Title: Arithmetic coding for data compression Authors: Ian H. Witten, Radford M. Neal, John G. Cleary Published: 1987-06-01 Link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/214762.214771
Abstract
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.