A model doesn't read text: what a tokenizer decides for you
Originally published at cchinchilla.dev . Part 1 of From code to weights, a 12-part series on ML fundamentals for engineers. A language model has never seen a letter. It sees integers. Somewhere between your string and the first matrix multiply there's a function that turns text into a list of ids,…
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- 2026-09-20 19:14 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
A model doesn't read text: what a tokenizer decides for you