Original Information Bottleneck paper was written in a day, researcher says
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-27
A researcher says the original Information Bottleneck paper was written in a single day because an invited paper was due for a conference the following Monday.
The post is a small but telling anecdote about how a foundational ML paper came together under deadline pressure.
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