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		3abiton on Sept 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 78% MNIST accuracy using GZIP in under 10 lines of... Didn't it turn out that authors of that paper have made mistakes that catapulted their results to the top of the benchmark charts? I thought the theory was inconsistent after that incident. 78% accuracy from just GZIP is impressive.

0xfffafaCrash on Sept 20, 2023 | [–]

haven’t looked through this post yet but I think this is what you have in mind: https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper/

vintermann on Sept 21, 2023 | [–]

This is 78% accuracy from Gzip-based compression distance + KNN, which seems to be worse than any other distance measure you can think of + KNN.

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