3 papers
cs.CL2025
Back to Bytes: Revisiting Tokenization Through UTF-8
Amit Moryossef, Clara Meister, Pavel Stepachev +1
We present UTF8Tokenizer, a minimalist byte-level tokenizer that maps text exactly to IDs corresponding to the bytes underlying the text's UTF-8 encoding (e.g., byte x09 is token I…
cs.CL2025
An Expanded Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT)
Laurie Burchell, Ona de Gibert, Nikolay Arefyev +32
Training state-of-the-art large language models requires vast amounts of clean and diverse textual data. However, building suitable multilingual datasets remains a challenge. In th…
cs.CL2024
Context and System Fusion in Post-ASR Emotion Recognition with Large Language Models
Pavel Stepachev, Pinzhen Chen, Barry Haddow
Large language models (LLMs) have started to play a vital role in modelling speech and text. To explore the best use of context and multiple systems' outputs for post-ASR speech em…