A universal algorithm for sequential data compression

1977 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 5,501 citations · 5 from inside this corpus

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What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Modern Information Retrieval	1999	11,572
Compression of individual sequences via variable-rate coding	1978	3,472
Prediction, Learning, and Games	2006	3,279
A Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm	1994	2,371
A Technique for High-Performance Data Compression	1984	2,194

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Algorithms and Data Compression	Computer Science
Cellular Automata and Applications	Computer Science
Advanced Data Compression Techniques	Computer Science

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