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A maybe dumb question for understanding: does a longer output imply lower probability of the input?
by manmal 3y ago
A maybe dumb question for understanding: does a longer output imply lower probability of the input?
- usgroup 3y agoits not a dumb question -- optimal coding in theory assigns codes of shorter length to more frequently occurring tokens hence by design longer codes imply lower probabilities: that's how compression is achieved.