Authors
Ian H Witten, Radford M Neal, John G Cleary
Publication date
1987/6/1
Journal
Communications of the ACM
Volume
30
Issue
6
Pages
520-540
Publisher
ACM
Description
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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IH Witten, RM Neal, JG Cleary - Communications of the ACM, 1987