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Overview

• Introduces a novel byte encoding scheme called MYTE (Morphology-Driven Byte Encoding) for multilingual language models
• Aims to improve the performance and fairness of these models across diverse languages
• Leverages morphological information to encode characters more effectively than standard UTF-8 encoding

Plain English Explanation

MYTE is a new way of encoding text for use in multilingual language models - the large AI systems that can understand and generate human language. Current models often use a standard encodin...

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