Compression
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The process of reducing the size of data or models while preserving useful information.
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- 3Hacker News·8/11/2026researchCompression as Prediction
The post argues that compression can be understood as a form of prediction, where better predictions lead to shorter descriptions of data. It connects this idea to how quantization helps compress large language models by reducing the precision needed to represent them.