Title: A new algorithm for data compression
Authors: Philip Gage
Published: 1994-02-01
Link: https://www.derczynski.com/papers/archive/BPE_Gage.pdf
Abstract
This article describes a simple general-purpose data compression algo-rithm, called Byte Pair Encoding (BPE), which provides almost as much compression as the popular Lempel, Ziv compression.