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tokenization

TOH-ken-ih-ZAY-shun

ˌtoʊkənɪˈzeɪʃən

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tokenization

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the process of splitting text into smaller units called tokens — words, subwords, or characters — that can be processed by a language model; subword tokenization methods such as byte-pair encoding allow models to handle rare and out-of-vocabulary words by breaking them into known subword units

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