byte-pair encoding

A form of byte pair encoding — A lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not already present in the data.

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Meanings

nounbyte-pair encoding (countable and uncountable, plural byte-pair encodings)

plural byte-pair encodings

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of byte pair encoding
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