This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for data compression. The present implementations more specifically relate to encoding techniques for compressing probability tables used for entropy coding. In some aspects, an entropy encoder may encode a probability table so that one or more contexts are represented by fewer bits than would otherwise be needed to represent the frequency of each symbol as a proportion of the total frequency of all symbols associated with such contexts. For example, if a given row of the probability table (prior to encoding) includes a number (M) of entries each having a binary value represented by a number (K) of bits, the same row of entries may be represented by fewer than M*K bits in the encoded probability table.