Search Results: Tokenization

A founding ML engineer reflects on the daunting reality of building production systems from scratch, drawing parallels to navigating dark tombs while confronting endless technical decisions. The journey reveals how tokenization becomes a microcosm of production challenges—from edge cases to dependency management—in modern AI infrastructure.

While LLMs are often described as predicting 'the next word,' they actually operate on tokens—discrete units that reshape how models understand language. This deep dive explores the evolution from word-based to subword tokenization, examines whether these units align with linguistic morphemes, and reveals surprising research on what tokens 'know' about their internal characters. Understanding tokenization is crucial for grasping the fundamental limitations and capabilities of modern AI systems.

A novel decentralized protocol now enables companies to transform API events into tradable tokens through proof-of-work mining. Deployed on BSC for near-zero transaction costs, PRFI offers cryptographic validation of real-world data streams while distributing rewards between businesses and its treasury.

A researcher has reimagined Morse code using neural networks and NLP techniques, creating NeuralMorse—a system that dynamically tokenizes text into sequences of eight tonal elements optimized for efficiency and learnability. By combining SentencePiece tokenization, word embeddings, and assignment problem optimization, it assigns semantically related tokens to similar-sounding symbols while prioritizing brevity for common words.