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Timur Galimzyanov

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ML Researcher at JetBrains. NLP, ML for code.

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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...

While this is an intriguing approach to advancing transformers, note a major drawback: high latency due to character-level decoding, involving many sequential operations. This issue is mentioned in the limitations but is notably avoided in the main text.

ai.meta.com/research/pub...

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