LZ77 Is All You Need? Why Gzip + KNN Works for Text Classification
LZ77 Is All You Need? Why Gzip + KNN Works for Text Classification

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LZ77 Is All You Need? Why Gzip + KNN Works for Text Classification

Decoding the Success of Gzip + KNN: The Central Role of LZ77
I mean, it is tokenizing in a way, by generating dictionary entries and sequences.
Wouldn't say it's all we need.