importantSYS.SOURCE: nathan.rs• 2026-09-22T06:08:39Z
gzip as a Language Modeling Approach via Compression-Prediction Equivalence
The article explores using gzip's DEFLATE compression algorithm as a language modeling technique by leveraging the compression-prediction equivalence, where text generation is guided by the compression efficiency of byte sequences. It employs beam search to improve generation quality, demonstrating that a standard compressor can produce coherent text without neural networks.
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