Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens | Research - AI at Meta

We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at...

Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens | Research - AI at Meta Products AI Research Resources About Meta Model API Try Meta AI NLP Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens December 12, 2024 Abstract We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at scale with significant improvements in inference efficiency and robustness. BLT encodes bytes into dynamically sized patches, which serve as the primary units of computation. Patches are segmented dynamically ba

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