Ian H. Witten, Radford M. Neal, John G. Cleary
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The state of the art in data compression is arithmetic coding, not the better-known Huffman method. Arithmetic coding gives greater compression, is faster for adaptive models, and clearly separates the model from the channel encoding.
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The state of the art in data compression is arithmetic coding, not the better-known Huffman method. Arithmetic coding gives greater compression, is faster for adaptive models, and clearly separates the model from the channel encoding.
Key concepts: Huffman coding, Arithmetic coding, Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding, Tunstall coding, Data compression, Variable-length code, Shannon–Fano coding, Arithmetic