why a compressor's error can tell you where data came from
I wrote a short technical report and then animated it, hoping it's useful to people learning about autoencoders, OOD detection, or mixture-of-experts. The idea in three steps: Prediction ⇔ compression. A model that predicts text well can compress it well. Corollary: a compressor is only good at the…
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- 2026-10-19 02:33 · r/deeplearning
why a compressor's error can tell you where data came from