Topic

Byte-pair encoding

A compression algorithm from 1994, adapted for language models in 2016, that builds a sub-word vocabulary by repeatedly merging the most frequent adjacent pair in a corpus and replaying those merges in rank order when encoding.

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tiktoken keeps its only byte-pair trainer in a file named _educational.py

Encoding replays an ordered merge list that was learned once, before training. Swap the list and the weights still load, but the model you tested is gone.

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Reality

Evidence74
Adoption45
Hype gap+5
Incentives32
Confidence66