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This paper presents prefix codes which minimize various criteria constructed as a convex combination of maximum codeword length and average codeword length or maximum redundancy and average redundancy, including a convex combination of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-11 Charalambos D. Charalambous , Themistoklis Charalambous , Farzad Rezaei

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

Suppose we have n keys, n access probabilities for the keys, and n+1 access probabilities for the gaps between the keys. Let h_min(n) be the minimal height of a binary search tree for n keys. We consider the problem to construct an optimal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-08 Peter Becker

We present a new algorithm for dynamic prefix-free coding, based on Shannon coding. We give a simple analysis and prove a better upper bound on the length of the encoding produced than the corresponding bound for dynamic Huffman coding. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Travis Gagie

We present a tree-based construction of LDPC codes that have minimum pseudocodeword weight equal to or almost equal to the minimum distance, and perform well with iterative decoding. The construction involves enumerating a $d$-regular tree…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christine Kelley , Deepak Sridhara , Joachim Rosenthal

Canonical Huffman code is an optimal prefix-free compression code whose codewords enumerated in the lexicographical order form a list of binary words in non-decreasing lengths. Gagie et al. (2015) gave a representation of this coding…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Szymon Grabowski , Dominik Köppl

Although real-world text datasets, such as DNA sequences, are far from being uniformly random, average-case string searching algorithms perform significantly better than worst-case ones in most applications of interest. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Lorraine A. K. Ayad , Panagiotis Charalampopoulos , Costas S. Iliopoulos , Solon P. Pissis

A variable-length code is a fix-free code if no codeword is a prefix or a suffix of any other codeword. In a fix-free code any finite sequence of codewords can be decoded in both directions, which can improve the robustness to channel noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Sergey Yekhanin

This paper presents an optimal construction of $N$-bit-delay almost instantaneous fixed-to-variable-length (AIFV) codes, the general form of binary codes we can make when finite bits of decoding delay are allowed. The presented method…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ryosuke Sugiura , Masaaki Nishino , Norihito Yasuda , Yutaka Kamamoto , Takehiro Moriya

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 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

We show how to build several data structures of central importance to string processing, taking as input the Burrows-Wheeler transform (BWT) and using small extra working space. Let $n$ be the text length and $\sigma$ be the alphabet size.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Nicola Prezza , Giovanna Rosone

Pre-transformed polar codes (PTPCs) form a class of codes that perform close to the finite-length capacity bounds. The minimum distance and the number of minimum weight codewords are two decisive properties for their performance. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Andreas Zunker , Marvin Geiselhart , Stephan ten Brink

The notions of synchronizing and partitioning sets are recently introduced variants of locally consistent parsings with great potential in problem-solving. In this paper we propose a deterministic algorithm that constructs for a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Dmitry Kosolobov , Nikita Sivukhin

This paper presents a general technique for optimally transforming any dynamic data structure that operates on atomic and indivisible keys by constant-time comparisons, into a data structure that handles unbounded-length keys whose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Amihood Amir , Gianni Franceschini , Roberto Grossi , Tsvi Kopelowitz , Moshe Lewenstein , Noa Lewenstein

The tree edit distance is a natural dissimilarity measure between rooted ordered trees whose nodes are labeled over an alphabet $\Sigma$. It is defined as the minimum number of node edits (insertions, deletions, and relabelings) required to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Tomasz Kociumaka , Ali Shahali

The number of zeros and the number of ones in a binary string are referred to as the composition of the string, and the prefix-suffix compositions of a string are a multiset formed by the compositions of the prefixes and suffixes of all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zitan Chen

For many kinds of prefix-free codes there are efficient and compact alternatives to the traditional tree-based representation. Since these put the codes into canonical form, however, they can only be used when we can choose the order in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Antonio Fariña , Travis Gagie , Szymon Grabowski , Giovanni Manzini , Gonzalo Navarro , Alberto Ordóñez

Suffix arrays and LCP arrays are one of the most fundamental data structures widely used for various kinds of string processing. We consider two problems for a read-only string of length $N$ over an integer alphabet $[1, \dots, \sigma]$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Keisuke Goto

Multiple algorithms are known for efficiently calculating the prefix probability of a string under a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG). Good algorithms for the problem have a runtime cubic in the length of the input string. However,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Franz Nowak , Ryan Cotterell