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#107 - Dr. RAPHAËL MILLIÈRE - Linguistics, Theory of Mind, Grounding

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Relationship Between Compression and Language Models

A recent New York Times article talked about compression in relation to language models. I think the lossy compression analogy with a blurry JPEG is unhelpful, because again it harks back to this idea that language models are only memorizing and are incapable of generalizing. The idea here is that the compression that is happening is very much related to the capacity of language models to generalize instead of just memorizing.

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