Text compression was a highly practical application of computing power. Today it might be a solved problem, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t attract new or unusual solutions.

The compression works by assuming that for a sufficiently large model, it’s likely that many source texts will exist somewhere in the training.

Handy new prompt engineering technique to do compression on essays and other text is examined and showcased as being quite useful.

In 1977, IBM scientists Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv developed a text compression algorithm with a powerful text redundancy remover that still works well for computer files such as spreadsheets ...

Brotli is a compression algorithm developed by Google and works best for text compression. Gary said on Twitter he spoke with the Googlebot team and they confirmed with him that Googlebot does ...

Compression of images and video fundamentally works the same way as compression of text. Compression software looks for statistical patterns in an image—colors or shapes that occur much more ...

Compression can be used by search engines to detect low-quality pages. Although not widely known, it's useful foundational knowledge for SEO ...

Better than JPEG? Researcher discovers that Stable Diffusion can compress images Lossy compression bypasses text-to-image portions of Stable Diffusion with interesting results.