The user “JiaT75” inserted a backdoor in a tool for this task that was caught by Microsoft developer Andres Freund in March 2024. Kolmogorov complexity can be conceptualized as measuring an optimal form of this process. Inputs for this task can be preprocessed by the Burrows–Wheeler transform, which arranges “similar” characters together. One algorithm for this task uses symbol frequencies to construct a prefix tree. A family of algorithms for this task is named for Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv. Shannon’s source coding theorem bounds the efficiency of this process. Huffman codes can be used to perform a “lossless” form of this task. For 10 points, name this process that decreases the number of bits needed to store information, which can create .zip files. ■END■
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 49.33 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 89.80 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 71% | 112.86 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 93.89 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 7 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80.29 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 99.25 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 46.00 |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 68.60 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Sherrington | Southampton A | Birmingham | 11 | 10 |
| Matthew Siff | Yale A | Carabrandeis | 13 | 10 |
| Ragulan Sivakumar | MIT A | Brown A | 19 | -5 |
| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Manchester | 27 | 10 |
| Linus Luu | Cambridge B | Bristol A | 29 | 10 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Stanford M | 35 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech B | 35 | -5 |
| Matthew West | Purdue A | WashU B | 35 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | UIUC D | WashU C | 35 | -5 |
| Jake Meltzer | CWRU A | CWRU C | 35 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | SFU | UBC B | 35 | 10 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 36 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | UW A | 42 | 10 |
| Rajat Sethi | Northeastern A | Harvard A | 46 | 10 |
| Danny Peelan | Pitt A | Ohio State A | 46 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 46 | 10 |
| Yahwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan State A | 51 | 10 |
| Bharath Ram | Georgia Tech D | Auburn A | 59 | -5 |
| Will Locke | Tennesse B | Clemson A | 61 | -5 |
| Sebastian Veras | Georgia Tech C | Tusculum A | 61 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 61 | 10 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Tufts B | 63 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia A | 64 | -5 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Notre Dame | 64 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Texas C | 64 | 10 |
| Danny Fischer | Warwick B | Durham B | 64 | 10 |
| Katherine Lei | Stanford L | Stanford A | 77 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | UIUC B | Indiana B | 79 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | UChicago A | Purdue C | 79 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | Arkansas | 83 | -5 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UChicago B | 89 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech E | 96 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan State C | 96 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Mississippi State | 96 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | Boston University A | Amherst A | 98 | 10 |
| Jacob | OSU C | Kenyon A | 101 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Oxford B | 101 | 10 |
| Marc Greco | Williams A | Bowdoin A | 102 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn C | Emory A | 102 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia Tech F | 102 | 10 |
| Davis Johnson | Purdue D | WashU D | 102 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Central Oklahoma | 102 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Central Oklahoma | 102 | 10 |
| Jacob Tow | Colorado College | Texas A | 102 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Texas D | 102 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU B | McGill E | 102 | 10 |
| Brynn Jones | Oregon State | Ole Miss | 102 | 10 |
| Cormac Beirne | LSE A | Cambridge C | 102 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh | Bristol B | 102 | 10 |
| David Worley | LSE B | Vanderbilt | 102 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Southampton B | 102 | 10 |
| Andres Cordoba | Yale C | Brandeises Brew | 105 | 10 |
| Cindy Zhou | Boston University B | Yale B | 106 | 10 |
| Adam Monusko | Michigan B | CWRU D | 115 | 10 |
| Bob Freedman | Georgia A | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |
| Reilly Melville | Purdue B | Miami | 118 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU B | Michigan D | 118 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | UIUC D | 120 | 10 |
| Emmet Thomsen | Brown A | MIT A | 120 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | A Brandeis Supreme | Clark A | 121 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 124 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Tennesse B | 124 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Georgia Tech C | 124 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | UIUC C | Northwestern A | 124 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | UChicago B | SIUE A | 124 | 10 |
| Aaron Garcia | Arkansas | Texas B | 124 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Bowdoin B | 124 | 10 |