Byte Pair Encoding
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A data compression technique adapted for language models, used to construct vocabularies tailored to data by merging frequent byte pairs.
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Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch | Spring 2026 | Lecture 1: Overview, Tokenization
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A data compression technique adapted for language models, used to construct vocabularies tailored to data by merging frequent byte pairs.

Stanford CS229 Machine Learning | Spring 2026 | Lecture 14: Transformers, In-Context Learning
Stanford Online
The algorithm used for tokenization, which identifies frequent subwords to build a vocabulary.