Meta trained small AI models to read raw bytes instead of tokens; they start worse but the paper predicts they end up better
Read the original at www.reddit.com→https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.12303 this paper suggests a model that skips models reading tokens that and has the model read raw bytes, basically one letter at a time. what they did: trained small models (~1B params),...
Original headline: "Meta trained small AI models to read raw bytes instead of tokens. They start out worse, but the paper predicts they end up better"
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- Oct 24, 13:08 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Meta trained small AI models to read raw bytes instead of tokens. They start out worse, but the paper predicts they end up better