LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find - eviltoast
    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      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.