AI Definitions: Compression-meaning tradeoff — Goforth Solutions, LLC

AI Definitions: Compression-meaning tradeoff — Goforth Solutions, LLC

Compression-meaning tradeoff – This is the balance between reducing data size (compression) and preserving the original information (meaning). To manage information overload, humans group items into categories. For instance, we think of poodles and bulldogs as dogs. We balance this compression with details that separate them: size, nose, tales, fur types, etc. LLMs, on the other hand, attempt to maintain this balance between compressing informat…