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Character counting errors are a side effect of tokenization, which is a performance optimization. If we scaled the hardware big enough we could train on raw byt
by mrob 5mo ago
Character counting errors are a side effect of tokenization, which is a performance optimization. If we scaled the hardware big enough we could train on raw bytes and avoid it.
- teiferer 5mo agoNo, tokenization is not the only reason. A next-word predictor has fundamentally a hard time executing algorithms, even as simple as counting.
- mitthrowaway2 5mo agoCounting is one of the algorithms that can be expressed by a RASP program, which transformers closely approximate.
- MarkusQ 5mo agoClose famously counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. Algorithms, just as famously, are a domain where off-by-one is still wrong.