Questions tagged [data-compression]
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Binary compression algorithem with decompress by index
I have a list of 256-bit data to store. How to compress it losslessly so that I can retrieve an entry by its index without decompressing the whole data. I will also need to code this algorithm ground-...
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Undecidability in optimal data compression
There is this certain slide in Coursera Computer Science: Algorithms, Theory, and Machines course:
I think it is saying finding the optimal size of given data is undecidable. However, I thought there ...
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fpaq0.cpp is supposedly a "0-order" compressor. Why does it use a context then?
In http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html#Section_32 Matt Mahoney states:
The simplest of these is the order 0 coder fpaq0.
in http://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html#...
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How to compress highly correlated arrays?
I want to write a compression algorithm for a specific use case that I have.
I have many arrays which are for the most part, very similar. Each value in the array is an integer and is related to the ...
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Video compression algorithm
I am working on a project for my CS subject and the topic is Video compression. After theoretical aspect, I want to implement and describe one algorithm that does video compression. I am not sure if ...
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What properties must a string satisfy to be a possible output of the Burrows-Wheeler transform?
The Buttows-Wheeler transform is a function that takes a string $S$ to a new string $S'$ and an index $I$. The new string $S'$ is always an anagram (rearrangement) of the input string $S$.
However, if ...
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An efficient, probabilistic data structure for storing relationships between elements
I am fascinated by the bloom filter data structure. Is there a similar probabilistic data structure that can efficiently store and update the relationships between certain elements and the strength of ...
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How much CMIX compresses text data?
I have atleast a terabyte of text data which I need to compress as efficiently as possible.
It is file of english words and numbers (Not randomly arranged but forming meaningful syntax just as regular ...
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Theoretically the most efficient compression algorithm
I remember in high school we did this thing where we were given a bunch of numbers in a row that had a pattern. We were asked to work out what the next number in the pattern would be. It was very easy ...
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Find repeated patterns in a string via lossy compression
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The task is to identify repeated patterns in a string and do lossy compression of the input string using the found patterns. The output is a list containing different ways of encoding the ...
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temporal compression of binary data
I have a sequence of source files that are very similar (akin to frames in a video), and each file can be compressed by a codec independently, but there is no temporal compression.
I want to further ...
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Storing a file by converting it into $n$ files, some of which can be lost
Let's say that I have a file that I really don't want to lose.
I want to convert the original file into $n$ files in the way that will allow me to recover the original file if I have any $m$ of the ...
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Memory-efficient list of N unique integers from 0..N-1 with fast lookup
We want to represent a list of $n$ unique integers between $0$ and $n-1$ in a memory-efficient way. The only operation we need to support is looking up the $n\text{-th}$ element.
What are some of the ...
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Best compression algorithm for CNF SAT instances in DIMACS
For a CNF SAT instance in the DIMACS format what is the best algorithm to compress it? What is the best algorithm for 3-SAT instances in particular?
In 2020 SAT competition used .xz which if I ...
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Using B+Tree to implement index, when the index-key size and the data-block size are of the same order
I want to implement an Index using a B+Tree as the underlying data structure. The index will have to support key sizes which are of order of my block size, what means I cannot save all the key as a ...
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Can more compression be achieved when data is sorted (in ascending or descending order)?
Let's say I have a file which is exactly 1 MB in size.
Contents of file are :
0001001000... upto 128 bytes (128 bytes per line in file).
If I sort it in ascending or descending order (using notepad+...
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Compress set of mostly known bitstrings
Let's say there is a sender sending messages with commands to a recipient.
The sender knows a set of commands but doesn't know anything about the recipient. A command is simply an opaque uniform ...
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What is the entropy of an unordered list?
I'm trying to compress unordered lists of a few thousand integers for transmission over HTTP, and Claude Shannon is disappointing me with his mathematical ambiguity :)
Each integer is 6-digits, so ...
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Why XML dumps from Wikipedia are so compressed?
Few years ago I downloaded an XML dump of one of Wikipedia's fandom sites.
It was the XML datadump of Marvel Fandom.
The XML was zipped , size was 900 MB (approx).
But when I unzipped it , it was ...
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Is every binary sequence the output of some meaningful-text-input algorithm?
Here is the problem: Let's say we have a random binary sequence, just an arbitrary sequence of zeroes and ones (of some arbitrary length of digits). Can we find an algorithm that would decode/...
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Asymptotically Optimal Universal Code In Other Bases
Universal codes are fairly well studied, and many asymptotically optimal universal codes exist for binary data (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_code_(data_compression) especially https://...
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Is this a general compression algorithm?
I'm aware that an algorithm that compresses every input doesn't exist (by the pigeonhole principle), however I tend to think about the problem sometimes and I came up with a (flawed, but why?) idea:
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Compression algorithm using key value mapping
Would it be possible to do better than standard compression if you fed a bunch of zipped files through a machine learning algorithm that kept track of the most common bit sequences and produced a ...
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How to find the compression method used on an unknown sequence of bytes? [closed]
I have a sequence of bytes:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17sfchPgsySi2ilIxLuBb1q-UUqq5lO87
What the data is, is unknown (see NOTE below).
I'm pretty sure this data is compressed in some way, due to ...
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Is defragmentation a kind of minification, a kind of compression or perhaps both?
As far as I understand defragmentation:
Removes spaces between objects by putting objects nearer one to the other
reorganizes objects for better performance
The first action feels to me as some kind ...
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How does data compression relate to the ordinary meaning of “compression”?
When I think about "compressing" outside computers I can think about a compressed car which has become a metal rectangle.
It doesn't have less redundancy because it has everything it had ...
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Online algorithm for compressing multiple SETS?
Algorithms like LZW and others compress data sequences.
What I'm looking is an algorithm that compress multiple Sets. if possible online algorithm.
For example :
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Why does the Huffman coding algorithm produce a valid tree?
I am not asking about the Huffman Code, but the most widely described algorithm for generating one, also described on the english wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding#Compression
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File compression using prime numbers
My theory
take a file examplesize:(3GB)
convert said file to a number
divide that number by a large prime number example:(2^82,589,932 · (2^82,589,933-1))[2018 Dec 07]
get the quotient and the ...
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How Data Compression relates to Estimating Distribution?
I recently read this paper Mahoney, 1999.
And encountered this line,
optimal compression of a probabilistic language L with unknown distribution (such as English) using an estimated distribution M (...
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Compressing a bit string when I know how many 1s and 0s there are
Say I have a 256 bit bit-string, and I know that there are 16 ones and 240 zeros. I know that this bit string can be compressed, because there are only 256 choose 16...
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LZW with dictionary clearing
How does LZW decompress data with dictionary clearing/flushing? I understand that a space is reserved in the dictionary that represents a clear code (usually 256), but how is this code actually used ...
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Can you give me insight into the time and space complexity of those pairing functions?
I am looking for a pairing function with linear time complexity.
I found
one in Steven Pigeon's thesis (p 115, §5.3.6.3) described in English on MathOverflow that works by bit interleaving.
another ...
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What is the simplest algorithm to compress a string?
I need to compress a string in my application but I am very limited in the operations I can perform. In particular, I cannot store data in any file and I cannot query any database. Also, I cannot call ...
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Prime factorization for compressing streams of random numbers
We covered compression/encoding/decoding of data streams very briefly last lecture and I had an odd idea:
Let's say I have a stream of random 8-Bit numbers. Now the probabilty to encounter each number ...
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How many strings of length |w| are unrelated?
For sufficiently large |w|, how many of the 2^|w| strings of length |w| are entirely unrelated?
A way to define this: two strings are unrelated if their joint Kolomogorov complexity is practically ...
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Can you build a solver from a verifier?
Given code to just an NP-verifier, where the certificate/witness is required to be of size polynomial in the instance, for a language L, can you, from that data alone, construct code for a solver, or ...
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How do I compress data vectors in broadcast messages?
Let us model a wireless broadcast network as an undirected graph $G(V,E)$ where there is an edge between every pair of nodes ${i,j}\in V$ if they are in transmission range of each other. $w_{i\to j}$ ...
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Compression algorithm for statistical data with a desired outcome size
I did some basic research on regular lossy and lossless compression algorithms but somehow I couldn't really figure the right direction for the information I need.
My basic problem is that I would ...
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Arithmetic Encoding vs Adaptive Arithmetic Encoding
I am working on a personal project and I am having some conceptual level questions on arithmetic encoding.
Let's take a scenario where I have an array of sensors and the data collected is transmitted ...
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Is Prediction the same as Compression?
Just came across this transcript that states:
The principle is that prediction is the same thing as compression. And
what that means is that whenever you have a prediction algorithm, you
can also get ...
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Is arithmetic coding slightly more efficient than rANS?
I'm extending a framework for lossy compression of multidimensional floating-point data. At some point in the pipeline, sequences of symbols from a non-uniform distribution are losslessly compressed ...
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Clustering data for compression with PCA
If I have datapoints in a high dimensional space and want to find a (linear) subspace onto which a data-set projects well, I can use PCA and then discard less important dimensions of the new basis to ...
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How can 4 GB of data can expand into 40 GB of data, when I install Windows on a Computer
Say I start with an iso with about 4GB of data and use this, to install windows on a computer. After installation, the operating system will take up about 40GB of disk space.
Where does all this &...
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Mathematical limits on lossless data compression
Let's say Bob wants to send a particular binary sequence to Alice. Imagine that Bob and Alice both have powerful machines but slow Internet connections. Bob could just send the sequence directly but ...
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Design of a synchronized clock
I was living in a country where Internet wasn't that fast so the younger me had the following idea for compressing data
Let say 2 parties want to send data to each other, we know that data can be ...
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Can a 600 MB text file with digits of the square root of 2 be compressed to 600 KB?
I have a simple script to calculate gaps in a sequence of digits of the square root of 2 (or any other multi-precision constant).
As input, I generated files with the bigfloat module in Python:
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Adaptive arithmetic coding confusion
I'm confused about the point of adaptive arithmetic coding.
I understand that static arithmetic coding involves using preset probabilities of symbols that remain static during the whole process. I ...
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Significance of model in arithmetic coding
I am trying to understand the concept of arithmetic coding, i understand how the range is subdivided after each character is read from the string. But i am unable to understand why using a more ...
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How does value decompression work for Facebook's Gorilla in the case where count of leading zeroes is not stored
I am referring to this paper: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p1816-teller.pdf
My question is regarding section 4.1.2 where it says:
When XOR is non-zero, calculate the number of leading and ...
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