New arXiv paper examines scaling and emergent abstractions in byte-level language models
yogthos · reddit · 2026-10-11
A Reddit post shares the arXiv paper "Byte Language Models: Scaling, Emergent Abstractions, and Information Allocation," which studies tokenizer-free byte-level LMs—their scaling behavior, emergent abstractions, and how information is allocated across the model, an alternative route that sidesteps tokenizer biases.
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