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  "title": "Tokenizer Expansion for Multilingual LLMs",
  "dek": "An abstract-grounded analysis of an in-place recipe that expands a pre-trained LLM tokenizer, preserves source tokens, and reduces multilingual token fragmentation.",
  "summary": "In-place tokenizer expansion cuts multilingual token fragmentation while preserving source tokens in a pre-trained LLM.",
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      "What is in-place tokenizer expansion for LLMs?",
      "Why can fixed LLM tokenizers hurt later-added languages?",
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      "How are embeddings initialized for new tokens?",
      "How does the method recover source-checkpoint quality?",
      "How much faster is decoding after expansion?",
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        "name": "Vietnamese",
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        "name": "Thai",
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      "External background: BPE-style subword tokenization",
      "External background: multilingual vocabulary allocation",
      "External background: tokenizer replacement strategies",
      "External background: byte-level and token-free modeling",
      "External background: embedding transfer during vocabulary changes"
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      "Multilingual customer support",
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