Yes, exactly! One of the winning entries at http://prize.hutter1.net/ http://prize.hutter1.net/ (challenge to compress English Wikipedia) is/was a LSTM that pre

Yes, exactly! One of the winning entries at http://prize.hutter1.net/ http://prize.hutter1.net/ (challenge to compress English Wikipedia) is/was a LSTM that predicted the next character then used arithmetic coding on the final bitstream (correct bit / incorrect bit). Specifically, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07959 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07959