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The rapid expansion of data volumes in modern applications has intensified the need for efficient methods of storing and retrieving information. Contemporary research in data compression focuses on ...

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Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has introduced DeepSeek-OCR, an open-source model accompanied by a research paper that pioneers a novel "optical compression" method aimed at reducing ...