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Author here: completely agree. I think it is not much of an achievement by itself, but it is interesting to see that it works! I will add a comment/edit to the
by js98 3y ago
Author here: completely agree. I think it is not much of an achievement by itself, but it is interesting to see that it works!
I will add a comment/edit to the post once I am home to clarify the relative ease of solving MNIST
- jszymborski 3y agoSorry if my comment came off as dismissive of the post! I was just trying to frame the results for those unfamiliar with the properties of MNIST. I think it is indeed interesting as it shows that Gzip can capture the same things that e.g. UMAP et co. are capturing when they acheive good scores on MNIST. Also, I'll add, that even despite some of the suspicions people have cast on the Gzip results in other experiments, I'm bullish on the utility of reducing entropy for classification problems.