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PureByte: Throwing away tokenizers for a 256-byte vocabulary. A 1.9M-parameter specialist beating 400M general models on CPU

We just released PureByte, an open-source paper and codebase exploring task-specific byte-level neural architectures and zero-dependency CPU inference: Paper (DOI): https://zenodo.org/records/23020056 Code (C++20 & PyTorch): https://github.com/purebyte-ai/purebyte Training repo: https://github.com/…

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  1. 2026-09-28 19:23 · r/learnmachinelearning
    PureByte: Throwing away tokenizers for a 256-byte vocabulary. A 1.9M-parameter specialist beating 400M general models on CPU

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