Research paper
Bolmo: Byteifying the Next Generation of Language Models
Research paper by Benjamin Minixhofer and collaborators. Published 2025-12-17. Topics: byte-level language models, subword-level LMs, byteification, character understanding, exact distillation objective.
Benjamin Minixhofer, Tyler Murray, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Anna Korhonen, Luke Zettlemoyer, Noah A. Smith, Edoardo M. Ponti, Luca Soldaini, Valentin Hofmann
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