Byte Latent Transformer ; Meta’s Tokenizer-Free LLM for Raw Byte Understanding 🔥

Byte Latent Transformer (BLT) from Meta —a large language model that ditches tokenization and directly processes raw byte data! 🔥

What is unique about BLT:

🔍 Dynamic byte grouping: Uses predicted entropy to create patches, allocating more computation to complex text sections.
⚡ Efficiency and robustness: Matches the performance of tokenization-based models while being more efficient and handling noisy input with ease.
📈 Scaling: Demonstrated through a comprehensive scaling study, showcasing BLT’s enhanced performance, especially in tasks requiring sub-word understanding.

The research also explores leveraging pre-trained models to further optimize BLT training, paving the way for even further advancements. 🚀

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