You might also be interested in the "Gzip Beats BERT" paper (2023), which made waves by showing that simple compression algorithms can sometimes perform as well as complex AI models in text classification.
Many academic papers compare bzip2 to other algorithms like Gzip and XZ, highlighting that while bzip2 is slower to compress, it often achieves better ratios than Gzip. B57zip
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