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Comments on No. 50 of 109 · Wenhao Chai · edition of Friday 6 November 2026

Larger Tokenizers Suffer More Multi-Epoch Regret

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A study on the Marin tokenizer finds that multi-epoch regret, the validation-loss gap between an 8-epoch run on one eighth of the text and a 1-epoch run on unique text, rises with vocabulary size.

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