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PublishedAugust 28, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Vowel Signs Are Not Letters: A Pre-tokenization Ceiling on Multilingual Tokenizer Fertility
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arXiv:2608.26449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Byte-level BPE tokenizers that use the HuggingFace ByteLevel pre-tokenizer inherit GPT-2's word regex, where a word is defined as \p{L}+, one or more Unicode letters. In abugida scripts, vowels are written as combining marks; this pattern therefore spl
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