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Comment by lelanthran

3 days ago

> An n-gram model’s defining constraint is: there exists a small constant k such that the next-token distribution depends only on the last k tokens, full stop.

I don't necessarily agree with GP, but I also don't think that a markov chain and markov generator definitions include the word "small".

That constant can be as large as you need it to be.

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