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 |
| Kevin Ye | SFU | UBC B | 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 |
| Swapnil Garg | Berkeley A | Berkeley B | 36 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | UW A | 42 | 10 |
| Rajat Sethi | Northeastern A | Harvard A | 46 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 46 | 10 |
| Danny Peelan | Pitt A | Ohio State 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 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 61 | 10 |
| Will Locke | Tennesse B | Clemson A | 61 | -5 |
| John Cha | Tufts A | Tufts B | 63 | 10 |
| Alex Akridge | Indiana A | Notre Dame | 64 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | Texas C | 64 | 10 |
| Danny Fischer | Warwick B | Durham B | 64 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia A | 64 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | Mississippi State | 96 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech B | Georgia Tech E | 96 | 10 |
| Reed Sexton | Michigan C | Michigan State C | 96 | 10 |
| Eren Michelet | Boston University A | Amherst A | 98 | 10 |
| Charlie Lowman | Imperial B | Oxford B | 101 | 10 |
| Jacob | OSU C | Kenyon A | 101 | 10 |
| Marc Greco | Williams A | Bowdoin A | 102 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Georgia Tech F | 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 |
| Coy Mier | Auburn C | Emory A | 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 |
| 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 |
| Reilly Melville | Purdue B | Miami | 118 | 10 |
| Bob Freedman | Georgia A | Alabama A | 118 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | CWRU B | Michigan D | 118 | 10 |
| Emmet Thomsen | Brown A | MIT A | 120 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU C | UIUC D | 120 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | A Brandeis Supreme | Clark A | 121 | 10 |
| Christopher Dech | Diamond Brandeis | Bowdoin B | 124 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum A | Georgia Tech C | 124 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | UIUC C | Northwestern A | 124 | 10 |
| Will McCurley | Auburn A | Georgia Tech D | 124 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson A | Tennesse B | 124 | 10 |
| Liam Starnes | UChicago B | SIUE A | 124 | 10 |
| Aaron Garcia | Arkansas | Texas B | 124 | 10 |