A compression algorithm can be used to reduce the size of a data set by encoding the data in a form that requires fewer bytes to represent. The most common type of compression is lossless compression, which uses techniques such as Huffman coding and run-length encoding to reduce the size of the data set without any loss of information. Lossy compression may also be used, which will result in a reduced data set size but with some degree of data loss.
Generate a compression algorithm to reduce the size of a data set.