Hand-crafted regex pretokenizers quietly do heavy lifting in every frontier LLM
YouJiacheng · x · 2026-10-24
Albert Gu notes that hand-crafted regexes are part of every frontier LLM's pretokenizer and do some pretty heavy lifting, sharing examples ahead of an upcoming release. Others chimed in that this is the most time-consuming part of building a tokenizer.
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