Can we use SLMs to compress data?

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Summary

Explores whether small language models (SLMs) can achieve lossless data compression by deliberately overfitting on training data, rethinking the typical aversion to overfitting in machine learning.

Forgetting the villainization of overfitting, what happens when you just take a massive amount of training data and overfit the model on that. Is it possible to achieve meaningful compression with "perfect" accuracy?
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