{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/practical-random-access-to-slp-compressed","title":"Practical Random Access to SLP-Compressed Texts","arxiv_id":"1910.07145","date":"2019-10-16","proceeding":null,"authors":["Travis Gagie","Tomohiro I","Giovanni Manzini","Gonzalo Navarro","Hiroshi Sakamoto","Louisa Seelbach Benkner","Yoshimasa Takabatake"],"abstract":"Grammar-based compression is a popular and powerful approach to compressing repetitive texts but until recently its relatively poor time-space trade-offs during real-life construction made it impractical for truly massive datasets such as genomic databases. In a recent paper (SPIRE 2019) we showed how simple pre-processing can dramatically improve those trade-offs, and in this paper we turn our attention to one of the features that make grammar-based compression so attractive: the possibility of supporting fast random access. This is an essential primitive in many algorithms that process grammar-compressed texts without decompressing them and so many theoretical bounds have been published about it, but experimentation has lagged behind. We give a new encoding of grammars that is about as small as the practical state of the art (Maruyama et al., SPIRE 2013) but with significantly faster queries.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07145v4","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.07145v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"practical-random-access-to-slp-compressed","repo_url":"https://github.com/itomomoti/ShapedSlp","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}