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In this paper, we consider the problem of constructing optimal average-length binary codes under the constraint that each codeword must contain at most $D$ ones, where $D$ is a given input parameter. We provide an $O(n^2D)$-time complexity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Roberto Bruno , Roberto De Prisco , Ugo Vaccaro

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

Zero-error single-channel source coding has been studied extensively over the past decades. Its natural multi-channel generalization is however not well investigated. While the special case with multiple symmetric-alphabet channels was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hoover H. F. Yin , Xishi Wang , Ka Hei Ng , Russell W. F. Lai , Lucien K. L. Ng , Jack P. K. Ma

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

Binary AIFV codes are lossless codes that generalize the class of instantaneous FV codes. The code uses two code trees and assigns source symbols to incomplete internal nodes as well as to leaves. AIFV codes are empirically shown to attain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Weihua Hu , Hirosuke Yamamoto , Junya Honda

For the discrete memoryless sources with a countably infinite alphabet, we prove that for any positive integer $k$, there exists a corresponding probability interval such that if the largest symbol probability $p_{1}$ falls in this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hongyang Liu , Wei Yan

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,…

Let $P = \{p(i)\}$ be a measure of strictly positive probabilities on the set of nonnegative integers. Although the countable number of inputs prevents usage of the Huffman algorithm, there are nontrivial $P$ for which known methods find a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Michael B. Baer

A strategy for computing upper code-length limits of AC Huffman codes for an 8x8 block in JPEG Baseline coding is developed. The method is based on a geometric interpretation of the DCT, and the calculated limits are as close as 14% to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-21 Kenichi Horie

A text written using symbols from a given alphabet can be compressed using the Huffman code, which minimizes the length of the encoded text. It is necessary, however, to employ a text-specific codebook, i.e. the symbol-codeword dictionary,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Armen E. Allahverdyan , Andranik Khachatryan

We investigate two source coding problems with secrecy constraints. In the first problem we consider real--time fully secure transmission of a memoryless source. We show that although classical variable--rate coding is not an option since…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Yonatan Kaspi , Neri Merhav

Let $P = \{p(i)\}$ be a measure of strictly positive probabilities on the set of nonnegative integers. Although the countable number of inputs prevents usage of the Huffman algorithm, there are nontrivial $P$ for which known methods find a…

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

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

Learning, prediction, and compression are intimately connected: a model that accurately predicts the next symbol in a sequence can be coupled with a source coder to compress that sequence near its information-theoretic limit. When tokenized…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Vishnu Teja Kunde , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jamison Ebert

A skeleton Huffman tree is a Huffman tree in which all disjoint maximal perfect subtrees are shrunk into leaves. Skeleton Huffman trees, besides saving storage space, are also used for faster decoding and for speeding up Huffman-shaped…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Dmitry Kosolobov , Oleg Merkurev

Huffman coding is well known to be useful in certain decision problems involving minimizing the average number of (freely chosen) queries to determine an unknown random variable. However, in problems where the queries are more constrained,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shuyuan Zhang , Jichen Sun , Shengkang Chen

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

In Index coding there is a single sender with multiple messages and multiple receivers each wanting a different set of messages and knowing a different set of messages a priori. The Index Coding problem is to identify the minimum number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Kavitha. R , B. Sundar Rajan

Describes a near-linear-time algorithm for a variant of Huffman coding, in which the letters may have non-uniform lengths (as in Morse code), but with the restriction that each word to be encoded has equal probability. [See also ``Huffman…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Mordecai Golin , Neal E. Young

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