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Byte Pair Encoding

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Subword algorithm iteratively merging frequent symbol pairs to build a compact tokenizer vocabulary.

Definition

Subword algorithm iteratively merging frequent symbol pairs to build a compact tokenizer vocabulary.

Plain English explanation

BPE builds vocab by merging common pairs.

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