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this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2023
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Yes it is.
You went into a lot of detail about how they do it, but it's still what they do.
I think the main point they're disagreeing with is this:
They explain why you don't need 100% accuracy - most compression codecs would only use the network for a prediction, which doesn't actually have to be correct. It just has to be "more likely to be correct" than existing algorithms.
If you want to read up more on the context of these prediction functions, the general class of compression algorithms you'd use for this are called prediction wavelet codecs. FLAC and arguably PNG are both prediction wavelet codecs.