Adaptive Huffman Coding

Adaptive Huffman Coding is a data compression technique that dynamically adjusts how it encodes information based on the actual data being processed. It builds and updates a frequency tree in real-time, assigning shorter codes to more common symbols and longer codes to rarer ones. Unlike traditional methods, it doesn't need prior knowledge of data frequencies, making it ideal for streaming or real-time applications. This approach efficiently reduces data size on the fly, improving storage and transmission without needing to recode the entire dataset if symbols change in frequency.