Information & efficient computation
What can the machine reconstruct instead of carrying again?
What I am examining
I study representations that let a system store less, repeat less work, or make better use of the computation it already performs. Compression, model memory, caching, and execution order meet at this question: which structure can be recognized and reused?
Why it matters
An algorithm that reduces the memory or computation a task requires can change where that task becomes practical. I am interested in the point at which an improvement makes a new capability available on hardware people already have.
What the evidence must establish
I count the complete representation and the work required to use it: dictionaries, model weights, conversion, decoding, latency, memory, and energy where measured. Exact recovery or task quality must remain explicit in the comparison.
The comparison
Established codecs, quantization methods, caches, and inference runtimes provide demanding comparisons. A claimed advantage needs to hold on data that did not determine the design.