Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42844478›Full record

ArticleNature2026

Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes.

Benjamin Minixhofer, Tyler Murray, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Anna Korhonen, Luke Zettlemoyer, Noah A Smith, Edoardo M Ponti, Luca Soldaini, Valentin Hofmann

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Benjamin MinixhoferAllen Institute for AI, Seattle, WA, USA. bm644@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6520-4245
Tyler MurrayAllen Institute for AI, Seattle, WA, USA.
Tomasz LimisiewiczUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Anna KorhonenLanguage Technology Lab, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Luke ZettlemoyerUniversity of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Noah A SmithAllen Institute for AI, Seattle, WA, USA.
Edoardo M PontiImperial College London, London, UK.
Luca SoldainiAllen Institute for AI, Seattle, WA, USA.
Valentin HofmannAllen Institute for AI, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6603-3428

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have largely been driven by large language models, deep neural networks that operate over discrete units called tokens. To represent text, most large language models use words or word fragments as the tokens, known as subword tokenization

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PMID42844478

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