Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have become the standard architecture for frontier LLMs. The multiple parallel experts in each transformer block theoretically enable expert specialization according to categories such as domains, languages, or modalities during pretraining. However, when data is imbalanced across catego...
A. Tarun, Clara Meister, Antoine Bosselut· 0 citations
Tokenizer choice affects multilingual language modeling, but vocabulary capacity is finite and vocabulary size is often constrained: improving representation for some languages often comes at the expense of others. We therefore ask whether tokenizer choice matters equally across languages, a question that the current l...
Clara Meister, G. S. Altintas, Antoine Bosselut· 0 citations
TokEval is introduced, a framework of tokenizer evaluation metrics that goes beyond standard measures like fertility and compression rate to capture linguistically and structurally meaningful properties, e.g., UTF-8 character boundary integrity and digit place-value boundary alignment for mathematics.
This work introduces an alternative to standard whitespace conventions using an explicit word boundary marker, which prevents duplication in subword tokenizers, and suggests that duplication carries a cost that compression does not capture.
Language model tokenizers are typically selected with minimal evaluation, despite the fact that their design choices directly impact model capabilities. This can be partly attributed to a limited understanding of which tokenizer properties affect which aspects of downstream performance. We introduce TokEval, a framewor...
Clara Meister· 0 citations
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