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title: "ICLR2025 Kilani: MrT5 Tokenizer-Free"
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhiclr2025_kilani_mrt5_tokenizer_free/
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Motivation ByteT5 is very expensive (because you have to have a residual on every damn token)
MrT5 MrT5 uses a soft attention masking gate at pretraining time to delete unused tokens; at inference time we use a hard cut.
Cool: MrT5 learns language independent compression rate (different languages have different rates).
