Bit Allocation in Sub-linear Time and the Multiple-Choice Knapsack Problem

  • Authors:
  • Alexander E. Mohr

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • DCC '02 Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We show that the problem of optimal bit allocation among a set of independent discrete quantizers given a budget constraint is equivalent to the multiple choice knapsack problem (MCKP). This result has three implications: first, it provides a trivial proof that the problem of optimal bit allocation is NP-hard and that its related decision problem is NP-complete; second, it unifies research into solving these problems that has to-date been done independently in the data compression community and the operations research community; third, many practical algorithms for approximating the optimal solution to MCKP can be used for bit allocation. We implement the GBFOS, Partition-Search, and Dudzinski-Walukiewicz algorithms and compare their running times for a variety of problem sizes.