AIHacker Noonabout 1 hour ago
Tiny Sanskrit GPT Reveals Tokenization Trap
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A developer built a ~250-line transformer GPT for Sanskrit in a weekend. Code-point tokenization shattered Devanagari syllables, so grapheme splitting via regex \X was used, cutting sequence length 44% and making invalid output unrepresentable. Data extraction from PDFs proved harder than modeling.
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