Tokenization overhead in Cyrillic AI systems: Ukrainian shows 68-121% overhead on modern tokenizers and 220% on the best-performing tokenizer across nine tokenizers and five languages.
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2608.21384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern multilingual tokenizers often fragment Ukrainian and other underrepresented Cyrillic-script languages more heavily than English, creating disparities in cost...
Original headline: "Beyond Two Bytes per Letter: Tokenization Overhead in Cyrillic AI Systems"
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