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  1. Reference
  2. Tokenizer

Glossary

Tokenizer

The component that splits text into tokens and maps them to integer ids, and back. Each model family has its own, so count tokens with the tokenizer of the model you call.

Where it is explained

  • Tokenization and embeddingsLLM foundations

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Byte-pair encoding (BPE)
  • Embedding table
  • Token
  • Vocabulary
  • Embedding
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