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arxiv: 2605.09928 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-11 · 💻 cs.IR · cs.DB

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OpenZL: Using Graphs to Compress Smaller and Faster

Yann Collet , Nick Terrell , W. Felix Handte , Danielle Rozenblit , Victor Zhang , Kevin Zhang , Yaelle Goldschlag , Jennifer Lee
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Elliot Gorokhovsky Yonatan Komornik Daniel Riegel Stan Angelov Nadav Rotem
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keywords lossless compressiongraph modelmodular codecsapplication-specific compressionuniversal decoderdirected acyclic graphdata compressioncompression pipeline
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Representing compression as a directed acyclic graph of modular codecs makes application-specific compressors fast to build and practical to deploy.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes a graph model that treats any compression pipeline as a directed acyclic graph whose nodes are reusable modular codecs. This structure produces self-describing output that a single universal decoder can handle regardless of the chosen graph. Developers can therefore assemble domain-aware compressors with far less code than before. On real-world data the resulting systems exceed the ratios and speeds of leading general-purpose compressors while matching the ratios of deep-learning compressors at orders-of-magnitude higher throughput. Production use at the authors' company shows development cycles shortened from months to days.

Core claim

Compression can be expressed as a directed acyclic graph of modular codecs that produces a self-describing wire format; any such graph is decompressible by one universal decoder, so tailored compressors become simple to construct, maintain, and run at high speed.

What carries the argument

The graph model: a directed acyclic graph whose nodes are modular codecs and whose edges define data flow, allowing arbitrary composition into a single self-describing stream.

If this is right

  • Outperforms state-of-the-art general-purpose compressors in both ratio and throughput on multiple real-world datasets.
  • Matches ratio-focused deep-learning compressors while remaining many orders of magnitude faster.
  • Reduces custom-compressor development time from months to days in production settings.
  • Delivers consistent size or speed gains inside large-scale deployments without sacrificing maintainability.
  • Supports any configuration through a single universal decoder because the wire format is self-describing.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same modular-graph approach could be applied to other data-transformation pipelines such as encoding or serialization.
  • Standard libraries of codec nodes might emerge, lowering the barrier for new domains to adopt tailored compression.
  • Performance on streaming or incremental data could be tested by measuring how graph depth affects latency.
  • Integration with existing compression ecosystems would let organizations mix OpenZL graphs with legacy formats.

Load-bearing premise

Non-experts can configure the graph to exploit data semantics without reintroducing the development and maintenance costs that previously limited custom compressors.

What would settle it

A dataset on which every OpenZL configuration yields both worse ratio and lower speed than a hand-written application-specific compressor that required comparable or less engineering effort.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.09928 by Danielle Rozenblit, Daniel Riegel, Elliot Gorokhovsky, Jennifer Lee, Kevin Zhang, Nadav Rotem, Nick Terrell, Stan Angelov, Victor Zhang, W. Felix Handte, Yaelle Goldschlag, Yann Collet, Yonatan Komornik.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: An example invocation of the tokenize codec. Tokenization is sometimes an effective compressor on its own (such as when the message is composed of many repetitions of a few large tokens). More frequently though, its utility is as an intermediate transformation, which produces outputs better suited for subsequent processing. We can attach other codecs to each of the tokenize codec’s two outputs, which separ… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: An example compressor that uses tokenize, Huffman, and LZ77. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: An example of function graph expansion. Function graphs are shaded [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Common abstract compressor structure. This pattern emerges because the components of OpenZL that are actually good at compressing data—its suite of reversible/reductive transforms—work best on homogeneous streams of data. For inputs that aren’t already organized that way, those backend components require a frontend to parse and group the input into streams that the backend can then compress effectively. To… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The simple graph for SAO. After parsing, grouping of fields is sometimes necessary to take full advantage of cross-field correlation. This involves partitioning the parsed streams and merging each partition into a single stream for downstream processing. The simplest (but by no means only) way to do this is to concatenate all streams in a partition. This is overkill for SAO but we use this technique extens… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Compression ratios of competitor systems relative to OpenZL. Higher is better. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Compression and decompression Pareto frontiers of different algorithms for selected datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: OpenZL integrated into Managed Compression. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗
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In the last few decades, research techniques have improved lossless compression ratios by significantly increasing processing time. However, these techniques have not gained popularity in industry because production systems require high throughput and low resource utilization. Instead, real world improvements in compression are increasingly realized by building application-specific compressors which can exploit knowledge about the structure and semantics of the data being compressed. Application-specific compressor systems outperform even the best generic compressors, but these techniques have severe drawbacks -- they are inherently limited in applicability, are hard to develop, and are difficult to maintain and deploy. In this work, we show that these challenges can be overcome with a new compression strategy. We propose the "graph model" of compression, a new theoretical framework for representing compression as a directed acyclic graph of modular codecs. OpenZL implements this framework and compresses data into a self-describing wire format, any configuration of which can be decompressed by a universal decoder. OpenZL's design enables rapid development of application-specific compressors with minimal code. Experimental results demonstrate that OpenZL achieves superior compression ratios and speeds compared to state-of-the-art general-purpose compressors on a variety of real-world datasets. Compared to ratio-focused deep-learning compressors, OpenZL is competitive on ratio while being many orders of magnitude faster. Internal deployments at Meta have also shown consistent improvements in size and/or speed, with development timelines reduced from months to days. OpenZL thus represents a significant advance in practical, scalable, and maintainable data compression for modern data-intensive applications.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a 'graph model' of lossless compression in which data is compressed via a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of modular codecs. OpenZL implements this model, emitting self-describing wire formats that a single universal decoder can decompress regardless of the chosen graph. The central thesis is that this framework permits rapid construction of application-specific compressors with minimal code, thereby avoiding the limited applicability, high development cost, and maintenance burden of traditional bespoke compressors. The manuscript reports that OpenZL outperforms state-of-the-art general-purpose compressors in both ratio and speed on real-world datasets, remains competitive in ratio with deep-learning compressors while being orders of magnitude faster, and has yielded size/speed gains in internal Meta deployments with development times reduced from months to days.

Significance. If the experimental claims are reproducible and the reported gains are attainable under the 'minimal code' constraint emphasized in the abstract, the work would be significant for production data pipelines. It offers a concrete middle path between generic compressors (fast but ratio-limited) and hand-crafted application-specific ones (high ratio but expensive to build and maintain). The universal-decoder property and the DAG abstraction could lower the barrier to exploiting data semantics at scale. The internal-deployment anecdotes, if substantiated with before/after metrics, would strengthen the practicality argument.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and Experimental Results] The abstract asserts that 'OpenZL's design enables rapid development of application-specific compressors with minimal code' and that internal deployments reduced timelines 'from months to days.' However, the manuscript provides no description of the graph configurations used in the reported experiments (e.g., number of nodes, lines of configuration code, or whether they were authored by domain experts versus non-expert users following a simple recipe). This information is load-bearing for the central claim that the framework overcomes the historical drawbacks of application-specific compressors.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract states that 'Experimental results demonstrate that OpenZL achieves superior compression ratios and speeds compared to state-of-the-art general-purpose compressors on a variety of real-world datasets' yet supplies no quantitative numbers, dataset names, baseline implementations, or methodology details. Without these, the superiority claim cannot be evaluated and the comparison to deep-learning compressors remains unverifiable.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be strengthened by the inclusion of at least one or two concrete ratio/speed numbers and the names of the primary baselines and datasets.
  2. [Introduction / Graph Model section] Notation for the graph model (nodes, edges, codec interfaces) should be introduced with a small diagram or formal definition early in the paper to aid readers unfamiliar with the DAG representation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

Thank you for your constructive review and for highlighting areas where the manuscript can be strengthened. We address each of the major comments below and commit to revisions that improve clarity and verifiability without altering the core contributions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Experimental Results] The abstract asserts that 'OpenZL's design enables rapid development of application-specific compressors with minimal code' and that internal deployments reduced timelines 'from months to days.' However, the manuscript provides no description of the graph configurations used in the reported experiments (e.g., number of nodes, lines of configuration code, or whether they were authored by domain experts versus non-expert users following a simple recipe). This information is load-bearing for the central claim that the framework overcomes the historical drawbacks of application-specific compressors.

    Authors: We agree that concrete details on the graph configurations and authoring effort are essential to substantiate the rapid-development claim. The current manuscript describes the high-level experimental graphs in the results section but does not quantify node counts, configuration code length, or the expertise required. In the revision we will add a dedicated paragraph and table in the experimental section that reports, for each dataset, the number of nodes in the DAG, approximate lines of configuration code, and notes that the graphs were authored by the paper's authors following the framework's modular recipe rather than by domain experts. This addition will directly support the 'minimal code' assertion. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] The abstract states that 'Experimental results demonstrate that OpenZL achieves superior compression ratios and speeds compared to state-of-the-art general-purpose compressors on a variety of real-world datasets' yet supplies no quantitative numbers, dataset names, baseline implementations, or methodology details. Without these, the superiority claim cannot be evaluated and the comparison to deep-learning compressors remains unverifiable.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the abstract currently omits specific quantitative results, dataset names, and baseline details. While abstracts are constrained by length, we agree that including representative numbers would make the claims more immediately evaluable. We will revise the abstract to incorporate concise quantitative highlights (e.g., ratio and speed improvements on named datasets versus named general-purpose baselines) while preserving the overall length and flow. The full methodology, all dataset names, and complete baseline comparisons remain available in the experimental sections of the manuscript. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper introduces the graph model of compression as a directed acyclic graph of modular codecs, implemented in OpenZL with a self-describing wire format and universal decoder. Claims of overcoming application-specific compressor drawbacks rest on this framework plus empirical results against general-purpose and deep-learning compressors on real-world datasets. No mathematical derivations, equations, fitted parameters, or predictions appear that reduce by construction to inputs or self-citations. The work is a systems contribution validated against external benchmarks, with no load-bearing steps that are self-definitional, fitted-input renamings, or uniqueness theorems imported from the authors' prior work.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 1 invented entities

Only the abstract is available, so the ledger reflects high-level claims rather than detailed technical content; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities beyond the core 'graph model' are stated.

invented entities (1)
  • graph model of compression no independent evidence
    purpose: Represent compression as a directed acyclic graph of modular codecs
    Introduced in the abstract as the central new theoretical framework enabling the OpenZL system.

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