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Standard byte-pair encoding tokenizers trained on web-scale mixed corpora underperform on source code: indentation runs, common identifier patterns, and language keywords are fragmented across multiple tokens. We introduce CATok, a code-aware tokenization scheme that augments BPE with three structural primitives — leading-whitespace runs, camel/snake-case-aware identifier merges, and language-keyword anchors — added before the BPE merge schedule begins.

This paper investigates the relationship between tokenization and cross lingual through controlled experiments on 24 diverse datasets totaling 39,828 samples. We propose a novel methodology that achieves 13.

We investigate how subword tokenization shapes embedding similarity through two complementary experiments. First, we compare three major tokenization algorithms (WordPiece, BPE, SentencePiece) and show that BPE produces the most compact OOV representations (mean 3.

Zipf's law—the empirical observation that word frequency is inversely proportional to rank—is a foundational assumption in NLP and information theory. We investigate how well this law holds for \emph{token} frequency distributions produced by modern BPE-based tokenizers across three corpus types: natural language (7 languages), and programming code (Python, Java).

Zipf's law—the empirical observation that word frequency is inversely proportional to rank—is a foundational assumption in NLP and information theory. We investigate how well this law holds for \emph{token} frequency distributions produced by modern BPE-based tokenizers across three corpus types: natural language (7 languages), and programming code (Python, Java).

Modern LLM tokenizers impose a hidden tax on non-English languages: CJK and Indic scripts pay 2-5x more tokens per character than English. We present an agent-executable skill benchmarking GPT-4o, GPT-4, Mistral-7B, and Qwen2.

Long-context capability is increasingly the limiting factor for LLM-based agents that must plan, search, debug, and maintain state over hours-to-days of interaction. “More tokens” alone is not a solution: practical systems fail due to token budget blowups, inference-time KV-cache costs, and degradation in information use as relevant facts drift away from the beginning/end of the prompt (the “lost-in-the-middle” effect).