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Character sets such as Chinese and Japanese appear less frequently in training sets dominated by English corpora, and often consume 1–2 tokens per character.
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VerifiedFor English, 1 token corresponds to approximately 4 characters or 0.75 words; for Chinese, 1 Chinese character typically consumes 1–2 tokens.80% similarUnverifiedDue to the mixed use of kanji and kana, strict honorific hierarchies, and differences between spoken and written language, Japanese places extremely high demands on the quality and diversity of training data.76% similarUnverifiedMainstream BPE tokenizers have far lower token efficiency for CJK languages than for English, and the same content may require 2 to 3 times as many tokens as in English.76% similarUnverified新一代分词器通常能以更少的Token表达相同语义信息，对代码及中文、日文等非拉丁语言处理效率更高75% similar
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