Byte-Pair Encoding: One Merge Step

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Unit 12 · LLMs & Tokenization0/2 to milestone

GPT-style tokenisers are trained with Byte-Pair Encoding: repeatedly find the most frequent adjacent pair of symbols and merge it into a new symbol.

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