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Combinatorial designs provide an interesting source of optimization problems. Among them, permutation codes are particularly interesting given their applications in powerline communications, flash memories, and block ciphers. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek , Domagoj Jakobovic , Marko Djurasevic , Alberto Leporati

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 consider universal variable-to-fixed length compression of memoryless sources with a fidelity criterion. We design a dictionary codebook over the reproduction alphabet which is used to parse the source stream. Once a source subsequence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Nematollah Iri

Graphs have been extensively used to represent data from various domains. In the era of Big Data, information is being generated at a fast pace, and analyzing the same is a challenge. Various methods have been proposed to speed up the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Rushabh Jitendrakumar Shah

This paper proposes a new lossless data compression coding scheme named an asymmetric encoding-decoding scheme (AEDS), which can be considered as a generalization of tANS (tabled variant of asymmetric numeral systems). In the AEDS, a data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Hirosuke Yamamoto , Ken-ichi Iwata

In this paper, we study the problem of designing prefix-free encoding schemes having minimum average code length that can be decoded efficiently under a decode cost model that captures memory hierarchy induced cost functions. We also study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shashwat Banchhor , Rishikesh Gajjala , Yogish Sabharwal , Sandeep Sen

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

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,…

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

Given the importance of the claim, we want to start by exposing the following consideration: this claim comes out more than a year after the article "Practical applications of Set Shaping Theory in Huffman coding" which reports the program…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Aida Koch , Alix Petit , Christian Schmidt , Adrain Vdberg , Logan Lewis

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing, but their ability to process long sequences is fundamentally limited by the context window size during training. Existing length extrapolation methods often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Nitin Vetcha

A common complaint about adaptive prefix coding is that it is much slower than static prefix coding. Karpinski and Nekrich recently took an important step towards resolving this: they gave an adaptive Shannon coding algorithm that encodes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Travis Gagie , Yakov Nekrich

We study the new problem of Huffman-like codes subject to individual restrictions on the code-word lengths of a subset of the source words. These are prefix codes with minimal expected code-word length for a random source where additionally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Paul M. B. Vitanyi , Zvi Lotker

For a given independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) source, Huffman code achieves the optimal average codeword length in the class of instantaneous code with a single code table. However, it is known that there exist time-variant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Kengo Hashimoto , Ken-ichi Iwata

Data compression has become a necessity not only the in the field of communication but also in various scientific experiments. The data that is being received is more and the processing time required has also become more. A significant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Gautam R , S Murali

We propose a novel algorithm for quantizing continuous latent representations in trained models. Our approach applies to deep probabilistic models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), and enables both data and model compression. Unlike…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Yibo Yang , Robert Bamler , Stephan Mandt

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are increasingly being applied to code-related tasks. Although PLMs have achieved good results, they do not take into account potential high-order data correlations within the code. We propose three types…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Guang Yang , Yujie Zhu

The transmission or storage of signals typically involves data compression. The final processing step in compression systems is generally an entropy coding stage, which converts symbols into a bit stream based on their probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tilo Strutz , Roman Rischke

A loss-less compression technique is proposed which uses a variable length Region formation technique to divide the input file into a number of variable length regions. Huffman codes are obtained for entire file after formation of regions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Utpal Nandi , Jyotsna Kumar Mandal

We study the following one-way asymmetric transmission problem, also a variant of model-based compressed sensing: a resource-limited encoder has to report a small set $S$ from a universe of $N$ items to a more powerful decoder (server). The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Alexandr Andoni , Javad Ghaderi , Daniel Hsu , Dan Rubenstein , Omri Weinstein