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Breaking the Token Ceiling: Distilling Smaller, Stronger Byte Models

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arXiv:2609.12303v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Small models are made more capable through distillation from a larger one that shares their tokenization scheme. However, do distilled byte and token models behave similarly in terms of scaling trends as compute and data increases? To enable this comp…

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  1. 2026-09-14 04:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    Breaking the Token Ceiling: Distilling Smaller, Stronger Byte Models

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