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Today we introduce T-Free, a new paradigm in language processing. Tokenization is one of the core building blocks of large language models (LLMs), transforming natural language into numeric representations for further processing. (1/3) 🔗 #writtenbyalephalpha

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Our innovation, T-Free, offers a novel approach to tokenization, boosting tokenizer fertility across various languages, and reducing the size of the embedding layer by up to 75% compared to traditional tokenizers. Early experiments with T-Free show promising results and could unlock new possibilities in LLMs, including: - Up to 50% reduction in training and inference costs - Improved semantic encoding of language - Enhanced performance in multilingual models (2/3)

Aleph Alpha1 year ago

Read our full paper here: Dive into the source code of T-Free: Try out our interim research model checkpoints: (3/3)

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