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New Latent Core Tokenizer prioritizes linguistic structure over compression

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Researchers have introduced the Latent Core Tokenizer (LCT), a novel language-agnostic method for creating tokenizers that prioritizes meaningful linguistic unit discovery over simple compression. Unlike traditional methods like byte-pair encoding (BPE) and Unigram, LCT employs Minimum Description Length and morphotactic constraints to identify reusable units before vocabulary construction. In evaluations across 104 languages, LCT demonstrated superior performance in terms of fertility and MorphScore compared to existing methods, while also showing comparable cross-lingual disparity. Furthermore, LCT improved aggregate scores on multilingual downstream benchmarks by up to 2.00 points over its predecessors, suggesting that compression alone is not sufficient for optimal representation quality. AI

IMPACT This new tokenizer approach could lead to more efficient and accurate multilingual natural language processing models.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Felermino D. M. A. Ali, Millicent Ochieng, Ogbemi Ekwejunor-Etchie, Ade Famoti, Jacki O'Neill, Debjit Paul ·

    Latent Core Tokenizer: Compress, but Meaningfully

    arXiv:2610.12376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tokenizers are commonly optimized for compression, but a compact vocabulary does not necessarily distribute its capacity evenly across languages. We introduce the Latent Core Tokenizer (LCT), a language-agnostic approach that separa…

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