Blog Post Explains Why Tokenizer-Free Language Modeling Isn't Actually Tokenizer-Free
cjmaddison · x · 2026-07-29
A new blog post dives into the so-called "tokenizer-free" approach to language modeling. The author argues that this method isn't actually free of tokenizers and discusses the reasons why developers dislike traditional tokenizers so much.
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