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//! Probability distributions that can be used as entropy models for stream codes.
//!
//! This module provides utilities for dealing with probabilistic models of data sources
//! ("entropy models") in exactly invertible fixed-point arithmetic so that no rounding
//! errors occur. As explained in the [motivation](#motivation) below, preventing rounding
//! errors is necessary for reliable entropy coding.
//!
//! The types defined in this module approximate arbitrary discrete (or quantized
//! one-dimensional continuous) probability distributions with a fixed-point representation.
//! The fixed-point representation has customizable numeric precision and can be either
//! explicit or implicit (i.e., lazy). While the conversion to the fixed-point approximation
//! itself generally involves rounding, once the fixed-point representation is obtained,
//! operations on it are exact. Therefore, the fixed-point representation can be used for
//! entropy coding.
//!
//! # Module Overview
//!
//! This module declares the base trait [`EntropyModel`] and its subtraits [`EncoderModel`]
//! and [`DecoderModel`], which specify the interfaces that entropy models provide and that
//! entropy coders in the sister modules can rely on.
//!
//! In addition, this module provides the following three utilities for constructing entropy
//! models:
//! - an adapter that converts parameterized discrete distributions (e.g., [`Binomial`]) or
//! one-dimensional continuous probability distributions (e.g. [`Gaussian`]) from a
//! representation in terms of float-valued functions to an (implicit) exactly invertible
//! fixed-point representation; when provided with a continuous distribution (a
//! probability density) then this adapter also quantizes the data space into bins. See
//! [`DefaultLeakyQuantizer`] and [`SmallLeakyQuantizer`];
//! - types for representing arbitrary categorical distributions in an explicit fixed-point
//! representation; these types are intended either as fallbacks for probability
//! distributions that lack an efficiently evaluable analytic expression of the cumulative
//! distribution function (and that therefore can't be handled by the above adaptor), or
//! for efficient *encoding* of i.i.d. symbols by precalculating and tabularizing the
//! fixed-point representation of each allowed symbol. See [`DefaultLeakyQuantizer`],
//! [`DefaultContiguousCategoricalEntropyModel`],
//! [`DefaultNonContiguousCategoricalEncoderModel`], and
//! [`DefaultNonContiguousCategoricalDecoderModel`] (and their respective counterparts
//! with the "Small" instead of "Default" preset); and
//! - types for high-performance "lookup tables" that enable efficient
//! *decoding* of i.i.d. data; these types build up a lookup table with `2^PRECISION`
//! entries (one entry per
//! possible *quantile*) and are therefore only recommended to be used with relatively
//! small `PRECISION`. See [`ContiguousLookupDecoderModel`] and
//! [`NonContiguousLookupDecoderModel`].
//!
//! # Examples
//!
//! See [`LeakyQuantizer`](LeakyQuantizer#examples), [`ContiguousCategoricalEntropyModel`],
//! [`NonContiguousCategoricalEncoderModel`]. [`NonContiguousCategoricalDecoderModel`], and
//! [`ContiguousLookupDecoderModel`] or [`NonContiguousLookupDecoderModel`].
//!
//! TODO: direct links to "Examples" sections.
//!
//! # Motivation
//!
//! The general idea of entropy coding to find an optimal compression strategy by using a
//! *probabilistic model of the data source*. Ideally, all conceivable data points would be
//! compressed into a short bit string. However, short bit strings are a scarce commodity:
//! for any integer `N`, there are only `2^N - 1` distinct bit strings that are shorter than
//! `N` bits. For this reason, entropy coding algorithms assign the scarce short bit strings
//! to data points that are most probable to appear in practice, while assigning longer bit
//! strings to data points that may be possible in principle but that are extremely
//! improbable in practice. More precisely, entropy coding aims to minimize the expected bit
//! rate under a probabilistic model of the data source. We refer to this model as an
//! "entropy model".
//!
//! In contrast to many other use cases of probabilistic models in computing, entropy models
//! must be amenable to *exact* arithmetic operations. In particular, no rounding errors are
//! allowed when inverting the cumulative distribution function. Even a single arbitrarily
//! small rounding error could set off a chain reaction leading to arbitrarily large and
//! arbitrarily many errors when compressing and then decompressing a sequence of symbols
//! (see, e.g., the [motivating example for the `ChainCoder`](super::chain#motivation)).
//! This module provides utilities for defining entropy models that can be inverted exactly
//! without any rounding errors.
//!
//! # Zero Probability
//!
//! All entropy models provided in this module have a predictable support, i.e., it is
//! always easy to predict exactly which symbols have nonzero probability under the model.
//! This is an important property for entropy coding because trying to encode a symbol that
//! has zero probability under the used entropy model would fail.
//!
//! When constructing an entropy model then the caller always has to provide a support
//! (either as an integer range or as a list of symbols of arbitrary type). All entropy
//! models in this module enforce the following constraints:
//!
//! 1. all symbols within the user-provided support are assigned at least the smallest
//! nonzero probability that is representable at the used fixed-point `PRECISION` (even
//! if naive rounding would lead to zero probability);
//! 2. all symbols that are not in the user-provided support have probability zero;
//! 3. the probabilities add up to one (this even holds when, e.g., quantizing a continuous
//! probability distribution on a finite support that is smaller than the continuous
//! distribution's possibly unbounded support); and
//! 4. no single symbol has probability one, i.e., we disallow degenerate entropy models
//! that put all probability mass on a single symbol, as such models can lead to problems
//! in some entropy coders (if you don't know whether you may encounter degenerate
//! entropy models for some symbols, just check for degeneracy and encode nothing in that
//! case since the corresponding symbols can be trivially reconstructed).
//!
//! When entropy models are constructed from a floating-point representation of some
//! probability distribution then rounding is done in such a way that the above constraints
//! are satisfied. When entropy models are constructed by passing in probabilities that are
//! already in fixed-point representation, then the constructor verifies the above
//! constraints in an efficient way.
//!
//! While constraints (1) and (4) above are strictly enforced (for types defined in this
//! module), constraints (2) and (3) hold in practice but must not be relied on for memory
//! safety as they can technically be violated without the use of `unsafe` (by using a
//! [`LeakyQuantizer`] with an invalid [`Distribution`], i.e., one whose cumulative
//! distribution function either isn't monotonic or has an image that exceeds the interval
//! `[0, 1]`).
//!
//! [`stack`]: super::stack
//! [`queue`]: super::queue
//! [`Binomial`]: probability::distribution::Binomial
//! [`Gaussian`]: probability::distribution::Gaussian
/// Re-export of [`probability::distribution::Distribution`].
///
/// Most users will never have to interact with this trait directly. When a method requires
/// a type that implements `Distribution`, most users will likely use a predefined type from
/// the [`probability`] crate. You only need to implement this trait if you want to use a
/// probability distribution that is not (yet) provided by the `probability` crate.
///
/// # See Also
///
/// - [`Inverse`]
///
/// [`probability::distribution::Distribution`]:
/// https://docs.rs/probability/latest/probability/distribution/trait.Distribution.html
/// [`probability`]: https://docs.rs/probability/latest/probability/
pub use Distribution;
/// Re-export of [`probability::distribution::Inverse`].
///
/// Most users will never have to interact with this trait directly. When a method requires
/// a type that implements `Inverse`, most users will likely use a predefined type from
/// the [`probability`] crate. You only need to implement this trait if you want to use a
/// probability distribution that is not (yet) provided by the `probability` crate.
///
/// # See Also
///
/// - [`Distribution`]
///
/// [`probability::distribution::Inverse`]:
/// https://docs.rs/probability/latest/probability/distribution/trait.Inverse.html
/// [`probability`]: https://docs.rs/probability/latest/probability/
pub use Inverse;
use ;
use ;
use ;
use crate::;
/// Base trait for probabilistic models of a data source.
///
/// All entropy models (see [module level documentation](self)) that can be used for
/// encoding and/or decoding with stream codes must implement this trait and at least one of
/// [`EncoderModel`] and/or [`DecoderModel`]. This trait exposes the type of [`Symbol`]s
/// over which the entropy model is defined, the type that is used to represent a
/// [`Probability`] in fixed-point arithmetic, and the fixed point `PRECISION` (see
/// [discussion of type parameters](super#type-parameters-of-entropy-models)).
///
/// # Blanket Implementation for `&impl EntropyModel`
///
/// We provide the following blanket implementation for references to `EntropyModel`s:
///
/// ```ignore
/// impl<M, const PRECISION: usize> EntropyModel<PRECISION> for &M
/// where
/// M: EntropyModel<PRECISION> + ?Sized
/// { ... }
/// ```
///
/// This means that, if some type `M` implements `EntropyModel<PRECISION>` for some
/// `PRECISION`, then so does the reference type `&M`. Analogous blanket implementations are
/// provided for the traits [`EncoderModel`], [`DecoderModel`], and
/// [`IterableEntropyModel`]. The implementations simply delegate all calls to `M` (which is
/// possible since all methods only take an `&self` receiver). Therefore:
/// - you don't need to (and, in fact, currently can't) implement `EntropyModel`,
/// `EncoderModel`, or `DecoderModel` for reference types `&M`; just implement these
/// traits for "value types" `M` and you'll get the implementation for the corresponding
/// reference types for free.
/// - when you write a function or method that takes a generic entropy model as an argument,
/// always take the entropy model (formally) *by value* (i.e., declare your function as
/// `fn f(model: impl EntropyModel<PRECISION>)` or as `f<M:
/// EntropyModel<PRECISION>>(model: M)`). Since all references to `EntropyModel`s are also
/// `EntropyModel`s themselves, a function with one of these signatures can be called with
/// an entropy model passed in either by value or by reference. If your function or method
/// needs to pass out several copies of `model` then add an extra bound `M: Copy` (see,
/// e.g., [`Encode::encode_iid_symbols`](super::Encode::encode_iid_symbols)). This will
/// allow users to call your function either with a reference to an entropy model (all
/// shared references implement `Copy`), or with some cheaply copyable entropy model such
/// as a view to a lookup model (see [`ContiguousLookupDecoderModel::as_view`] or
/// [`NonContiguousLookupDecoderModel::as_view`]).
///
/// # See Also
///
/// - [`EncoderModel`]
/// - [`DecoderModel`]
///
/// [`Symbol`]: Self::Symbol
/// [`Probability`]: Self::Probability
/// A trait for [`EntropyModel`]s that can be used for encoding (compressing) data.
///
/// As discussed in the [module level documentation](self), all stream codes in
/// `constriction` use so-called [`EntropyModel`]s for encoding and/or decoding data. Some
/// of these `EntropyModel`s may be used only for encoding, only for decoding, or for both,
/// depending on their internal representation.
///
/// This `EncoderModel` trait is implemented for all entropy models that can be used for
/// *encoding* data. To encode data with an `EncoderModel`, construct an entropy coder that
/// implements the [`Encode`] trait and pass the data and the entropy model to one of the
/// methods of the [`Encode`] trait (or to an inherent method of the entropy coder, such as
/// [`AnsCoder::encode_symbols_reverse`]).
///
/// # Blanket Implementation for `&impl EncoderModel`
///
/// We provide the following blanket implementation for references to `EncoderModel`s:
///
/// ```ignore
/// impl<M, const PRECISION: usize> EncoderModel<PRECISION> for &M
/// where
/// M: EncoderModel<PRECISION> + ?Sized
/// { ... }
/// ```
///
/// This means that, if some type `M` implements `EncoderModel<PRECISION>` for some
/// `PRECISION`, then so does the reference type `&M`. Therefore, generic functions or
/// methods should never take a generic `EncoderModel` by reference. They should always take
/// the generic `EncoderModel` *by value* because this also covers the case of references
/// but is strictly more general. If your generic function needs to be able to cheaply copy
/// the `EncoderModel` (as it could with a shared reference) then it should still take the
/// generic `EncoderModel` formally by value and just add an additional `Copy` bound (see,
/// e.g., the method signature of [`Encode::encode_iid_symbols`]. For a more elaborate
/// explanation, please refer to the discussion of the analogous blanket implementation for
/// [`EntropyModel`].
///
/// # See Also
///
/// - base trait: [`EntropyModel`]
/// - sister trait: [`DecoderModel`]
/// - used with: [`Encode`]
///
/// [`Encode`]: super::Encode
/// [`AnsCoder::encode_symbols_reverse`]: super::stack::AnsCoder::encode_symbols_reverse
/// [`Encode::encode_iid_symbols`]: super::Encode::encode_iid_symbols
/// A trait for [`EntropyModel`]s that can be used for decoding (decompressing) data.
///
/// As discussed in the [module level documentation](self), all stream codes in
/// `constriction` use so-called [`EntropyModel`]s for encoding and/or decoding data. Some
/// of these `EntropyModel`s may be used only for encoding, only for decoding, or for both,
/// depending on their internal representation.
///
/// This `DecoderModel` trait is implemented for all entropy models that can be used for
/// *decoding* data. To decode data with a `DecoderModel`, construct an entropy coder that
/// implements the [`Decode`] trait and pass the entropy model to one of the methods of the
/// [`Decode`] trait.
///
/// # Blanket Implementation for `&impl DecoderModel`
///
/// We provide the following blanket implementation for references to `DecoderModel`s:
///
/// ```ignore
/// impl<M, const PRECISION: usize> DecoderModel<PRECISION> for &M
/// where
/// M: DecoderModel<PRECISION> + ?Sized
/// { ... }
/// ```
///
/// This means that, if some type `M` implements `DecoderModel<PRECISION>` for some
/// `PRECISION`, then so does the reference type `&M`. Therefore, generic functions or
/// methods should never take a generic `DecoderModel` by reference. They should always take
/// the generic `DecoderModel` *by value* because this also covers the case of references
/// but is strictly more general. If your generic function needs to be able to cheaply copy
/// the `DecoderModel` (as it could with a shared reference) then it should still take the
/// generic `DecoderModel` formally by value and just add an additional `Copy` bound (see,
/// e.g., the method signature of [`Decode::decode_iid_symbols`]. For a more elaborate
/// explanation, please refer to the discussion of the analogous blanket implementation for
/// [`EntropyModel`].
///
/// # See Also
///
/// - base trait: [`EntropyModel`]
/// - sister trait: [`EncoderModel`]
/// - used with: [`Decode`]
///
/// [`Decode`]: super::Decode
/// [`Decode::decode_iid_symbols`]: super::Encode::encode_iid_symbols
/// A trait for [`EntropyModel`]s that can be serialized into a common format.
///
/// The method [`symbol_table`] iterates over all symbols with nonzero probability under the
/// entropy. The iteration occurs in uniquely defined order of increasing left-sided
/// cumulative probability distribution of the symbols. All `EntropyModel`s for which such
/// iteration can be implemented efficiently should implement this trait. `EntropyModel`s
/// for which such iteration would require extra work (e.g., sorting symbols by left-sided
/// cumulative distribution) should *not* implement this trait so that callers can assume
/// that calling `symbol_table` is cheap.
///
/// The main advantage of implementing this trait is that it provides default
/// implementations of conversions to various other `EncoderModel`s and `DecoderModel`s, see
/// [`to_generic_encoder_model`], [`to_generic_decoder_model`], and
/// [`to_generic_lookup_decoder_model`].
///
/// [`symbol_table`]: Self::symbol_table
/// [`to_generic_encoder_model`]: Self::to_generic_encoder_model
/// [`to_generic_decoder_model`]: Self::to_generic_decoder_model
/// [`to_generic_lookup_decoder_model`]: Self::to_generic_lookup_decoder_model
pub use ;
pub use ;
pub use ;