floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoLLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers findventurebeat.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down13cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtech@kbin.social
arrow-up1129arrow-down1external-linkLLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers findventurebeat.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square19fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtech@kbin.social
minus-squareHexagon@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-210 months agoWe’re likely talking about lossy compression here
minus-squareenkers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·10 months agoThat 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.
minus-squareHexagon@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 months ago… and this is why I should actually read the articles before commenting lol
We’re likely talking about lossy compression here
That was my first thought as well, but it doesn’t seem to be the case:
… and this is why I should actually read the articles before commenting lol