Comment by skylerwiernik
1 year ago
Couldn't we just make every human readable character a token?
OpenAI's tokenizer makes "chess" "ch" and "ess". We could just make it into "c" "h" "e" "s" "s"
1 year ago
Couldn't we just make every human readable character a token?
OpenAI's tokenizer makes "chess" "ch" and "ess". We could just make it into "c" "h" "e" "s" "s"
We can, tokenization is literally just to maximize resources and provide as much "space" as possible in the context window.
There is no advantage to tokenization, it just helps solve limitations in context windows and training.
I like this explanation
This is just more tokens? And probably requires the model to learn about common groups. Consider, "ess" makes sense to see as a group. "Wss" does not.
That is, the groups are encoding something the model doesn't have to learn.
This is not much astray from "sight words" we teach kids.
No, actually much fewer tokens. 256 tokens cover all bytes. See the ByT5 paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13626
More tokens to a sequence, though. And since it is learning sequences...
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This is just more tokens?
Yup. Just let the actual ML git gud
So, put differently, this is just more expensive?
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aka Character Language Models which have existed for a while now.