GQ-VAE: A Novel Tokenizer for Language Models
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •Proposes GQ-VAE, a novel architecture for learned neural tokenization.
- •GQ-VAE learns variable-length discrete tokens.
- •Improves compression and language modeling performance compared to VQ-VAE.
- •Approaches BPE performance in compression and language modeling.
- •Offers a drop-in replacement for existing tokenizers.
“GQ-VAE improves compression and language modeling performance over a standard VQ-VAE tokenizer, and approaches the compression rate and language modeling performance of BPE.”