1965年苏联数学家Kolmogolov提出利用信源序列的结构特性来编码。而两位以色列研究者J.Ziv和A.Lempel独辟蹊径，完全脱离Huffman及算术编码的设计思路，创造出了一系列比Huffman编码更有效，比算术编码更快捷的通用压缩算法。将这些算法统称为LZ系列算法。-1965 Soviet mathematician Kolmogolov proposed use of the structural characteristics of the source sequences to encode. The two Israeli researchers J.Ziv and A.Lempel inventive, completely out of Huffman and arithmetic coding design ideas, created a series of more efficient than Huffman coding, arithmetic coding more efficient than general purpose compression algorithms. These algorithms will be collectively referred to as LZ series algorithms.