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We present a new lossy compressor for discrete sources. For coding a source sequence $x^n$, the encoder starts by assigning a certain cost to each reconstruction sequence. It then finds the reconstruction that minimizes this cost and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-19 Shirin Jalali , Andrea Montanari , Tsachy Weissman

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

This paper presents new lower and upper bounds for the compression rate of binary prefix codes optimized over memoryless sources according to various nonlinear codeword length objectives. Like the most well-known redundancy bounds for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Michael B. Baer

We introduce an algorithm for the uniform generation of infinite traces, i.e., infinite words up to commutation of some letters. The algorithm outputs on-the-fly approximations of a theoretical infinite trace, the latter being distributed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Samy Abbes , Vincent Jugé

We examine the coordinated and universal rate-efficient sampling of a subset of correlated discrete memoryless sources followed by lossy compression of the sampled sources. The goal is to reconstruct a predesignated subset of sources within…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Vinay Praneeth Boda , Prakash Narayan

The problem of joint universal source coding and identification is considered in the setting of fixed-rate lossy coding of continuous-alphabet memoryless sources. For a wide class of bounded distortion measures, it is shown that any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Maxim Raginsky

Large alphabet source coding is a basic and well-studied problem in data compression. It has many applications such as compression of natural language text, speech and images. The classic perception of most commonly used methods is that a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Amichai Painsky , Saharon Rosset , Meir Feder

Tight bounds on the block entropy of patterns of sequences generated by independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) sources are derived. A pattern of a sequence is a sequence of integer indices with each index representing the order of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-11-14 Gil I. Shamir

We describe a method for lossless quantum compression if the output of the information source is not known. We compute the best possible compression rate, minimizing the expected base length of the output quantum bit string (the base length…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-19 Markus Mueller , Caroline Rogers , Rajagopal Nagarajan

A new framework is introduced for examining and evaluating the fundamental limits of lossless data compression, that emphasizes genuinely non-asymptotic results. The {\em sample complexity} of compressing a given source is defined as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Terence Viaud , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

Consider the case where consecutive blocks of N letters of a semi-infinite individual sequence X over a finite-alphabet are being compressed into binary sequences by some one-to-one mapping. No a-priori information about X is available at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-01-25 Jacob Ziv

Consider a sequence $X^n$ of length $n$ emitted by a Discrete Memoryless Source (DMS) with unknown distribution $p_X$. The objective is to construct a lossless source code that maps $X^n$ to a sequence $\widehat{Y}^m$ of length $m$ that is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Remi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch , Aylin Yener

The problem of the universal compression of a sequence from a library of several small to moderate length sequences from similar context arises in many practical scenarios, such as the compression of the storage data and the Internet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Ahmad Beirami , Faramarz Fekri

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

The problem of variable-rate lossless data compression is considered, for codes with and without prefix constraints. Sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable compression rate of memoryless sources, when the excess-rate probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Andreas Theocharous , Lampros Gavalakis , Ioannis Kontoyiannis

For a collection of distributions over a countable support set, the worst case universal compression formulation by Shtarkov attempts to assign a universal distribution over the support set. The formulation aims to ensure that the universal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-17 A. Orlitsky , N. Santhanam

In this paper, the context dependence multilevel pattern matching(in short CDMPM) grammar transform is proposed; based on this grammar transform, the universal lossless data compression algorithm, CDMPM code is then developed. Moreover we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Chung-Song Kim , Chol-Hun Kim

We present new lower and upper bounds for the compression rate of binary prefix codes optimized over memoryless sources according to two related exponential codeword length objectives. The objectives explored here are exponential-average…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Michael B. Baer

The problem of joint universal source coding and modeling, addressed by Rissanen in the context of lossless codes, is generalized to fixed-rate lossy coding of continuous-alphabet memoryless sources. We show that, for bounded distortion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Maxim Raginsky

Traditionally, data compression deals with the problem of concisely representing a data source, e.g. a sequence of letters, for the purpose of eventual reproduction (either exact or approximate). In this work we are interested in the case…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-12-10 Amir Ingber , Tsachy Weissman