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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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?
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