I am reaching a little bit but why not? @fchollet I am reading your paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547 (for the 3rd time I think) why is it that generalization has necessarily a cost that makes it antagonistic to compression in the Occam's Razor sense? @RobertTLange?
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Now, obviously, generalization requires abstraction, which requires erasing irrelevant details, so your high-generalization system will be doing *some* amount of compression. But it will be storing lots of seemingly useless info as well.
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Is this why you argue in the paper that it is a necessity for a generalizable system to have a cost. Like it can't get away from storing useless info?
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Here I see what the "cost" part means. The point I am struggling with is it being completely the opposite. I think I might be influenced by my intuition on compression as a tool for understanding. For me compression of information feels useful and transferable.
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