Technical discussion on LLM vocab bottlenecks: smaller vocab, longer sequences?

LChoshen · x · 2026-08-18

A technical discussion involving researchers LChoshen and Yoav Artzi explores issues with current LLM vocabularies. The debate considers whether reducing vocabulary size and increasing sequence length could address signal bottlenecks. Yoav suggests this might be a potential direction, though not a perfect solution, while also noting the cost disadvantages for non-English languages.

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