chun-Shien Lu

In neural machine translation (NMT), it is has become standard to translate using subword units to allow for an open vocabulary and improve accuracy on infrequent words. Byte-pair encoding (BPE) and its variants are the predominant approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Elizabeth Salesky , Andrew Runge , Alex Coda , Jan Niehues , Graham Neubig