Entropy Coding of Unordered Data Structures
Abstract
We present shuffle coding, a general method for optimal compression of sequences of unordered objects using bits-back coding. Data structures that can be compressed using shuffle coding include multisets, graphs, hypergraphs, and others. We demonstrate that the method achieves state-of-the-art compression rates on a range of graph datasets including molecular data, and release an implementation that can easily be adapted to different data types and statistical models.
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Kunze et al. "Entropy Coding of Unordered Data Structures." ICML 2023 Workshops: NCW, 2023.Markdown
[Kunze et al. "Entropy Coding of Unordered Data Structures." ICML 2023 Workshops: NCW, 2023.](https://mlanthology.org/icmlw/2023/kunze2023icmlw-entropy/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{kunze2023icmlw-entropy,
title = {{Entropy Coding of Unordered Data Structures}},
author = {Kunze, Julius and Severo, Daniel and Zani, Giulio and van de Meent, Jan-Willem and Townsend, James},
booktitle = {ICML 2023 Workshops: NCW},
year = {2023},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/icmlw/2023/kunze2023icmlw-entropy/}
}