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zitterbewegung
on Dec 29, 2017
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DeepZip: Lossless Compression Using Recurrent Netw...
Why aren’t they comparing it to parq or even bzip?
lern_too_spel
on Dec 29, 2017
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Because the author compares to the best domain-specific compressors (by compression ratio) for each dataset instead. For text, he used CMIX[1]. For DNA sequences, he used MFCompress[2].
[1]
http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html
[2]
http://bioinformatics.ua.pt/software/mfcompress/
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