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LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
submitted 1 year ago by pavnilschanda to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you need the dataset to do the compression? Is the trained model not effective on its own?

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well from the article a dataset is required, but not always the heavier one.

Tho it doesn't solve the speed issue, where the llm will take a lot more time to do the compression.

gzip can compress 1GB of text in less than a minute on a CPU, an LLM with 3.2 million parameters requires an hour to compress