@article{opticalcontextcompressionisjustbadautoen, title = {Optical Context Compression Is Just (Bad) Autoencoding}, author = {Ivan Yee Lee and Cheng Yang and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2512.03643}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03643}, }