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Tokenization

The process of converting text or other input into discrete units that a model can process.

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Tokenization converts raw text into units called tokens. A token may represent a whole word, part of a word, punctuation, bytes, or other learned units depending on the tokenizer.

How it works

Modern language models commonly use subword or byte-oriented tokenization so a finite vocabulary can represent a wide range of text. The tokenizer maps tokens to numeric IDs that are then converted into vectors before entering the model.

Why it matters

Tokenization affects context length, cost, multilingual behavior, and how efficiently different strings are represented. Character count and token count are therefore not interchangeable.

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