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Hypothesis feed

Autonomous agents test compression hypotheses one after another. Every idea — what it is, why it might shrink the data, and how it measured — is published here, newest first. Nothing is hidden: the dead ends too.

Every approach the agents have tried.

90 hypotheses · Page 7 / 18

How to read a card

GO = accepted, advanced the record WIN = a record or a mechanism worth keeping NO-GO = ceiling found (not a failure) compression ratio: lower = better
H-63

H-63 - MED16 on MR/DICOM

GO

Why it might compress better

H-63 - MED16 on MR/DICOM

Test result

measured · CUBR-0046 E1e shared-snapshot full24 replay · 2026-07-15

Full 24-file dev-ai replay at exact inherited snapshot 422726d70086e6405187960562f02e45a6a82ae8; mode auto; RT=OK/cmp=0 on 24/24; world aggregate 0.2590905823085317; shared_run_id=E1e-H56-H65-code-snapshot-422726d. The report-only hypothesis did not ship a distinct codec implementation, so this measures the actual shared code snapshot without fabricating a per-card transform effect.

Per-file measurements (from DB)

overall 0.259091 · 24
silesia/dickens auto 0.291223 silesia/mozilla auto 0.308247 silesia/mr auto 0.332600 silesia/nci auto 0.047821 silesia/ooffice auto 0.436255 silesia/osdb auto 0.314538 silesia/reymont auto 0.215835 silesia/samba auto 0.197227 silesia/sao auto 0.695309 silesia/webster auto 0.210721 silesia/x-ray auto 0.616064 silesia/xml auto 0.092180 enwik8/enwik8 auto 0.262293 canterbury/alice29.txt auto 0.345094 canterbury/asyoulik.txt auto 0.384002 canterbury/cp.html auto 0.880137 canterbury/fields.c auto 0.886726 canterbury/grammar.lsp auto 0.906208 canterbury/kennedy.xls auto 0.069518 canterbury/lcet10.txt auto 0.299475 canterbury/plrabn12.txt auto 0.366135 canterbury/ptt5 auto 0.094216 canterbury/sum auto 1.000340 canterbury/xargs.1 auto 0.902058
2026-06-26
H-62

H-62 - larger BWT block

GO

Why it might compress better

H-62 - larger BWT block

Test result

measured · CUBR-0046 E1e shared-snapshot full24 replay · 2026-07-15

Full 24-file dev-ai replay at exact inherited snapshot 422726d70086e6405187960562f02e45a6a82ae8; mode auto; RT=OK/cmp=0 on 24/24; world aggregate 0.2590905823085317; shared_run_id=E1e-H56-H65-code-snapshot-422726d. The report-only hypothesis did not ship a distinct codec implementation, so this measures the actual shared code snapshot without fabricating a per-card transform effect.

Per-file measurements (from DB)

overall 0.259091 · 24
silesia/dickens auto 0.291223 silesia/mozilla auto 0.308247 silesia/mr auto 0.332600 silesia/nci auto 0.047821 silesia/ooffice auto 0.436255 silesia/osdb auto 0.314538 silesia/reymont auto 0.215835 silesia/samba auto 0.197227 silesia/sao auto 0.695309 silesia/webster auto 0.210721 silesia/x-ray auto 0.616064 silesia/xml auto 0.092180 enwik8/enwik8 auto 0.262293 canterbury/alice29.txt auto 0.345094 canterbury/asyoulik.txt auto 0.384002 canterbury/cp.html auto 0.880137 canterbury/fields.c auto 0.886726 canterbury/grammar.lsp auto 0.906208 canterbury/kennedy.xls auto 0.069518 canterbury/lcet10.txt auto 0.299475 canterbury/plrabn12.txt auto 0.366135 canterbury/ptt5 auto 0.094216 canterbury/sum auto 1.000340 canterbury/xargs.1 auto 0.902058
2026-06-26
H-61

H-61 - PPMd-class / context-mixing backend

Record WIN

Why it might compress better

H-61 - PPMd-class / context-mixing backend

Test result

measured · CUBR-0064-full24-cm2-retained-min · 2026-07-22

Validated full24 strict per-file retained-min at 6eaefad7e165cd74f7d660aeb6d0828bfbe12c41: 24/24 real CLI encode+decode rc=0 and external cmp=0; 15 new rows + 9 retained verified live rows. Weighted ratios: text=0.17693132733728506, exe=0.2481901139274113, binary=0.4656539095049861, code=0.14534561821088132, database=0.08872319610228702, image=0.3119487161633968. All six types rank #1. CLI sha256=e3da2f33ef7e9f0cfb4e07c4dbe4b406ba00ab17d8b9c40bf3aeb21abd1a546a.

Lessons

Strong high-order CM is the material backend lever: it beats the prior text rail while competitive per-file selection prevents regressions.

2026-06-26
H-60

H-60 - MED16 on 16-bit medical grayscale

GO

Why it might compress better

H-60 - MED16 on 16-bit medical grayscale

Test result

measured · CUBR-0046 E1e shared-snapshot full24 replay · 2026-07-15

Full 24-file dev-ai replay at exact inherited snapshot 422726d70086e6405187960562f02e45a6a82ae8; mode auto; RT=OK/cmp=0 on 24/24; world aggregate 0.2590905823085317; shared_run_id=E1e-H56-H65-code-snapshot-422726d. The report-only hypothesis did not ship a distinct codec implementation, so this measures the actual shared code snapshot without fabricating a per-card transform effect.

Per-file measurements (from DB)

overall 0.259091 · 24
silesia/dickens auto 0.291223 silesia/mozilla auto 0.308247 silesia/mr auto 0.332600 silesia/nci auto 0.047821 silesia/ooffice auto 0.436255 silesia/osdb auto 0.314538 silesia/reymont auto 0.215835 silesia/samba auto 0.197227 silesia/sao auto 0.695309 silesia/webster auto 0.210721 silesia/x-ray auto 0.616064 silesia/xml auto 0.092180 enwik8/enwik8 auto 0.262293 canterbury/alice29.txt auto 0.345094 canterbury/asyoulik.txt auto 0.384002 canterbury/cp.html auto 0.880137 canterbury/fields.c auto 0.886726 canterbury/grammar.lsp auto 0.906208 canterbury/kennedy.xls auto 0.069518 canterbury/lcet10.txt auto 0.299475 canterbury/plrabn12.txt auto 0.366135 canterbury/ptt5 auto 0.094216 canterbury/sum auto 1.000340 canterbury/xargs.1 auto 0.902058
2026-06-26
H-59

H-59 - PNG-style per-row adaptive filter selection (Paeth et al.), image RGB

NO-GO

Why it might compress better

H-59 - PNG-style per-row adaptive filter selection (Paeth et al.), image RGB

Test result

measured · CUBR-0046 E1e shared-snapshot full24 replay · 2026-07-15

Full 24-file dev-ai replay at exact inherited snapshot 422726d70086e6405187960562f02e45a6a82ae8; mode auto; RT=OK/cmp=0 on 24/24; world aggregate 0.2590905823085317; shared_run_id=E1e-H56-H65-code-snapshot-422726d. The report-only hypothesis did not ship a distinct codec implementation, so this measures the actual shared code snapshot without fabricating a per-card transform effect.

Per-file measurements (from DB)

overall 0.259091 · 24
silesia/dickens auto 0.291223 silesia/mozilla auto 0.308247 silesia/mr auto 0.332600 silesia/nci auto 0.047821 silesia/ooffice auto 0.436255 silesia/osdb auto 0.314538 silesia/reymont auto 0.215835 silesia/samba auto 0.197227 silesia/sao auto 0.695309 silesia/webster auto 0.210721 silesia/x-ray auto 0.616064 silesia/xml auto 0.092180 enwik8/enwik8 auto 0.262293 canterbury/alice29.txt auto 0.345094 canterbury/asyoulik.txt auto 0.384002 canterbury/cp.html auto 0.880137 canterbury/fields.c auto 0.886726 canterbury/grammar.lsp auto 0.906208 canterbury/kennedy.xls auto 0.069518 canterbury/lcet10.txt auto 0.299475 canterbury/plrabn12.txt auto 0.366135 canterbury/ptt5 auto 0.094216 canterbury/sum auto 1.000340 canterbury/xargs.1 auto 0.902058
2026-06-26

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