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LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We're likely talking about lossy compression here

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was my first thought as well, but it doesn't seem to be the case:

In their study, the Google DeepMind researchers repurposed open-source LLMs to perform arithmetic coding, a type of lossless compression algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

... and this is why I should actually read the articles before commenting lol