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[–] UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember one time in a research project I switched out the tokeniser to see what impact it might have on my output. Spent about a day re-running and the difference was minimal. I imagine it's wholly the same thing.

*Disclaimer: I don't actually imagine it is wholly the same thing.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there's a research result that the precise tokeniser makes bugger all difference, it's almost entirely the data you put in

because LLMs are lossy compression for text

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago

latent space go brrrr