Dynamic Multi-Byte Prediction With Hierarchical Language Models
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arXiv:2608.15454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Byte-level hierarchical language models (LMs) have recently emerged as a robust alternative to their popular counterparts that use subword tokenization. However, generating one byte at a time remains a bottleneck for inference speed. To address this, we introduce multi-byte prediction (MBP), which generates multiple bytes in parallel, speeding up inference with minimal performance impact and no additional parameters. MBP builds on the popular multi-token prediction (MTP) paradigm with two crucial innovations. First, we introduce a variable-length
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- arXiv:2608.15454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Byte-level hierarchical language models (LMs) have recently emerged as a robust alternative to their popular counterparts that use subword tokenization.
- However, generating one byte at a time remains a bottleneck for inference speed.
- To address this, we introduce multi-byte prediction (MBP), which generates multiple bytes in parallel, speeding up inference with minimal performance impact and no additional parameters.
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