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Machine learning as a form of data compression by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Philosophically, machine learning can be seen as a form of lossy compression.
And if we make it too lossless, then we are basically overfitting.
Bibliography:
  • bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2019/09/19/bit-swap/
  • www.eecs.tufts.edu/~dsculley/papers/compressionAndVectors.pdf
  • arxiv.org/abs/2202.06533
  • towardsdatascience.com/ai-based-image-compression-the-state-of-the-art-fb5aa6042bfa
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