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byte-pair encoding

byte-pair encoding is the alternative form of byte pair encoding.

Meaning of byte pair encoding

Noun

byte pair encoding (countable and uncountable, plural byte pair encodings)

  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.
  2. (natural language processing) 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.

Forms of byte-pair encoding

pluralbyte-pair encodings

Questions about byte-pair encoding

What is byte-pair encoding the alternative form of?
Byte-pair encoding is the alternative form of byte pair encoding.

Words near byte-pair encoding in the dictionary

  1. byte order mark
  2. byte order marks
  3. byte pair encoding
  4. byte pair encodings
  5. byte-order mark
  6. byte-pair encoding
  7. byte-pair encodings
  8. bytecode
  9. bytecoded
  10. bytecodes
  11. byter

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