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The problem of compression in standard information theory consists of assigning codes as short as possible to numbers. Here we consider the problem of optimal coding -- under an arbitrary coding scheme -- and show that it predicts Zipf's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho , Christian Bentz , Caio Seguin

There is a large literature devoted to the problem of finding an optimal (min-cost) prefix-free code with an unequal letter-cost encoding alphabet of size. While there is no known polynomial time algorithm for solving it optimally there are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mordecai Golin , Li Jian

This thesis concerns sequential-access data compression, i.e., by algorithms that read the input one or more times from beginning to end. In one chapter we consider adaptive prefix coding, for which we must read the input character by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-03 Travis Gagie

Efficient optimal prefix coding has long been accomplished via the Huffman algorithm. However, there is still room for improvement and exploration regarding variants of the Huffman problem. Length-limited Huffman coding, useful for many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Michael B. Baer

We give the first algorithm for adaptive alphabetic prefix-free coding that is worst-case optimal in terms of time and compression when $\sigma \in o \left( \frac{n^{1 / 2}}{\log n} \right)$, where $\sigma$ is the size of the alphabet and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Travis Gagie

Most of the attention in statistical compression is given to the space used by the compressed sequence, a problem completely solved with optimal prefix codes. However, in many applications, the storage space used to represent the prefix…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Travis Gagie , Gonzalo Navarro , Yakov Nekrich , Alberto Ordóñez

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 article shows that any type of binary data can be defined as a collection from codewords of variable length. This feature helps us to define an Injective and surjective function from the suggested codewords to the required codewords.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Parviz Gharehbagheri , Sayeed Hamid Haji Sayeed Javadi , Parvaneh Asghari , Naser Gharehbagheri

This paper proposes a novel entropy encoding technique for lossless data compression. Representing a message string by its lexicographic index in the permutations of its symbols results in a compressed version matching Shannon entropy of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Abu Bakar Siddique

Text compression schemes and compact data structures usually combine sophisticated probability models with basic coding methods whose average codeword length closely match the entropy of known distributions. In the frequent case where basic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-02 N. Jesper Larsson

There is a class of entropy-coding methods which do not substitute symbols by code words (such as Huffman coding), but operate on intervals or ranges. This class includes three prominent members: conventional arithmetic coding, range…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Tilo Strutz , Nico Schreiber

Semantic communication stands out as a highly promising avenue for future developments in communications. Theoretically, source compression coding based on semantics can achieve lower rates than Shannon entropy. This paper introduces a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jin Xu , Kai Niu , Zijian Liang , Ping Zhang

Huffman Compression, also known as Huffman Coding, is one of many compression techniques in use today. The two important features of Huffman coding are instantaneousness that is the codes can be interpreted as soon as they are received and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-22 A. S. Tolba , M. Z. Rashad , M. A. El-Dosuky

A new method for constructing minimum-redundancy binary prefix codes is described. Our method does not explicitly build a Huffman tree; instead it uses a property of optimal prefix codes to compute the codeword lengths corresponding to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Ahmed Belal , Amr Elmasry

The short message service (SMS) is a wireless medium of transmission that allows you to send brief text messages. Cell phone devices have an uttermost SMS capacity of 1,120 bits in the traditional system. Moreover, the conventional SMS…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Pranta Sarker , Mir Lutfur Rahman

The compression is an important topic in computer science which allows we to storage more amount of data on our data storage. There are several techniques to compress any file. In this manuscript will be described the most important…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Pasquale De Luca , Vincenzo Maria Russiello , Raffaele Ciro Sannino , Lorenzo Valente

A finite deterministic (semi)automaton $\mathcal{A} =(Q,\Sigma,\delta)$ is $k$-compressible if there is some word $w\in \Sigma^+$ such that the image of its state set $Q$ under the natural action of $w$ is reduced by at least $k$ states.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-17 Alessandra Cherubini , Achille Frigeri , Zuhua Liu

Training and serving Large Language Models (LLMs) relies heavily on parallelization and collective operations, which are frequently bottlenecked by network bandwidth. Lossless compression using e.g., Huffman codes can alleviate the issue,…

We propose a method to improve traditional character-based PPM text compression algorithms. Consider a text file as a sequence of alternating words and non-words, the basic idea of our algorithm is to encode non-words and prefixes of words…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Yichuan Hu , Jianzhong , Zhang , Farooq Khan , Ying Li

Zipf's law of abbreviation, namely the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, has been viewed as a manifestation of compression, i.e. the minimization of the length of forms -- a universal principle of natural communication.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Sonia Petrini , Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz , Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell , Mengxue Wang , Christian Bentz , Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho