<story><title>Compressing Images with Neural Networks</title><url>https://mlumiste.com/technical/compression-deep-learning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>StiffFreeze9</author><text>How badly will its lossy-ness change critical things? In 2013, there were Xerox copiers with aggressive compression that changed numbers, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;xerox_copier_flaw_means_dodgy_numbers_and_dangerous_designs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theregister.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;xerox_copier_flaw_mea...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Compressing Images with Neural Networks</title><url>https://mlumiste.com/technical/compression-deep-learning/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Dwedit</author><text>There was an earlier article (Sep 20, 2022) about using the Stable Diffusion VAE to perform image compression.  Uses the VAE to change from pixel space to latent space, dithers the latent space down to 256 colors, then when it&amp;#x27;s time to decompress it, it de-noises that.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pub.towardsai.net&amp;#x2F;stable-diffusion-based-image-compresssion-6f1f0a399202?gi=7b867b7b4c10&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pub.towardsai.net&amp;#x2F;stable-diffusion-based-image-compr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;HN discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32907494&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=32907494&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>