Byte H-Net shows 2.24x compute efficiency on code, with caveats on scaling
willdepue · x · 2026-10-29
The chart compares Byte H-Net vs BPE Transformer on code: 2.24× compute multiplier on Python (BPE needs over 2x the compute to match H-Net's loss), with gains across languages. The authors argue this matters for OOD code like DSLs, kernel programming, and hardware abstraction layers.
willdepue cautions: a 2x CE win at this scale often shrinks as you scale up, but 50% CE advantage seems reasonable if the systems don't suck.
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