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systems v t e asymmetric numeral systems ans 1 2 is a family of entropy encoding methods introduced by jarosław jarek duda 3 from jagiellonian university used in data compression since 2014 4 due to improved performance compared to previous methods 1 ans combines the compression ratio of arithmetic coding which uses a nearly accurate probability distribution with a processing cost similar to that of huffman coding 1 in the tabled ans tans variant this is achieved by constructing a finite state machine to operate on a large alphabet without using multiplication 2 among others ans is used in the facebook zstandard compressor 2 3 also used e g in linux kernel 4 google chrome browser 5 android 6 operating system was published as rfc 8478 for mime 7 and http 8 apple lzfse compressor 9 google draco 3d compressor 10 used e g in pixar universal scene description format 11 and pik image compressor 12 cram dna compressor 13 from samtools utilities 14 nvidia nvcomp high speed compression library 15 dropbox divans compressor 16 microsoft directstorage bcpack texture compressor 17 long term jpeg xl 18 and learning based jpeg ai 19 image compressors the basic idea is to encode information into a single natural number x displaystyle x 2 in the standard binary number system we can add a bit s 0 1 displaystyle s in 0 1 of information to x displaystyle x by appending s displaystyle s at the end of x displaystyle x which gives us x 2 x s displaystyle x 2x s for an entropy coder this is optimal if pr 0 pr 1 1 2 displaystyle pr 0 pr 1 1 2 ans generalizes this process for arbitrary sets of symbols s s displaystyle s in s with an accompanying probability distribution p s s s displaystyle p_ s _ s in s in ans if the information from s displaystyle s is appended to x displaystyle x to result in x displaystyle x then x x p s 1 displaystyle x approx x cdot p_ s 1 equivalently log 2 x log 2 x log 2 1 p s displaystyle log _ 2 x approx log _ 2 x log _ 2 1 p_ s where log 2 x displaystyle log _ 2 x is the number of bits of information stored in the number x displaystyle x and log 2 1 p s displaystyle log _ 2 1 p_ s is the number of bits contained in the symbol s displaystyle s 2 for the encoding rule the set of natural numbers is split into disjoint subsets corresponding to different symbols like into even and odd numbers but with densities corresponding to the probability distribution of the symbols to encode then to add information from symbol s displaystyle s into the information already stored in the current number x displaystyle x we go to number x c x s x p displaystyle x c x s approx x p being the position of the x displaystyle x th appearance from the s displaystyle s th subset 2 there are alternative ways to apply it in practice direct mathematical formulas for encoding and decoding steps uabs and rans variants or one can put the entire behavior into a table tans variant 1 renormalization is used to prevent x displaystyle x going to infinity transferring accumulated bits to or from the bitstream 2 entropy coding edit suppose a sequence of 1 000 zeros and ones would be encoded which would take 1000 bits to store directly however if it is somehow known that it only contains 1 zero and 999 ones it would be sufficient to encode the zero s position which requires only log 2 1000 10 displaystyle lceil log _ 2 1000 rceil approx 10 bits here instead of the original 1000 bits generally such sequences of length n displaystyle n containing p n displaystyle pn zeros and 1 p n displaystyle 1 p n ones for some probability p 0 1 displaystyle p in 0 1 are called combinations using stirling s approximation we get their asymptotic number being n p n 2 n h p for large n and h p p log 2 p 1 p log 2 1 p displaystyle n choose pn approx 2 nh p text for large n text and h p p log _ 2 p 1 p log _ 2 1 p called shannon entropy 20 hence to choose one such sequence we need approximately n h p displaystyle nh p bits it is still n displaystyle n bits if p 1 2 displaystyle p 1 2 however it can also be much smaller for example we need only n 2 displaystyle approx n 2 bits for p 0 11 displaystyle p 0 11 an entropy coder allows the encoding of a sequence of symbols using approximately the shannon entropy bits per symbol for example ans could be directly used to enumerate combinations assign a different natural number to every sequence of symbols having fixed proportions in a nearly optimal way 2 in contrast to encoding combinations this probability distribution usually varies in data compressors for this purpose shannon entropy can be seen as a weighted average a symbol of probability p displaystyle p contains log 2 1 p displaystyle log _ 2 1 p bits of information ans encodes information into a single natural number x displaystyle x interpreted as containing log 2 x displaystyle log _ 2 x bits of information adding information from a symbol of probability p displaystyle p increases this informational content to log 2 x log 2 1 p log 2 x p displaystyle log _ 2 x log _ 2 1 p log _ 2 x p hence the new number containing both information should be x x p displaystyle x approx x p 2 motivating examples edit consider a source with 3 letters a b c with probability 1 2 1 4 1 4 it is simple to construct the optimal prefix code in binary a 0 b 10 c 11 then a message is encoded as abc 01011 we see that an equivalent method for performing the encoding is as follows start with number 1 and perform an operation on the number for each input letter a multiply by 2 b multiply by 4 add 2 c multiply by 4 add 3 express the number in binary then remove the first digit 1 consider a more general source with k letters with rational probabilities n 1 n n k n displaystyle n_ 1 n n_ k n then performing arithmetic coding on the source requires only exact arithmetic with integers 1 in general ans is an approximation of arithmetic coding that approximates the real probabilities r 1 r k displaystyle r_ 1 r_ k by rational numbers n 1 n n k n displaystyle n_ 1 n n_ k n with a small denominator n displaystyle n 2 basic concepts of ans edit comparison of the concept of arithmetic coding left and ans right both can be seen as generalizations of standard numeral systems optimal for uniform probability distribution of digits into optimized for some chosen probability distribution arithmetic or range coding corresponds to adding new information in the most significant position while ans generalizes adding information in the least significant position its coding rule is x goes to x th appearance of subset of natural numbers corresponding to currently encoded symbol in the presented example sequence 01111 is encoded into a natural number 18 which is smaller than 47 obtained by using standard binary system due to better agreement with frequencies of sequence to encode the advantage of ans is storing information in a single natural number in contrast to two defining a range imagine there is some information stored in a natural number x displaystyle x for example as the bit sequence of its binary expansion to add information from a binary variable s displaystyle s we can use the coding function x c x s 2 x s displaystyle x c x s 2x s which shifts all bits one position up and places the new bit in the least significant position now the decoding function d x x 2 m o d x 2 displaystyle d x lfloor x 2 rfloor mathrm mod x 2 allows one to retrieve the previous x displaystyle x and this added bit d c x s x s c d x x displaystyle d c x s x s c d x x we can start with x 1 displaystyle x 1 initial state then use the c displaystyle c function on the successive bits of a finite bit sequence to obtain a final x displaystyle x number storing this entire sequence then using the d displaystyle d function multiple times until x 1 displaystyle x 1 allows one to retrieve the bit sequence in reversed order 2 the above procedure is optimal for the uniform symmetric probability distribution of symbols pr 0 pr 1 1 2 displaystyle pr 0 pr 1 1 2 ans generalizes it to make it optimal for any chosen asymmetric probability distribution of symbols pr s p s displaystyle pr s p_ s while s displaystyle s in the above example was choosing between even and odd c x s displaystyle c x s in ans this even odd division of natural numbers is replaced with division into subsets having densities corresponding to the assumed probability distribution p s s displaystyle p_ s _ s up to position x displaystyle x there are approximately x p s displaystyle xp_ s occurrences of symbol s displaystyle s 2 the coding function c x s displaystyle c x s returns the x displaystyle x th appearance from such subset corresponding to symbol s displaystyle s the density assumption is equivalent to the condition x c x s x p s displaystyle x c x s approx x p_ s assuming that a natural number x displaystyle x contains log 2 x displaystyle log _ 2 x bits of information log 2 c x s log 2 x log 2 1 p s displaystyle log _ 2 c x s approx log _ 2 x log _ 2 1 p_ s hence the symbol of probability p s displaystyle p_ s is encoded as containing log 2 1 p s displaystyle approx log _ 2 1 p_ s bits of information as is required from entropy coders 2 variants edit uniform binary variant uabs edit let us start with the binary alphabet and a probability distribution pr 1 p displaystyle pr 1 p pr 0 1 p displaystyle pr 0 1 p up to position x displaystyle x we want approximately p x displaystyle p cdot x analogues of odd numbers for s 1 displaystyle s 1 we can choose this number of appearances as x p displaystyle lceil x cdot p rceil getting s x 1 p x p displaystyle s lceil x 1 cdot p rceil lceil x cdot p rceil this variant is called uabs and leads to the following decoding and encoding functions 21 decoding s ceil x 1 p ceil x p 0 if fract x p 1 p else 1 if s 0 then new_x x ceil x p d x new_x 0 this is the same as new_x floor x 1 p if s 1 then new_x ceil x p d x new_x 1 encoding if s 0 then new_x ceil x 1 1 p 1 c x 0 new_x if s 1 then new_x floor x p c x 1 new_x for p 1 2 displaystyle p 1 2 it amounts to the standard binary system with 0 and 1 inverted for a different p displaystyle p it becomes optimal for this given probability distribution 21 for example for p 0 3 displaystyle p 0 3 these formulas lead to a table for small values of x displaystyle x c x s displaystyle c x s 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 s 0 displaystyle s 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 s 1 displaystyle s 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 the symbol s 1 displaystyle s 1 corresponds to a subset of natural numbers with density p 0 3 displaystyle p 0 3 which in this case are positions 0 3 6 10 13 16 20 23 26 displaystyle 0 3 6 10 13 16 20 23 26 ldots as 1 4 0 3 1 3 displaystyle 1 4 0 3 1 3 these positions increase by 3 or 4 because p 3 10 displaystyle p 3 10 here the pattern of symbols repeats every 10 positions the coding c x s displaystyle c x s can be found by taking the row corresponding to a given symbol s displaystyle s and choosing the given x displaystyle x in this row then the top row provides c x s displaystyle c x s for example c 7 0 11 displaystyle c 7 0 11 from the middle to the top row imagine we would like to encode the sequence 0100 starting from x 1 displaystyle x 1 first s 0 displaystyle s 0 takes us to x 2 displaystyle x 2 then s 1 displaystyle s 1 to x 6 displaystyle x 6 then s 0 displaystyle s 0 to x 9 displaystyle x 9 then s 0 displaystyle s 0 to x 14 displaystyle x 14 by using the decoding function d x displaystyle d x on this final x displaystyle x we can retrieve the symbol sequence using the table for this purpose x displaystyle x in the first row determines the column then the non empty row and the written value determine the corresponding s displaystyle s and x displaystyle x range variants rans and streaming edit the range variant also uses arithmetic formulas but allows operation on a large alphabet 2 intuitively it divides the set of natural numbers into ranges of size 2 n displaystyle 2 n and splits each of them in an identical way into subranges with proportions given by the assumed probability distribution we start by quantizing the probability distribution into steps of 2 n displaystyle 2 n where n is chosen usually 8 12 bits p s f s 2 n displaystyle p_ s approx f s 2 n for some natural numbers f s displaystyle f s sizes of subranges denote mask 2 n 1 displaystyle text mask 2 n 1 and a cumulative distribution function cdf s i s f i f 0 f s 1 displaystyle operatorname cdf s sum _ i s f i f 0 cdots f s 1 note here that the cdf s function is not a true cdf in that the current symbol s probability is not included in the expression s value instead cdf s represents the total probability of all previous symbols example instead of the normal definition of cdf 0 f 0 it is evaluated as cdf 0 0 since there are no previous symbols for y 0 2 n 1 displaystyle y in 0 2 n 1 denote the function usually tabled symbol y s such that cdf s y cdf s 1 now the coding function is c x s floor x f s n x f s cdf s decoding s symbol x mask d x f s x n x mask cdf s s this way we can encode a sequence of symbols into a large natural number x to avoid using large number arithmetic in practice stream variants are used which enforce x l b l 1 displaystyle x in l b cdot l 1 by renormalization sending the least significant bits of x to or from the bitstream usually l and b are powers of 2 2 in the rans variant x could be a 32 bit integer for example for 16 bit renormalization x 2 16 2 32 1 displaystyle x in 2 16 2 32 1 the decoder refills the least significant bits from the bitstream when needed if x 1 16 x x 16 read16bits tabled variant tans edit simple example of 4 state ans automaton for pr a 3 4 pr b 1 4 probability distribution symbol b contains lg 1 4 2 bits of information and so it always produces two bits in contrast symbol a contains lg 3 4 0 415 bits of information hence sometimes it produces one bit from state 6 and 7 sometimes 0 bits from state 4 and 5 only increasing the state which acts as buffer containing fractional number of bits lg x the number of states in practice is for example 2048 for 256 size alphabet to directly encode bytes tans variant puts the entire behavior including renormalization for x l 2 l 1 displaystyle x in l 2l 1 into a table which yields a finite state machine avoiding the need of multiplication 2 finally the step of the decoding loop can be written as t decodingtable x x t newx readbits t nbbits state transition writesymbol t symbol decoded symbol the step of the encoding loop s readsymbol nbbits x ns s r of bits for renormalization writebits x nbbits send the least significant bits to bitstream x encodingtable start s x nbbits a specific tans coding is determined by assigning a symbol to every l 2 l 1 displaystyle l 2l 1 position their number of appearances should be proportional to the assumed probabilities for example one could choose abdacdac assignment for pr a 3 8 pr b 1 8 pr c 2 8 pr d 2 8 probability distribution if symbols are assigned in ranges of lengths being powers of 2...