Compression Glossary
Browse 9 compression terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.
9 Compression Terms
- Archive
- A packaged collection of files, often compressed and stored in a format such as zip, tar, or tar.gz for transfer, backup, or distribution. Archives are also...
- Content Encoding
- The representation or transformation applied to response content, often indicated in protocols like HTTP to show compression or alternate encodings such as...
- Knowledge Distillation
- A model compression technique where a smaller student learns to mimic a larger teacher model. It influences how models are trained, evaluated, or served, and...
- Kolmogorov Complexity
- The length of the shortest program (in a fixed universal programming language) that produces a given string as output. A measure of the inherent information...
- Neural Compression
- Compression techniques that use neural networks to represent, encode, or reconstruct data more efficiently than traditional methods in some settings. The term...
- Quantization
- Reducing the precision of a model's numerical weights (e.g., from 32-bit to 4-bit) to decrease memory usage and increase inference speed, with minimal quality...
- Shannon Entropy
- A measure of the average information content (or unpredictability) in a message, measured in bits. Higher entropy means more randomness and less...
- Shrink Ray
- A joking metaphor for making something much smaller, simpler, or more contained. In engineering slang, it often appears when reducing scope, image size,...
- Zip
- A widely supported archive file format that combines multiple files into a single container with optional DEFLATE compression. Also refers to the higher-order...
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