One Size Does Not Fit All: Setting Inference Depth from the Questions a Deployment Actually Asks
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The paper investigates whether small models distilled from larger ones behave similarly when using byte versus token tokenization. It introduces two methods—Marginalize‑It (approximate) and End‑Of‑Token (exact)—to convert token logits to byte logits, and conducts a large‑scale study on decoder‑only dense transformers ranging from 1 billion to 1 trillion bytes of data. Results show that while token‑based models excel early, byte‑based models eventually surpass them with more compute, achieving higher performance ceilings, greater data efficiency, and lower logit storage costs.
PROOF is a benchmark that profiles the reliability of object-level facts in instruction-tuned language models by converting a frozen Wikidata snapshot into 18,486 English multiple-choice questions grounded in 11,779 semantic facts across 101 classes, 392 properties, and 14 domains. Each question includes an explicit "I don't know" option, a "No correct option" control, and nine controlled formulations, with 1,849 questions designed as no-correct-option traps. The study evaluates 18 open-weight model deployments on 166,374 prompts, revealing wide variability in factual accuracy, sensitivity to wording changes, and the impact of decoder perturbations.