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Tokenization
AI Glossary Term
What does “
Tokenization
” mean?
Definition
The process of splitting text into tokens for model input.
Related terms
Context Window
The maximum amount of input tokens a language model can process at once.
BPE (Byte Pair Encoding)
A subword tokenization algorithm that merges the most frequent character pairs into reusable tokens.
Encoder
The component of a model that transforms input into latent representations.
Multimodal Model
A model that can process or generate multiple data types such as text, image, and audio.
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Technology that converts text in images or scans into machine-readable text.
SentencePiece
A language-agnostic tokenizer that learns subword units directly from raw text without pre-splitting on whitespace.
Learn more in our free guides
SentencePiece Tokenization
WordPiece Tokenization
Tokenization
Subword Tokenization
See also
Token
Tool Use
Temperature
Top-k Sampling
System Prompt
Top-p (Nucleus) Sampling
Synthetic Data
Transfer Learning
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