Sampling from Your Language Model One Byte at a Time

This paper presents a method to convert autoregressive language models with BPE tokenizers into character-level models, addressing tokenization issues and enabling model interoperability and improved performance through ensemble and proxy-tuning.

https://arxiv.org/abs//2506.14123

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