3 papers
cs.CL2026
Nested Byte-Level Vocabularies Are Cheap to Deploy and Expensive to Share: A Pre-Registered Negative Result
Christos Koutsiaris
A byte-level BPE tokenizer is an ordered list of merge rules, so applying only a prefix yields a vocabulary whose token identifiers are the first rows of the full vocabulary. This…
cs.IR2026
Daedalus-150M: A Convolution-Attention Hybrid Designed for CPU Inference
Christos Koutsiaris
Small language models are usually built like large ones and then squeezed onto a CPU afterwards. We did the opposite: we fixed the target first, one user, one token at a time, 4-bi…
cs.IR2026
A Contextual Help Browser Extension to Assist Digital Illiterate Internet Users
Christos Koutsiaris
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a browser extension that provides contextual help to users who hover over technological acronyms and abbreviation…