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Rank #747 10,831 starsPython

minbpe

by karpathy (personal account)

Minimal, clean code for the Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm commonly used in LLM tokenization. (description from the project’s GitHub page)

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Stars
10,831
Forks
1,118
Open issues and pull requests
59
Primary language
Python
License
MIT License (MIT)
Owner
karpathy · Personal account
Created
Feb 16, 2024
Last push
Jul 1, 2024

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