Breaking the token ceiling: distilling smaller, stronger Byte models
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2609.12303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small models are made more capable through distillation from a larger one that shares their tokenization scheme. However, do distilled byte and token models behave...
Original headline: "Breaking the Token Ceiling: Distilling Smaller, Stronger Byte Models"
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