Language, speech & LLMs· 2018
SentencePiece: A simple and language independent subword tokenizer and detokenizer for Neural Text Processing
DOI 10.18653/v1/d18-2012arXiv 1808.06226OpenAlex W2885185669
On the reading lists
- #336 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #52 in Language, speech & LLMs (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Enabled language-independent subword tokenization directly from raw text at scale.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2018 (from arXiv 1808.06226)
- Citations
- 4,363 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.420 · computed rank 336 · consensus 0.66, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.633 (2010s · language), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
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