bzip2 is based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT) . The foundational paper for this is "A Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm" by Michael Burrows and David Wheeler.

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Many academic papers compare bzip2 to other algorithms like Gzip and XZ, highlighting that while bzip2 is slower to compress, it often achieves better ratios than Gzip.