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Re:You Should Probably Pay Attention to Tokenizers by lechatonnoir on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:03AM (#41933603)
I mean, it's not completely fatal, but it means an approximately 16x increase in runtime cost, if I'm not mistaken. That's probably not worth trying to solve letter counting in most applications.
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Re:You Should Probably Pay Attention to Tokenizers by SEGyges on Friday October 25, 2024 @04:56PM (#41949679)
it is not necessarily 16x if you, e.g., decrease model width by a factor of 4 or so also, but yeah naively the RAM and FLOPs scale up by n^2
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