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Generalizations of Length Limited Huffman Coding for Hierarchical Memory Settings

Authors Shashwat Banchhor, Rishikesh Gajjala, Yogish Sabharwal, Sandeep Sen

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  • Theory of computation → Data compression
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  • Approximation algorithms
  • Hierarchical memory
  • Prefix free codes

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the problem of designing prefix-free encoding schemes having minimum average code length that can be decoded efficiently under a decode cost model that captures memory hierarchy induced cost functions. We also study a special case of this problem that is closely related to the length limited Huffman coding (LLHC) problem; we call this the soft-length limited Huffman coding problem. In this version, there is a penalty associated with each of the n characters of the alphabet whose encodings exceed a specified bound D(≤ n) where the penalty increases linearly with the length of the encoding beyond D. The goal of the problem is to find a prefix-free encoding having minimum average code length and total penalty within a pre-specified bound P. This generalizes the LLHC problem. We present an algorithm to solve this problem that runs in time O(nD). We study a further generalization in which the penalty function and the objective function can both be arbitrary monotonically non-decreasing functions of the codeword length. We provide dynamic programming based exact and PTAS algorithms for this setting.

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Shashwat Banchhor, Rishikesh Gajjala, Yogish Sabharwal, and Sandeep Sen. Generalizations of Length Limited Huffman Coding for Hierarchical Memory Settings. In 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 213, pp. 8:1-8:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2021.8

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Shashwat Banchhor
  • Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Rishikesh Gajjala
  • Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
Yogish Sabharwal
  • IBM Research, New Delhi, India
Sandeep Sen
  • Department of Computer Science, Shiv Nadar University, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to an anonymous reviewer for suggesting the use of Monge property and simplifying the proofs of Theorem 1 and Theorem 2 in a previous version of this manuscript.

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