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Can gzip be a language model?
- asasidh 3mo agoThe author primarily talks about the compression–prediction equivalence and also provides some working code linked in Github https://github.com/nathan-barry/gzipt https://github.com/nathan-barry/gzipt Every prediction model is inherently a compressor, and all compression algorithms are prediction models. Reference: Language Modeling Is Compression — Delétang et al., DeepMind, 2023. The prediction-compression equivalence, with the Chinchilla-beats-PNG result.