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Martin Bertran Lopez and Aaron Roth published "What fits (into few tokens) doesn't overfit" on September 10 (Amazon Science). Across eight datasets spanning tabular and image classification, language modeling, diffusion and reward modeling, winning strategies compressed to 16-32 tokens with no performance loss, including one language-modeling recipe surviving as QKn 12L768 Mu .1 R² b2M 4x. Their argument is that short descriptions can't cheat because there's no room to memorize, which makes compression a cheap overfitting test: genuinely overfit strategies lose their validation-specific gains when squeezed.
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