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Tokenisation

Breaking text into chunks for LLM processing

Short definition

The process of breaking down text into chunks ("tokens") that are used as inputs by LLMs.

Definition

Definition

The process of breaking down text into chunks ("tokens") that are used as inputs by LLMs. The phrase "AI is smart" becomes four tokens: "AI", "is", "smart", and punctuation.