Efficient Integer Retrieving from Unordered Compressed Sequences

Abstract

The variable-length Reverse Multi-Delimiter (RMD) codes are known to represent sequences of unbounded and unordered integers. When applied to data compression, they combine a good compression ratio with fast decoding. In this paper, we investigate another property of RMD-codes - the ability of direct access to codewords in the encoded bitstream. We present the method allowing us to extract and decode a codeword from an RMD-bitstream in almost constant time with the tiny space overhead, and make experiments on its application to natural language text compression.