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Sophie Wang

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Hello! I am a Master's student at MIT. I am interested in what neural networks learn, how that knowledge is represented, and what determines when and how it becomes expressed.

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JPEG Compression

JPEG is a clever image compression algorithm that exploits a human perceptual bias and the structure of natural images. It makes a change of basis before encoding so that the rewritten image representation concentrates the signal that humans are most perceptive to, and thus, the remaining details can be discarded…