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Re:The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization by samus on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @08:16PM (#44372446)
Shouldn't production models already do this? They already tend to use tokenizers with complex rules to deal with a lot of input that would otherwise be tokenized in a suboptimal way. I recall a bug in an inference engine (maybe llama.cpp?) because of an implementation difference in their regex engine compared to the model trainer. Which means that the tokenizer used regex-based rules to chop up the input.
Re:The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization by search_facility on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @05:15PM (#44381905)
turns out - no, by intuition they should do this for sure - but no.

UPD: Found the paper: - https://huggingface.co/papers/2502.09741 - https://fouriernumber.github.io/

in paper mentioned “number” is a single sort-of “token” with numeric value, so network dealing with numbers like real numbers, separately from char representation. All the math happens directly on “number value”. In majority of current models numbers are handled like sequences of chars