Explaining ‘Low-Resource’ Text Classification, the algorithm that is trending on Twitter

FS Ndzomga
4 min readJul 14, 2023
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You have certainly seen it on Twitter, everyone is talking about this simple algorithm that beats powerful neural networks in classification tasks. This algorithm is a novel approach to “Low-Resource” Text Classification, a method that combines the power of a simple compressor like gzip with a k-nearest-neighbor classifier. This combination…

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FS Ndzomga

Engineer passionate about data science, startups, product management, philosophy and French literature. Built lycee.ai, discute.co and rimbaud.ai