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In English, approximately every 4 characters form 1 Token, and OpenAI uses the BPE (Byte Pair Encoding) algorithm to map high-frequency words to single Tokens.
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VerifiedTokens are generated by the BPE (Byte Pair Encoding) algorithm; in English text, each token corresponds on average to approximately 4 characters (about 0.75 words).85% similarUnverifiedA token is the smallest unit of measurement for text processed by a model; OpenAI uses the BPE algorithm to encode high-frequency character combinations as single tokens, with approximately 75 English words equaling roughly 100 tokens.83% similarUnverified现代 LLM 通常使用字节对编码（BPE）或类似算法进行分词，英文中平均约 4 个字符对应 1 个 Token78% similarUnverifiedOpenAI 使用基于字节对编码（BPE）的 tiktoken 分词器将文本切分为 Token76% similar
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