A Generic Top-Down Dynamic-Programming Approach to Prefix-Free Coding

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dc.creatorGolin, Mordecai
dc.creatorXu, Xiaoming
dc.creatorYu, Jiajin
dc.date2008-09-26
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:05:42Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:05:42Z
dc.descriptionGiven a probability distribution over a set of n words to be transmitted, the Huffman Coding problem is to find a minimal-cost prefix free code for transmitting those words. The basic Huffman coding problem can be solved in O(n log n) time but variations are more difficult. One of the standard techniques for solving these variations utilizes a top-down dynamic programming approach. In this paper we show that this approach is amenable to dynamic programming speedup techniques, permitting a speedup of an order of magnitude for many algorithms in the literature for such variations as mixed radix, reserved length and one-ended coding. These speedups are immediate implications of a general structural property that permits batching together the calculation of many DP entries.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4577
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4577
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/170088
dc.subjectData Structures and Algorithms
dc.subjectInformation Theory
dc.subjectE.1; E.4; H.1.1
dc.titleA Generic Top-Down Dynamic-Programming Approach to Prefix-Free Coding
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