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A Self-contained Analysis of the Lempel-Ziv Compression Algorithm

Information Theory 2019-10-03 v1 Computational Complexity math.IT

Abstract

This article gives a self-contained analysis of the performance of the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm on (hidden) Markovian sources. Specifically we include a full proof of the assertion that the compression rate approaches the entropy rate of the chain being compressed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1910.00941,
  title  = {A Self-contained Analysis of the Lempel-Ziv Compression Algorithm},
  author = {Madhu Sudan and David Xiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.00941},
  year   = {2019}
}
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