Comment by _0ffh
13 days ago
I suspect an April fools joke.
In general, compression using PRNGs is not a thing. There might be a special exception for this case, but I somewhat doubt it. =)
13 days ago
I suspect an April fools joke.
In general, compression using PRNGs is not a thing. There might be a special exception for this case, but I somewhat doubt it. =)
I suspect that you are literally the only person on this planet who would find this to be funny enough for Apple to waste the time of a dozen AI Researchers, Meta, arXiv and Apple Legal who vet everything.
The version on Arxiv dates to October 2024, which likely rules this out.
I submit that there is no "compression into PRNG seeds" going on here. This is just a quantisation method that happens to leverage PRNs, which might have some specific advantages and disadvantages. What I am sure it does not do, is what it's title seems to claim, if taken literally. I suspect they're having a good laugh, getting away with what they must know is borderline trolling. I'm impressed!