Predictive lossless compression enhances data encoding in integer domains, suggesting new efficiencies.
Lossless data compression traditionally relies on statistical entropy coders such as Huffman coding or Arithmetic coding, which require computing floating-point probabilities or maintaining large dynamic tables. In this paper, we propose a novel predictive lossless compression method, Wave-Based Entropy-Free Compression, operating entirely with integer arithmetic. The method utilizes a deterministic MultiBeeSketch neural predictor initialized identically on both the compressor and decompressor. Instead of encoding the raw data stream, we encode prediction outcomes: a single bit represents a correct prediction, while incorrect predictions are encoded as distance offsets in the predictor's internal count rank.
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