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{{short description|Data compression technique}}

'''Adaptive Huffman coding''' (also called '''Dynamic Huffman coding''') is an [[adaptive coding]] technique based on [[Huffman coding]]. It permits building the code as the symbols are being transmitted, having no initial knowledge of source distribution, that allows one-pass encoding and adaptation to changing conditions in data.<ref name="LiDrew2014">{{cite book|author1=Ze-Nian Li|author2=Mark S. Drew|author3=Jiangchuan Liu|title=Fundamentals of Multimedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R6vBBAAAQBAJ|date=9 April 2014|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-319-05290-8}}</ref>