{"id":1237679,"date":"2025-03-06T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237679"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:22:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:22:05","slug":"cmu-research-shows-compression-alone-may-unlock-ai-puzzle-solving-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237679","title":{"rendered":"CMU research shows compression alone may unlock AI puzzle-solving abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/iliao2345.github.io\/blog_posts\/arc_agi_without_pretraining\/arc_agi_without_pretraining.html\">recently discovered<\/a> hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of examples. Their system tackles some types of abstract pattern-matching tasks using only the puzzles themselves, challenging conventional wisdom about how machine learning systems acquire problem-solving abilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can lossless information compression by itself produce intelligent behavior?&#8221; ask <a href=\"https:\/\/iliao2345.github.io\/\">Isaac Liao<\/a>, a first-year PhD student, and his advisor Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=DVCHv1kAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Albert Gu<\/a> from CMU&#8217;s Machine Learning Department. Their work suggests the answer might be yes. To demonstrate, they created <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/iliao2345\/CompressARC\">CompressARC<\/a> and published the results in a <a href=\"https:\/\/iliao2345.github.io\/blog_posts\/arc_agi_without_pretraining\/arc_agi_without_pretraining.html\">comprehensive post<\/a> on Liao&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The pair tested their approach on the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (<a href=\"https:\/\/arcprize.org\/arc\">ARC-AGI<\/a>), an unbeaten visual benchmark created in 2019 by machine learning researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran%C3%A7ois_Chollet\">Fran\u00e7ois Chollet<\/a> to test AI systems&#8217; abstract reasoning skills. ARC presents systems with grid-based image puzzles where each provides several examples demonstrating an underlying rule, and the system must infer that rule to apply it to a new example.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/03\/compression-conjures-apparent-intelligence-in-new-puzzle-solving-ai-approach\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/03\/compression-conjures-apparent-intelligence-in-new-puzzle-solving-ai-approach\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Carnegie Mellon University researchers recently discovered hints that the process of compressing information can solve complex reasoning tasks without pre-training on a large number of examples. Their system tackles some types of abstract pattern-matching tasks using only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}