From Words to Tokens: The Byte-Pair Encoding Algorithm
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The AiEdge Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Why do we keep talking about "tokens" in LLMs instead of words? It happens to be much more efficient to break the words into sub-words (tokens) for model performance!
From Words to Tokens: The Byte-Pair Encoding Algorithm
From Words to Tokens: The Byte-Pair Encoding…
From Words to Tokens: The Byte-Pair Encoding Algorithm
The AiEdge Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Why do we keep talking about "tokens" in LLMs instead of words? It happens to be much more efficient to break the words into sub-words (tokens) for model performance!