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byte pair encoding

byte pair encoding 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.

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
alternative formbyte-pair encoding

Questions about byte pair encoding

What does byte pair encoding mean?
Byte pair encoding means 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.
What part of speech is byte pair encoding?
Byte pair encoding is a noun.
What is the plural of byte pair encoding?
The plural of byte pair encoding is byte pair encodings.

Words near byte pair encoding in the dictionary

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

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