BPE-Style Tokenizers: The Small Algorithm That Decides What an LLM Can See

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A word-level tokenizer therefore needs some fallback mechanism. How BPE learns its vocabulary First, pretend our base vocabulary consists of individual characters. The tokenizer vocabulary is largely a compressed dictionary of frequently useful byte sequences. 4.

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