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byte pair encodings

byte pair encodings is the plural 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.

Questions about byte pair encodings

What is byte pair encodings the plural of?
Byte pair encodings is the plural of byte pair encoding.

Words near byte pair encodings in the dictionary

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

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