arxiv: 2604.07239 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-08 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.IT· cs.LG· math.IT

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Efficient Learned Data Compression via Dual-Stream Feature Decoupling

Huidong Ma , Xinyan Shi , Hui Sun , Xiaofei Yue , Xiaoguang Liu , Gang Wang , Wentong Cai

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keywords learned data compressionfeature decouplingdual-stream architectureparallel processingprobability modelingcompression efficiencysequential data

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Dual-stream decoupling of local and global features enables parallel processing for faster and more accurate learned data compression.

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The paper sets out to show that single-stream models in learned data compression must stack many serial layers to handle both fine local syntactic patterns and broad global semantic context at once, which raises latency and caps throughput when hardware components run at different speeds. By splitting these two kinds of features into separate shallow parallel streams, the method lets each stream process its information independently while a refiner stage sharpens the combined output for more accurate probability estimates. This matters because compression systems on real devices are often limited by the slowest serial step and by memory or power constraints, so removing that bottleneck could make high-ratio compression practical in more settings without extra hardware. If the separation works as intended, models can maintain or improve compression quality while running the entire pipeline concurrently.

Core claim

The authors establish that disentangling local syntactic and global semantic features into dual parallel streams, refined hierarchically for precise modeling, and processed through a concurrent pipeline, replaces inefficient serial deep stacks and achieves better compression ratios alongside higher throughput and lower resource use.

What carries the argument

The dual-stream multi-scale decoupler that separates local and global contexts into shallow parallel streams to enable independent and concurrent feature extraction.

Load-bearing premise

That local and global features can be cleanly separated into independent streams while still allowing the model to capture all necessary interactions for accurate data probability estimation.

What would settle it

Running the proposed method against standard single-stream learned compression models on the same datasets and finding no gains in compression ratio or throughput, or even higher latency, would show the decoupling does not deliver the claimed benefits.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.07239 by Gang Wang, Huidong Ma, Hui Sun, Wentong Cai, Xiaofei Yue, Xiaoguang Liu, Xinyan Shi.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Trade-off between compression ratio and throughput. Top-right is better. ANS (Duda, 2013)). However, they struggle to effectively capture the high-order semantic redundancy in complex data, resulting in limited compression capability. Recently, deep learning has revolutionized sequence modeling, enabling LDC to significantly outperform traditional methods in compression ratio (Sun et al., 2025b). Despi… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of the proposed method. The embedded input [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Verification of dual dependency patterns on Silesia. (a) Mutual information decay exhibits a sharp initial [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Illustration of execution strategies: Serial, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Analysis of different settings on Silesia. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: (a-b) NLL characteristics of the dual-stream architecture. (c-d) Impact of worker count and batch size on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Model loss trajectories of progressive ablation study. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Analysis of the content-adaptive router value dynamics. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Analysis of datasets via local entropy. Notably, this scaling benefit is not unbounded. When the batch size increases further to 16,384, the CR degrades across all datasets compared to 8192. This is attributed to context fragmentation, where the cumulative overhead from cold starts outweighs the statistical benefits. Consequently, for practical deployments, we recommend setting the batch size to 4096 or 81… view at source ↗

read the original abstract

While Learned Data Compression (LDC) has achieved superior compression ratios, balancing precise probability modeling with system efficiency remains challenging. Crucially, uniform single-stream architectures struggle to simultaneously capture micro-syntactic and macro-semantic features, necessitating deep serial stacking that exacerbates latency. Compounding this, heterogeneous systems are constrained by device speed mismatches, where throughput is capped by Amdahl's Law due to serial processing. To this end, we propose a Dual-Stream Multi-Scale Decoupler that disentangles local and global contexts to replace deep serial processing with shallow parallel streams, and incorporate a Hierarchical Gated Refiner for adaptive feature refinement and precise probability modeling. Furthermore, we design a Concurrent Stream-Parallel Pipeline, which overcomes systemic bottlenecks to achieve full-pipeline parallelism. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in both compression ratio and throughput, while maintaining the lowest latency and memory usage. The code is available at https://github.com/huidong-ma/FADE.

Editorial analysis

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

This paper swaps serial depth for parallel dual streams in learned compression to cut latency, but its SOTA claims sit on experiments that need direct checking.

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The main thing to know is that the authors replace the usual deep serial stack in learned data compression with a dual-stream multi-scale decoupler that splits local syntactic and global semantic features into shallow parallel paths, then add a hierarchical gated refiner and a concurrent stream-parallel pipeline to enable full parallelism on heterogeneous hardware. That combination directly targets Amdahl-limited throughput while trying to keep probability modeling accurate. The architecture description is clear and the motivation ties the design choices to real system constraints without extra fluff. Releasing the code helps anyone who wants to reproduce or extend the pipeline. What the paper does well is spell out how the decoupling removes serial bottlenecks and how the gated refiner adapts features across scales. The concurrent pipeline idea fits practical deployment needs where device speed mismatches cap overall speed. On the soft spots, the abstract asserts state-of-the-art compression ratio, throughput, lowest latency, and memory usage, yet the material here gives no tables, ablations, error bars, or baseline comparisons. That makes it impossible to judge whether the gains are robust or sensitive to hyperparameter choices and dataset splits. The core assumption that feature disentanglement improves modeling accuracy at the same time it enables parallelism could fail if the streams leak information or if the refiner adds hidden serial costs. This work is aimed at practitioners building efficient neural codecs for latency-sensitive applications on mixed hardware. A reader who needs concrete patterns for trading network depth for parallelism will find the design and code useful even if the numbers require verification. It deserves a serious referee because the idea is concrete, the code is public, and the problem it attacks is genuine, even though the experimental section will need close scrutiny for controls and fairness of comparisons. I would send it to peer review rather than desk reject.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a Dual-Stream Multi-Scale Decoupler that disentangles local syntactic and global semantic features into shallow parallel streams, a Hierarchical Gated Refiner for adaptive feature refinement, and a Concurrent Stream-Parallel Pipeline to overcome Amdahl-limited serial bottlenecks in learned data compression. It claims this yields state-of-the-art compression ratios and throughput while achieving the lowest latency and memory usage, with code released at the provided GitHub link.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold, the work offers a practical engineering route to simultaneously improve probability modeling accuracy and system throughput in LDC by replacing deep serial stacks with parallel streams, which could matter for latency-sensitive deployment on heterogeneous hardware.

major comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract asserts SOTA results on compression ratio, throughput, latency, and memory but supplies no quantitative tables, ablation studies, or error bars; the central claim therefore rests on unshown experimental controls and cannot be evaluated for post-hoc selection or fitting. This is load-bearing for the primary contribution.
[Introduction / Method] The weakest assumption—that disentangling local and global contexts into parallel streams will simultaneously improve modeling accuracy and remove serial bottlenecks—is not accompanied by a concrete test (e.g., an Amdahl-law breakdown or controlled comparison of serial vs. parallel depth) in the provided material.

minor comments (2)

[Method] Notation for the dual-stream decoupler and gated refiner should be introduced with explicit equations rather than descriptive prose only.
[Pipeline Design] The claim of 'full-pipeline parallelism' would benefit from a diagram showing the concurrent execution schedule and measured utilization.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the major comments point by point below, indicating planned revisions where appropriate.

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Referee: [Abstract] The abstract asserts SOTA results on compression ratio, throughput, latency, and memory but supplies no quantitative tables, ablation studies, or error bars; the central claim therefore rests on unshown experimental controls and cannot be evaluated for post-hoc selection or fitting. This is load-bearing for the primary contribution.

Authors: We agree that the abstract's claims must be clearly traceable to the paper's evidence. The manuscript contains quantitative tables (e.g., performance comparisons in Section 4), ablation studies (Section 4.3), and error bars on relevant figures. To strengthen the link, we will revise the abstract to reference the experimental results section explicitly and add a concise summary of key metrics with citations to the tables in the introduction. revision: yes
Referee: [Introduction / Method] The weakest assumption—that disentangling local and global contexts into parallel streams will simultaneously improve modeling accuracy and remove serial bottlenecks—is not accompanied by a concrete test (e.g., an Amdahl-law breakdown or controlled comparison of serial vs. parallel depth) in the provided material.

Authors: This observation is fair. The current experiments demonstrate empirical gains in accuracy, latency, and throughput from the parallel design (Section 4.2), but lack an explicit Amdahl-law analysis or controlled serial-vs-parallel depth comparison. We will add a dedicated paragraph in the Method section providing the Amdahl-law derivation for the expected speedup and an ablation study comparing serial deep stacks against our shallow parallel streams with measured component timings. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; architecture proposal is self-contained

full rationale

The paper describes an engineering architecture (dual-stream decoupler, gated refiner, concurrent pipeline) to address serial bottlenecks in learned compression. No equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or self-citations appear in the provided text. Claims rest on experimental results rather than any derivation that reduces to its own inputs by construction. This is the expected non-finding for a direct architectural replacement without mathematical self-reference.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Only the abstract is available, so no specific free parameters, axioms, or invented entities can be extracted or audited from equations or experimental sections.

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