A Self-contained Analysis of the Lempel-Ziv Compression Algorithm
Abstract
This article gives a self-contained analysis of the performance of the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm on (hidden) Markovian sources. Specifically we include a full proof of the assertion that the compression rate approaches the entropy rate of the chain being compressed.
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