Tokenization and text representation · MLD-0141
Byte-pair encoding
A tokenization method building larger units by repeatedly merging frequent adjacent pairs.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Construct a subword vocabulary.
Original caveat
Byte-level BPE and character-initialized BPE use different initial units.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Data · Training · Inference.
Tags: NLP · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: BPE.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- Hugging Face: chat templates ↗ · Reference link
- Transformers glossary ↗ · Consulted
- Hugging Face: tokenization algorithms ↗ · Consulted
- Original reference URL ↗