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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

We give simplify the proofs of the 2 results in Marius Zimand's paper "Kolmogorov complexity version of Slepian-Wolf coding, proceedings of STOC 2017, p22--32". The first is a universal polynomial time compression algorithm: on input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Bruno Bauwens

Due to the substantial scale of Large Language Models (LLMs), the direct application of conventional compression methodologies proves impractical. The computational demands associated with even minimal gradient updates present challenges,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Arnav Chavan , Nahush Lele , Deepak Gupta

We present RCT, a new compact data structure to represent trajectories of objects. It is based on a relative compression technique called Relative Lempel-Ziv (RLZ), which compresses sequences by applying an LZ77 encoding with respect to an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Nieves R. Brisaboa , Travis Gagie , Adrián Gómez-Brandón , Gonzalo Navarro , José R. Paramá

As nowadays Machine Learning (ML) techniques are generating huge data collections, the problem of how to efficiently engineer their storage and operations is becoming of paramount importance. In this article we propose a new lossless…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Paolo Ferragina , Travis Gagie , Dominik Köppl , Giovanni Manzini , Gonzalo Navarro , Manuel Striani , Francesco Tosoni

The Longest Common Substring (LCS) and Longest Palindromic Substring (LPS) are classical problems in computer science, representing fundamental challenges in string processing. Both problems can be solved in linear time using a classical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Domenico Cantone , Simone Faro , Arianna Pavone , Caterina Viola

We show that the Longest Common Prefix Array of a text collection of total size n on alphabet [1, {\sigma}] can be computed from the Burrows-Wheeler transformed collection in O(n log {\sigma}) time using o(n log {\sigma}) bits of working…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Nicola Prezza , Giovanna Rosone

Despite their ubiquity in NLP tasks, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks suffer from computational inefficiencies caused by inherent unparallelizable recurrences, which further aggravates as LSTMs require more parameters for larger…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Genta Indra Winata , Andrea Madotto , Jamin Shin , Elham J. Barezi , Pascale Fung

Leveraging large language models (LLMs) for complex natural language tasks typically requires long-form prompts to convey detailed requirements and information, which results in increased memory usage and inference costs. To mitigate these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zongqian Li , Yinhong Liu , Yixuan Su , Nigel Collier

The paper introduces a new lossless, highly robust compression algorithm that similar with LZW algorithm, yet the algorithm discards dictionary processing and uses irregular sequences with massive, random information instead. Then the paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Rui Zhu

Large language models (LLMs) have been applied in various applications due to their astonishing capabilities. With advancements in technologies such as chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting and in-context learning (ICL), the prompts fed to LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Huiqiang Jiang , Qianhui Wu , Chin-Yew Lin , Yuqing Yang , Lili Qiu

In this paper we present a really simple linear-time algorithm constructing a context-free grammar of size O(g log (N/g)) for the input string, where N is the size of the input string and g the size of the optimal grammar generating this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-19 Artur Jeż

We show that the compressed suffix array and the compressed suffix tree for a string of length $n$ over an integer alphabet of size $\sigma\leq n$ can both be built in $O(n)$ (randomized) time using only $O(n\log\sigma)$ bits of working…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Djamal Belazzougui

We describe the first self-indexes able to count and locate pattern occurrences in optimal time within a space bounded by the size of the most popular dictionary compressors. To achieve this result we combine several recent findings,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Anders Roy Christiansen , Mikko Berggren Ettienne , Tomasz Kociumaka , Gonzalo Navarro , Nicola Prezza

In grammar-based compression a string is represented by a context-free grammar, also called a straight-line program (SLP), that generates only that string. We refine a recent balancing result stating that one can transform an SLP of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Moses Ganardi

We show that the compressed suffix array and the compressed suffix tree of a string $T$ can be built in $O(n)$ deterministic time using $O(n\log\sigma)$ bits of space, where $n$ is the string length and $\sigma$ is the alphabet size.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 J. Ian Munro , Gonzalo Navarro , Yakov Nekrich

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant performance gains using advanced prompting techniques over various tasks. However, the increasing length of prompts leads to high computational costs and often obscures crucial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Eunseong Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Minjin Choi , June Park , Jongwuk Lee

A compressed self-index stores a string in compressed form while supporting locate queries without decompression. For highly repetitive strings (arising in web crawls, versioned documents, and genomic collections), static self-indexes can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Takaaki Nishimoto , Yasuo Tabei

The random access problem for compressed strings is to build a data structure that efficiently supports accessing the character in position $i$ of a string given in compressed form. Given a grammar of size $n$ compressing a string of size…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Patrick Hagge Cording

In this work, we study the limits of compressed data structures, i.e., structures that support various queries on an input text $T\in\Sigma^n$ using space proportional to the size of $T$ in compressed form. Nearly all fundamental queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Dominik Kempa , Tomasz Kociumaka