Asymmetric numeral systems – A new approach to accurate entropy coding (2014) [pdf]

>Among others, ANS is used in the Facebook Zstandard compressor[6][7] (also used e.g. in Linux kernel,[8] Android[9] operating system, was published as RFC 8478 for MIME[10] and HTTP[11]), Apple LZFSE compressor,[12] Google Draco 3D compressor[13] (used e.g. in Pixar Universal Scene Description format[14]) and PIK image compressor,[15] CRAM DNA compressor[16] from SAMtools utilities,[17] Dropbox DivANS compressor,[18] Microsoft DirectStorage BCPack texture compressor,[19] and JPEG XL[20] image compressor.