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arXiv:2307.15002cs.CL

Gzip versus bag-of-words for text classification

Juri Opitz

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Abstract

The effectiveness of compression in text classification ('gzip') has recently garnered lots of attention. In this note we show that `bag-of-words' approaches can achieve similar or better results, and are more efficient.

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improved writing, extended with more results
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cs.CLComputation and Language

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  1. Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results 1 comment

    • This is my blog post, if anyone has any questions. I'll add that since I wrote these two blog posts, other people have sent me their other interesting work: (1) I link to this at the end of the post (using zstd dictionaries): https://github.com/cyrilou242/ftcc (2) today someone…

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