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ameliustoday at 9:21 AM1 replyview on HN

Makes me wonder if compression ratio can be used as a measure for intelligence. Any benchmarks using it?


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magicalhippotoday at 9:47 AM

> Any benchmarks using it?

A challenge as I understand it is reproducibility.

Normal LLM runtimes aren't typically fully reproducible even with same random seeds for distribution sampling, due to floating-point numbers, batching and such.

Though averaging over many runs could alleviate that I suppose.

While it would measure some aspects of intelligence, I'd argue it fails to capture other, more creative aspects.