A universal data compression system

  • Authors:
  • J. Rissanen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A universal data compression algorithm is described which is capable of compressing long strings generated by a "finitely generated" source, with a near optimum per symbol length without prior knowledge of the source. This class of sources may be viewed as a generalization of Markov sources to random fields. Moreover, the algorithm does not require a working storage much larger than that needed to describe the source generating parameters.