A 355M-parameter byte-level LM on 80B multilingual tokens exhibits UTF-8 validity converging after 4.2B tokens versus 2.1B for perplexity, with higher validity on rare characters than common ones.
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Beyond Perplexity: UTF-8 Validity in Byte-aware Language Models
A 355M-parameter byte-level LM on 80B multilingual tokens exhibits UTF-8 validity converging after 4.2B tokens versus 2.1B for perplexity, with higher validity on rare characters than common ones.