MoE-LC: General-Purpose Lossless Compression for Multi-modal Data via Entropy-Aware Multi-Experts

The web-scale surge of multimodal content, including short-video feeds and autonomous sensing streams, has made web-native lossless compression a prerequisite for delivery and storage across browsers and edge–cloud pipelines. However, existing methods often fail to adapt to shifting distributions across different batches and struggle to balance computational resources in the face of large conditional entropy disparities among diverse modalities. To address these limitations, we propose MoE-LC, a new mixture-of-experts framework for multi-modal lossless compression that dynamically accommodates heterogeneous data distributions and varying complexity levels. First, the Batch-Adaptive Experts (BAE) module introduces batch-specific parameters with a residual gating mechanism, ensuring stable modeling under non-stationary distributions. Second, the Entropy-Aware Multi-Expert Selection (MES) strategy adaptively allocates the number of experts according to the data's estimated compression difficulty (entropy), thereby improving resource utilization and computational efficiency. Finally, the Precision-Aware Expert Routing (PER) component applies high-precision computation solely to the most critical experts, significantly reducing overhead without sacrificing compression accuracy. Experimental results across multiple real-world datasets demonstrate that MoE-LC achieves 5.33%--70.89% improvements in compression ratio and 37.25%--1532.41% gains in throughput compared to advanced baselines, offering a scalable solution for real-time, large-scale multi-modal data compression. Our code is available at https://github.com/Magie0/MoE_LC.