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PublishedOctober 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Embeddings Are Overpriced? A Frozen 16 MB Vocabulary for Small and Ternary Language Models
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arXiv:2610.22428v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In a small language model the vocabulary is the single largest part. In Gemma 3 270M the embedding table holds 168M of 268M parameters, and because quantisation methods leave the embedding in 16-bit, it is also most of the file once the rest of the mod
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