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[โ€“] besselj@lemmy.ca 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

So if I have two machines running the same local LLM and I pass a prompt between them, I've achieved data compression by transmitting the prompt rather than the LLM's expected response to the prompt? That's what I'm understanding from the article.

Neat idea, but what if you want to transmit some information that an LLM can't tokenize and generate accurately?

[โ€“] taladar@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago

And how do I get the prompt that will reliably generate the data from the data? Usually for compression we do not start from an already compressed version.