Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
No tokenizer — bytes group into entropy-sized patches, and patches scale better than tokens.
Pagnoni et al. · arXiv 2024 · Model Architectures. Read the paper ↗
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Questions
- What is Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens?
- No tokenizer — bytes group into entropy-sized patches, and patches scale better than tokens.
- Who published Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens, and where?
- Pagnoni et al. — arXiv 2024 (arXiv:2412.09871).
- Where can I find a visual explainer of Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens?
- Right here — a free, interactive, animated walkthrough of the whole paper, with exhibits computed from the real formulas and verbatim quotes from the source.
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