LLM

Question 1

What is Byte Pair Encoding

Answer 1

Byte-Pair Encoding is a tokenization algorithm that builds tokens from characters.

Once you’ve built your token vocabulary with BPE, it can be passed to a neural network for training.

Question 2

What is tokenization

Answer 2

Tokenization is essential for building a vocabulary that can be used to train a large language model. In practice, large language models are trained on hundreds of billions of tokens.