"The unreasonable effectiveness of our first foray into training leads us to believe that the graph model is uniquely  positioned to facilitate ML-guided generation of compressors. We are tempted to view this as “the next big thing” in production-scale compression. Whereas compression research has up to now eluded those without domain expertise, we believe the future of application-specific compressors will be unlocked via investment in automated learning methods."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09928 [11 May 2026] OpenZL: Using Graphs to Compress Smaller and Faster