Approximation Ratios of RePair, LongestMatch and Greedy on Unary Strings

A grammar-based compressor is an algorithm that receives a word and outputs a context-free grammar that only produces this word. The approximation ratio for a single input word is the size of the grammar produced for this word divided by the size of a smallest grammar for this word. The worst-case a...

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Main Authors: Danny Hucke, Carl Philipp Reh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
Series:Algorithms
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4893/14/2/65