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Study disentangles what tokenizer comparisons measure in Amharic and Hausa

A new arXiv paper examines whether morphology-aware tokenizers truly outperform BPE for morphologically rich languages, arguing reported gains conflate granularity, root assignment, and word-level readout in Amharic and Hausa.

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  1. 2026-11-13 05:00 · arXiv cs.CL
    What Do Tokenizer Comparisons Measure? Disentangling Granularity, Root Assignment, and Word-Level Readout across Amharic and Hausa

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