Plain old gzip+kNN outperforms BERT and other DNNs

As per this paper:

“Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors

Zhiying Jiang, Matthew Yang, Mikhail Tsirlin, Raphael Tang, Yiqin Dai, Jimmy Lin

https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/

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