Rank #747 10,831 starsPython

minbpe

by karpathy (personal account)

Minimal, clean code for the Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm commonly used in LLM tokenization. (description from the project’s GitHub page)

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Stars: 10,831
Forks: 1,118
Open issues and pull requests: 59
Primary language: Python
License: MIT License (MIT)
Owner: karpathy · Personal account
Created: Feb 16, 2024
Last push: Jul 1, 2024

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