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2026-09-11
arxiv.org
large-language-models
AI Capability signal: Distilled 1B-parameter byte models eventually beat token models of the same size. Token-1B wins in the low-FLOP regime then plateaus; byt...
A September 11, 2026 arXiv paper (2609.12303) reports that distilled byte-level transformer models with roughly 1 billion parameters eventually surpass token-based models of the same size, reaching a …