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# [2405.05417] Fishing for Magikarp: Automatically Detecting Under-trained Tokens in Large Language Models

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## Summary

A comprehensive analysis of Large Language Model (LLM) tokenizers is presented, focusing on the detection of untrained and under-trained tokens. The prevalence of such tokens across various models is demonstrated, along with insights for improving the efficiency and safety of language models.

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