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Variable-length Coding

Variable-Length Coding is a source coding technique in lossless data compression where symbols from a source alphabet are mapped to codewords of varying lengths, typically assigning shorter codewords to more probable symbols to achieve efficient entropy-based compression.

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Compression of individual sequences via variable-rate coding

J. Ziv, A. Lempel · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1978 · 3.5K citations

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Run-length encodings.

Solomon W. Golomb · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1966 · 679 citations

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A locally adaptive data compression scheme

Jon Bentley, Daniel D. Sleator, Robert E. Tarjan et al. · Communications of the ACM · 1986 · 530 citations · Full text

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Universal noiseless coding

L. Davisson · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1973 · 374 citations

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System-on-a-chip test-data compression and decompression architectures based on Golomb codes

Anshuman Chandra, Krishnendu Chakrabarty · IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems · 2001 · 366 citations

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    Sergio Verdú

    Princeton University, United States

    10 publications · 740 citations

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    John Villasenor

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    9 publications · 413 citations

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  3. HY
    H. Yamamoto

    The University of Tokyo, Japan

    9 publications · 232 citations

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  4. SA
    Serap A. Savari

    Texas A&M University, United States

    8 publications · 247 citations

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    Pierre Duhamel

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    7 publications · 110 citations

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  1. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    15 h-index

    33 publications

    3.2K citations

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    14 h-index

    29 publications

    1.7K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    12 h-index

    44 publications

    990 citations

  4. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    12 h-index

    26 publications

    1K citations

  5. University of Southampton

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    40 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. National Taiwan University

    Taipei, Taiwan

    10 h-index

    31 publications

    899 citations

  7. Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique

    Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France

    10 h-index

    19 publications

    857 citations

  8. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    570 citations

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  1. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

    91 publications · 8K citations

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  3. IEEE Transactions on Communications

    33 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

    10 publications · 380 citations

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  5. Communications of the ACM

    9 publications · 978 citations

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