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		gliptic on Dec 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Short Message Compression Using LLMs Huffman still has a performance edge for static distributions. ANS bridges some of the performance gap between arithmetic coding and huffman.

astrange on Jan 3, 2025 [–]

But there's no such thing as a static distribution :)

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