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PublishedSeptember 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Removable and Irreducible: A Token-Cost Ledger for the Multilingual Tokenization Tax
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arXiv:2609.00378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models pay a well-documented tax on non-English text: the same content costs several times more tokens, and because attention is quadratic in sequence length, far more compute. We ask how much of this tax is removable. Framing the token
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