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Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?

The recent paper, “Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors by Jiang et al. [ link ] recently received a lot of attention on twitter.
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Jul 17, 2023Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper? by ks2048381130

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