Question about the tokenizer

#3
by FlameF0X - opened

Why is the BOS token removed?

Axiomic Labs org

Good question,
I did a bit of research into the impacts of a BOS, while useful as an attention sink, without it models learn to simply use the 1st token as said sink without any real loss penalty, thus it was decided to remove it

Datdanboi25 changed discussion status to closed

Aah, yeah, makes sense

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