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Do lossless compression algorithms reduce entropy?

No, if the algorithm is lossless no steps in the compression sequence can reduce its entropy - otherwise it would not be able to be decompressed/decoded. … However, the additional entropy may be stored in 'out-of-band' information - such as the list that needs to be maintained in order to decode the move-to-front transform. …
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