Papers with lightweight architectural modification
The Strawberry Problem: Emergence of Character-level Understanding in Tokenized Language Models (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Large Language Models fail at simple character-level tasks due to low mutual information, study finds . authors propose a lightweight architectural modification that improves character- level reasoning . |
| Approach: | They propose a lightweight architectural modification that improves character-level reasoning while preserving the inductive advantages of subword models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves character-level reasoning while preserving the advantages of subword models. |