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How far does a hash-only sender go? A pre-registered map of sender memory versus bits for short text messages
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researcher tested whether a hash-only sender with receiver-side language model can compress short text messages cheaper than classical compression methods.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers optimizing message transmission costs on bandwidth-constrained or metered communication links with computational asymmetry.
- Watch out
- Hash-only method failed on 143 of 1,000 messages and cost 18.4 more bits per message than PPM order-1 baseline, losing on airtime across most tested links.
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