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byte pair encoding

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables
byte -pair en-cod-ing
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not already present in the data.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A subword tokenization method that iteratively merges the most frequent pairs of adjacent characters in a corpus to form longer and more meaningful tokens, typically until a predefined vocabulary size is reached.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

byte pair encodings (plural) byte-pair encoding (alternative)

Questions

What does byte pair encoding mean?
A lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not already present in the data.

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