Objective vs. Search: Decomposing What Makes a Good Tokeniser
arXiv:2609.19145v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Two dominant tokenisation algorithms are used by modern language models: byte-pair encoding (BPE) and UnigramLM. These differ along two orthogonal axes: their optimisation objective (compression vs…
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AuthorAhmetcan Yavuz, Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel