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# Infinite-Alphabet Prefix Codes Optimal for beta-Exponential Penalties

@article{Baer2007InfiniteAlphabetPC,
title={Infinite-Alphabet Prefix Codes Optimal for beta-Exponential Penalties},
author={Michael B. Baer},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2007},
volume={abs/cs/0701011}
}
• M. Baer
• Published 2 January 2007
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
Let $P = \{p(i)\}$ be a measure of strictly positive probabilities on the set of nonnegative integers. Although the countable number of inputs prevents usage of the Huffman algorithm, there are nontrivial $P$ for which known methods find a source code that is optimal in the sense of minimizing expected codeword length. For some applications, however, a source code should instead minimize one of a family of nonlinear objective functions, $\beta$-exponential means, those of the form \$\log_a…

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