karpathy/minbpe - 10.4k Stars · Global Rank #4880

Global Rank#4880Apr 16, 2026

since Feb 2024

karpathy/minbpe

Minimal, clean code for the Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm commonly used in LLM tokenization.

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