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 |
| Matthew West | Purdue A | WashU B | 35 | 10 |
| Jiping Fang | UIUC D | WashU C | 35 | -5 |
| Abby Smith | Berkeley C | Stanford M | 35 | 10 |
| Aaryan Tomar | Georgia Tech E | Georgia Tech B | 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 |
| Danny Peelan | Pitt A | Ohio State A | 46 | 10 |
| Rajat Sethi | Northeastern A | Harvard 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 |
| Sebastian Veras | Georgia Tech C | Tusculum A | 61 | -5 |
| Will Locke | Tennesse B | Clemson 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 |
| Ezra Santos | UChicago A | Purdue C | 79 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | UIUC B | Indiana B | 79 | 10 |
| Owen Gilroy | Texas B | Arkansas | 83 | -5 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE A | UChicago B | 89 | -5 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan State C | 96 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech E | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Tow | Colorado College | Texas A | 102 | 10 |
| Marc Greco | Williams A | Bowdoin A | 102 | 10 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn C | Emory A | 102 | 10 |
| Sam Macchi | Vassar A | Central Oklahoma | 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 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU B | Michigan D | 118 | 10 |
| Bob Freedman | Georgia A | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |
| Reilly Melville | Purdue B | Miami | 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 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Georgia Tech C | 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 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 124 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Tennesse B | 124 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | UIUC C | Northwestern A | 124 | 10 |