NNCP
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7recommend
1warn against
Nov 5, 2025first mention
Oct 31, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I stumbled upon this neural net compressor by Bellard that beats gzip on compression benchmarks”
“in case sneakernet solutions are ever needed”
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“NNCP, a Neural Networks driven lossless data compression system”
“Learn about NNCP in order to tunnel messages over it, really useful for asynchronous connections”
“This misses the very best compressors by Fabrice Bellard.”
Caveats and dissent
“xz decompresses twelve thousand times faster (50MB/s vs. 4kB/s) when nncp has an Nvidia RTX 3090”
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“I stumbled upon this neural net compressor by Bellard that beats gzip on compression benchmarks”
“NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks (2019)”
“in case sneakernet solutions are ever needed”
“This looks like a partial reinvention of NNCP's sneakernet transport”
“Fabrice Bellard did something with neural nets and a transformer model [1] that was very successful.”
“NNCP, a Neural Networks driven lossless data compression system”
“Learn about NNCP in order to tunnel messages over it, really useful for asynchronous connections”
“xz decompresses twelve thousand times faster (50MB/s vs. 4kB/s) when nncp has an Nvidia RTX 3090”
“This misses the very best compressors by Fabrice Bellard.”
“or nncp compress really well they are extremely slow”
“NNCP (Note-to-Node Copy)[0] would be useful”
“nncp-2024-06-05.tar.gz is just 1180969 bytes, unlike ts_zip-2024-03-02.tar.gz”
“I run Yggdrasil on that, and NNCP too among other tools.”
“Get into a protocol like NNCP https://www.complete.org/nncp/”
“his Transformer-based `nncp` is indeed #1”
“Goerzen from https://complete.org creating NNCP and a bunch of nice tools”