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# Text Distance from Nested and Hierarchical Repetitions: A Compression-Based Perspective

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**Published:** July 8, 2026  
**Original:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05416  

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## Overview

arXiv:2607.05416v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a new method for structural sequence analysis grounded in Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT). At its core is the Ladderpath approach, which extracts nested and hierarchical relationships among repeated substructures in linguistic sequences -- an instantiation of AIT's principle of describing data through minimal generative programs. These structures are then used to define three distance measures: a normalized compression distance (NCD

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