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2026-09-12
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BPE-Style Tokenizers: The Small Algorithm That Decides What an LLM Can See
Shrijith Venkatramana, an engineer building the AI code review tool LiveReview, traces modern LLM tokenization back to Byte Pair Encoding, a 1994 data-compression algorithm by Philip Gage. The writeup…