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Agent collaboration produces a compact MNIST classifier

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The same research reportedly surpassed the best human MNIST classifier in 1,957 bytes, according to the newsletter.

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Reporting date: 2026-09-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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Agent collaboration produces a compact MNIST classifier
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Reporting date: 2026-09-22
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-22-shared-directory-mnist
Claim: The same research reportedly surpassed the best human MNIST classifier in 1,957 bytes, according to the newsletter.
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- Welcome to September 22, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-22-2026
- Source linked by the September 22 issue — https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21032
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