Can a lossless compression algorithm ever increase the size of the data?

Sep 25, 2019 ... In this paper, we propose a Transformer based lossless compression method that match the best compression ratio for text. Our approach is purely ... David Huffman gave a "best possible" algorithm for doing this. The algorithm for generating a Huffman tree is very simple and for the moment we will just ... On the Energy Efficiency of Lossless Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Practical ... paring data compression algorithms. To this end, we describe three existing cor- pora for examining universal lossless data compression algorithms. The argu ... Aug 5, 2016 ... gzip and xz uses two different algorithms, and therefore they perform differently, both in terms of what level of compression they achieve ... New LZ4 & Snappy IP Core from CAST Enables Fast Lossless Data Decompression. This first LZ4/Snappy IP core ASIC or FPGA hardware engine offloads a system's CPU ... Jan 17, 2025 ... Sharp bounds are derived for the best achievable compression rate of memoryless sources, when the excess-rate probability is required to be exponentially small ... Yang, “Efficient universal lossless data compression algorithms: Implementation and experimental results,” prepared for Hughes Network Systems (Germantown ... This paper provides the study of various lossless data compression techniques and compares their performance and efficiency using time and space complexity. ... data exchanged between wireless sensor nodes ... compression algorithm in comparison with other recently proposed lossless compression algorithms for WSNs.