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Meaning of byte pair encoding | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. 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
  2. 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

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

byte-order mark bytecode byter Bytes bytestring bytewise

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