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Mimir: Large-scale Multilingual Concept Modeling

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arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

To Each Language Its Tokenizer: Modular Tokenizers for Efficient Multilingual LLMs

The paper proposes a modular tokenizer framework for multilingual large language models, allowing the creation of language‑specific subtokenizers that match monolingual compression quality. It introduces a pretraining strategy that samples these subtokenizers to limit predictions to relevant vocabularies, enabling efficient training and inference. This approach reduces memory usage and speeds up inference without compromising performance.

By Franck Signe, Hippolyte Pilchen, Fran\c{c}ois Yvon, \'Edouard Grave
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Rebalancing Token Importance in Language Models with TF-IDF Weighted Cross-Entropy Loss

The paper proposes an information-weighted cross‑entropy loss that rescales token contributions using TF‑IDF statistics, thereby emphasizing semantically informative tokens and down‑weighting ubiquitous ones. Experiments on five decoder‑only language models (1.1B–13B parameters) show consistent reductions in memorized substring length while maintaining perplexity and downstream performance. The method is architecture‑agnostic, adds less than 3% computational overhead, and can be integrated into existing training pipelines.

By Zhijian Li, Stefan Larson, Kevin Leach