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Byte-pair encoding

In computing, byte-pair encoding (BPE), or digram coding, is an algorithm, first described in 1994 by Philip Gage, for encoding strings of text into smaller strings by creating and using a translation table. A slightly modified version of the algorithm is used in large language model tokenizers.

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Modified algorithm

Language modelingGPT-3.5GPT-4N-gramsUTF-8
8 related topics

Original algorithm

Recursive
1 related topics

Overview

ComputingAlgorithmLarge language modelBytesLookup table
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Byte-pair encoding

Nodes18
Edges17
Triples0
Avg. degree1.89
Density0.111111
Components1

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algorithm bpe text vocabulary modified tokens original table encoded encoding version bytes size would used language pair characters initial example

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