Byte pair encoding
Also: BPE
A way of building a vocabulary: start from single bytes and repeatedly merge the most frequent adjacent pair into a new symbol. Common words end up as one token, rare ones are spelled out in pieces, and nothing can ever be out of vocabulary.
A definition is not an understanding. This is taught properly in The pretraining pipeline, end to end, part of Pretraining.
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