| ▲ | AaronAPU 4 hours ago | |
Is there a good known algorithm which performs general purpose compression where the target is a given turing complete instruction set? Rather than relying on a fixed general purpose decoder and the associated compressed data. I’m asking here instead of asking an LLM because that’s what humans used to do and it was pleasant. | ||
| ▲ | wizzwizz4 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
A perfect implementation would be a Kolmogorov oracle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity#Halting_... suggests this is equivalent to a halting oracle. So, it depends what you mean by "good". | ||
| ▲ | convolvatron 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
that sounds pretty related to Kolgomorov complexity, which is uncomputable in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity I too would be interested in approximations or heuristics if anyone has any | ||